Corporate Social Responsibility and Alcohol: The Need and Potential for Partnership (2005)

Edited by Marcus Grant and Joyce O'Connor, this volume explores the potential impact of beverage alcohol industry partnerships and how they could contribute to a reduction in the negative health impacts of harmful drinking patterns. The book addresses the following themes: corporate values and collaboration; definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR); CSR in the context of product safety and risk; perspectives on CSR and partnership in the beverage alcohol industry; and CSR and partnership in practice. This book draws on presentations made during an international conference on Alcohol, Ethics, and Society, held at the national College of Ireland in Dublin, and incorporates additional contributions form legal experts, health officials, and representatives of the beverage alcohol industry. Corporate Social Responsibility and Alcohol is the eighth volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society.

(ISBN 0415949483)

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Reasonable Risk: Alcohol in Perspective (2004)

Written by Marjana Martinic and Barbara Leigh, this book examines the aura of risk surrounding alcohol consumption. In many ways, the risks inherent in drinking are no different from those we willingly encounter as part of many other activities. The authors explore what shapes our perceptions of risk, including the influence of culture, and how we assess and manage the risks around us, especially those relating to alcohol. The book discusses how these risks are communicated to the public and addressed through policy. Reasonable Risk is the seventh volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society.

(ISBN 0415946360)

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Moonshine Markets: Issues in Unrecorded Alcohol Beverage Production and Consumption (2004)

It is estimated that “local alcohol”—sometimes called moonshine, noncommercial, illicit, illegal or unrecorded alcohol—may account for as much as 50% of total alcohol consumption worldwide. Yet this area of alcohol studies has been neglected in the research community, due, in part, to the difficulty in collecting data for a product that is largely illegal. Edited by Alan Haworth and Ronald Simpson, this book presents data from six countries in which local alcohol is widely produced and consumed: Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania and Zambia. Each country study provides a rich review of the varied customs and rituals surrounding noncommercial alcohol, its history, cultural significance, legal and socioeconomic framework of its production and consumption and implications for public health, policy and the beverage alcohol industry. The book also examines the common themes emerging from the collected data, including commentary from experts in the fields of toxicology, economics, and anthropology. Moonshine Markets is the sixth volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society.

(ISBN 0415935474)

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Learning About Drinking (2001)

Eleni Houghton and Anne Roche edited this study of the many societal influences on today's youth and the varied ways in which they experience and are introduced into the drinking culture worldwide. Religious, educational, social, and parental roles are discussed among others, along with suggestions for more effective guidance. Learning about Drinking is the fifth volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society. The Executive Summary of this book is also available in French and Spanish. (ISBN 1583913165)

In conjunction with the publication of this book, ICAP has also gathered and published a series of “Learning About Drinking” Letters, written by individuals in the alcohol-studies field worldwide, addressed to young people and offering advice about alcohol.

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Drinking Occasions (2000)

Written by Dwight Heath, this book is the outgrowth of nearly 40 years of the author's research on drinking practices and years of concern about national and international policies as they relate to this part of human culture. Drinking Occasions observes the diversity of normal drinking behavior and the largely beneficial drinking patterns, demonstrating how drinking behavior is not an isolated phenomenon, but integrated with a wide range of other human activities. This book is the fourth volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society. The executive summary of Drinking Occasions is also available in French, Japanese, and Spanish. A Japanese-language edition of this book was published in 2001.

(ISBN 1583910476)

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Alcohol and Pleasure: A Health Perspective (1999)

Edited by Stanton Peele and Marcus Grant, this book explores the role of pleasure in alcohol consumption and its consequences for the health of individuals and for society as a whole. The book is based on discussion generated at an international conference, Permission for Pleasure, held in New York City in June 1998. Alcohol and Pleasure is the third volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society.  The executive summary of Alcohol and Pleasure is also available in French and Spanish.

(ISBN 1583910158)

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Alcohol and Emerging Markets: Patterns, Problems, and Responses (1998)

The second volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society, edited by Marcus Grant, provides a current, objective, and comprehensive assessment of drinking practices and alcohol misuse in areas of the world undergoing major socioeconomic changes. This book offers a series of case studies that assess alcohol issues in four regions (Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa) and four countries (China, India, Mexico, and Russia),  considers the role of the beverage alcohol industry in emerging markets, and suggests a set of guidelines that address alcohol misuse issues. The Executive Summary of Alcohol and Emerging Markets is also available in French and Spanish.

(ISBN 0876309783)

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Drinking Patterns and Their Consequences (1998)

Alcohol policies in many countries have long been based on the assumption that a wide range of health and social problems associated with the abuse of alcohol can be directly correlated with average daily per capita alcohol consumption. Edited by Marcus Grant and Jorge Litvak, the first volume in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society proposes a new comprehensive theoretical framework that focuses instead on drinking patterns and their role as predictors of risks or benefits associated with drinking. The authors explore the implications of such a paradigm shift for the shaping of research, prevention, and more sensitive national alcohol policies. The Executive Summary of Alcohol and Emerging Markets is also available in French and Spanish.

(ISBN 156032189)

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