One of the most important questions facing humanity is “how can we structure our interactions to that the choices of individual people and organizations are not incompatible with the welfare of society?” We confront this challenge in our everyday social interactions and in how institutions such as governments and businesses interact with each other. Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons provided a framework for understanding how and when people can construct self-governing institutions for common property resources. This book takes a similar approach to provide a framework for understanding how and when companies can produce win–win interactions with their stakeholders by improving their environmental performance. The chapter includes with acknowledgements.

The one feature of a paper that needs to draw attention of potential readers is its Title. The importance of this being very carefully worded is stressed. The chapter also covers the small sections of a paper that give information about the authors, their affiliations, which author is dealing with correspondence, the contributions of co-authors, any conflicts of interest, who to acknowledge and how to prepare reference lists. It mentions how in this electronic age papers can be tagged using a 'DOI'.

The preface describes how the book came about and its objectives. The aim is to illuminate the process of discovery in physics and how the discipline really works through a number of case studies in key areas of classical and early quantum physics. The case studies span the whole of classical physics and bring out the connections between the different strands of the subject. The book is a revised and updated version of the first and second editions, with three new chapters and additional insights in all chapters.