John has been a primary author of around 40 reports
Publications
Reports
John has been a primary author of around 40 reports
My first published report, co-authored with John Roberts and Roger McGlynn, appeared in 1976. At the time, we were focusing on a range of issues like improving the pedestrian's environment and the provision of urban air quality and waste services. The diversity of subjects on which we have produced reports since is mind-boggling. The latest, published in the summer of 2003, focuses on the challenges now facing NGOs, which have done so much to drive the agenda over recent decades. Several more reports are in preparation.
2004
Risk
& Opportunity: Best Practice in Non-Financial Reporting
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Standard
& Poor's.
ISBN 1-903168-12-0
2003
The
21st Century NGO: In the Market for Change
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN
Global Compact, the International Finance Corporation and others.
ISBN 1903168082
2002
Trust
Us: The Global Reporters 2002 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 1903168066
2002
Good
News & Bad: The Media, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable
Development
SustainAbility with Ketchum and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 190316804X
2001
Buried
Treasure: Uncovering the Business Case for Corporate Sustainable Development
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 1903168023
2001
Driving
Sustainability: Can the Auto Sector Deliver Sustainable Mobility?
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 1903168031
2000
The Global Reporters: The First International Benchmark Survey
of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 1903168015
2000
Life & Science: Accountability, Transparency, Citizenship
and Governance in the Life Sciences Sector
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 1903168007
1999
The
Oil Sector Report: A Review of Environmental Disclosure in the Oil Industry
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 0952190494
1999
The
Internet Reporting Report: "The network economy is founded on technology,
but it can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with
trust"
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 0952190451
1999
The
Social Reporting Report
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), sponsored
by Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
ISBN 0952190427
1998
The
CEO Agenda: Can Business Leaders Satisfy the Triple Bottom Line?
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 0952190478
1998
The
Non-Reporting Report
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 0952190486
1997
Strange Attractor: The Business-ENGO partnership
A Strategic Review of BP's Relationships with Environmental NGOs, SustainAbility
for BP
1997
The
1997 Benchmark Survey: Third International Progress Report on Company Environmental
Reporting
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 095219046X
1996
Engaging
Stakeholders: The Case Studies
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 0952190443
1996
Engaging
Stakeholders: The Benchmark Survey
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN 0952190435
1995
Who Needs It? Market Implications of Sustainable
Lifestyles
SustainAbility with Dow Chemical.
ISBN 0952190419
1994
Company Environmental Reporting: A Measure of the Progress of Business and
Industry towards Sustainable Development
SustainAbility with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
UNEP IE Technical Report 24
1993
Coming Clean: Corporate Environmental Reporting -
Opening Up for Sustainable Development
SustainAbility with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International (DTTI) and the
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
ISBN 0942640039
1993
The LCA Sourcebook: A European Business Guide to
Life-Cycle Assessment
SustainAbility with the Society for the Promotion of LCA Development (SPOLD)
and Business in the Environment (BiE).
ISBN 0952190400
1990
Automotive Polymers and the Environment: Issues and
Views in Europe
SustainAbility with Dow Plastics
1990
The Green Wave: A Report on the 1990 GreenWorld Survey
SustainAbility sponsored by British Gas, London
1989
Cleaning Up: US Waste Management Technology and Third
World Development
With Jonathan Shopley, for the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington,
DC.
ISBN 0915825287
1988
The Shrinking Planet: US Information Technology and
Sustainable Development
With Jonathan Shopley, for the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington,
DC.
ISBN 0915825201
1987
Thailand Natural Resources Profile: Is the Resource
Base for Thailand's Developement Sustainable?
Co-editor with Dr Dhira Phantumvanit, for the Thailand Development Research
Institute (TDRI), the National Environment Board, the Department of Technical
and Economic Co-operation and the US Agency for International Development
(USAID)
1986
Double Dividends? US Biotechnology and Third World
Development
For the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, DC.
ISBN 0915825163
1986
Nature Conservation Guidelines for Onshore Oil and
Gas Development
John Elkington Associates for Nature Conservancy Council and BP.
ISBN 0861393465
1985
Bio-Japan: The Emerging Japanese Challenge in Biotechnology
John Elkington, Oyez Scientific & Technical Services, London.
ISBN 0907822525
1983
The Conservation and Development Programme for the
UK: A response to the World Conservation Strategy
Kogan Page, London.
ISBN 085038768X
1983
Cleaner Technologies: Making Pollution Prevention
Pay
Oyez Scientific & Technical Services, London
1981
Pollution 1990: The Environmental Implications of
Britain's Industrial Structure and Technologies
Environmental Data Services (ENDS), London, for the Department of the Environment.
ISBN 0907673007
1980
Environmental Impact Assessment
Oyez Publishing, London.
ISBN ISBN 0851205488
1978
Europe 1990: Patterns of Environmental Protection
and Planning
John Elkington and John Roberts, for Hudson Research Europe, Paris
1976
The Pedestrian: Planning and Research
John Elkington, Roger McGlynn and John Roberts, Transport and Environment
Studies (TEST), London.
ISBN 090554501X