Download or read book Handbook Of Sustainability Management written by Christian N Madu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is about the effective management of nonrenewable and nonreplenishable natural resources. These resources are limited and critical to maintaining ecological balance. A collective effort is required to balance our socio-economic needs with environmental needs. This could be achieved by re-evaluating policies and actions as to how they affect the environment. Sustainability requires changes in traditional practices of doing things and refocusing ourselves to the needs of the earth. This handbook explores the role of sustainability in achieving social development, environmental protection, and economic development. These three areas constitute what is referred to as the triple bottom line (TBL). Sustainability management may help organizations and their global supply networks to re-evaluate their policies, processes, programs, and projects in terms of triple bottom line. Sustainability helps to facilitate planning, implementing, reviewing, and improving an organization's actions and operations to meet ecological goals.

Download or read book The Sustainability Handbook written by William R. Blackburn and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries of sustainability codes and tips on selecting them, an extensive collection of metrics and a wealth of supplementary reference material. This is the essential reference for every organization in pursuit of sustainability.

Download or read book Sustainability Management written by Rüdiger Hahn and published by Rüdiger Hahn. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by mega trends such as climate change, migration, globalization, or population development, sustainable development and sustainability management have now become vital areas of concern for almost all firms. This textbook provides comprehensive knowledge on sustainability management to reduce costs and risks, increase reputation and legitimacy, generate competitive advantages, and advance the sustainable development of companies and society. The book covers not only the concepts of sustainable development and sustainability management but also the relevant instruments and tools used in all essential management domains such as marketing, accounting, supply chain management, innovation management, and many others. Furthermore, this sustainability management textbook employs an extensive stakeholder perspective to illuminate the influence of various actors, such as employees, customers, investors, or governmental/non-governmental organizations. FEATURES Faces of sustainability: These features introduce thought leaders in sustainability from all areas of society. - Sustainability in business: These features provide examples of sustainability and unsustainability in business practice from all over the world. Sustainability in business: These features provide examples of sustainabity and unsustainability in business practice. Sustainability in society: These features illustrate practical challenges, ideas, and concepts of sustainability from a societal point of view. Sustainability in research: These features give a recap on seminal research articles on different aspects of sustainability management. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL The book is supported by an extensive range of online resources for students and course instructors that can be accessed via https://sustainabilitymanagementbook.com/ PRAISE "One of the leading scholars on sustainable business takes the classroom into the 21st century. A must-read for students, executives, and thought leaders interested in the management of sustainability." Dirk Matten (Schulich School of Business) "This is more than a textbook. It’s a handbook for anyone who is interested in sustainability from the most to the least sophisticated." Robert G. Eccles (Founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) "A wonderful, timely, and badly needed resource for instructors. The text is both very current and built on a flexible framework. In the dynamic, unfolding field of sustainability management, this is an essential quality." Michael V. Russo (University of Oregon) "The book is highly timely and succeeds in achieving an excellent balance between the big picture of sustainability management and the necessary level of detail. Great help for teachers and students alike!" Minna Halme (Aalto University School of Business) "Finally, a book fully focused on sustainability management! This book gives an excellent overview of the strategic and operational dimensions of making sustainability a reality in contemporary business." Jonatan Pinkse (The University of Manchester) "Cutting edge, innovative, and comprehensive, Rüdiger Hahn sets the standard for the next generation of texts that address the most important challenges facing business today." Andrew Crane (University of Bath) "Sustainability management can only be comprehensive when it allows for tensions, and thoroughly considers the perspective of the Global South. This textbook presents the reader with tools to enable them to deal with tensions, and will be helpful to both decision-makers and communities in raising awareness of the importance of diverse perspectives." Edeltraud Günther (United Nations University)

Download or read book Handbook on the Business of Sustainability written by Yousafzai, Shumaila and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability written by Akkucuk, Ulas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is a growing area of research in ecology, economics, environmental science, business, and cultural studies. Specifically, sustainable waste disposal and management is a growing concern as both solid and liquid wastes are rapidly expanding in direct correlation with population growth and improved economic conditions across regions. The Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability explores the topic of sustainable development in an era where domestic and municipal waste is becoming a concern for both human and environmental health. Highlighting a number of topics relating to pollution, green initiatives, and waste reduction in both the public and private sector, this research-based publication is designed for use by environmental scientists, business executives, researchers, graduate-level students, and policymakers seeking the latest information on sustainability in business, medicine, agriculture, and society.

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Download or read book Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency written by Teerikangas, Satu and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organisations can make a difference towards sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active, organisational and relational forms of sustainability agency, demonstrating the capacity of individuals and organisations to act toward sustainable futures.

Download or read book Handbook of Corporate Sustainability written by M. A. Quaddus and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving corporate sustainability (CS) is one of the most difficult challenges facing organizations in the twenty-first century. This comprehensive Handbook examines the current status and future direction of sustainability frameworks and applications in the corporate environment. Internationally reputed scholars portray the frameworks of CS practices in contemporary businesses. They explore in detail these frameworks and the associated computer-based modelling tools that companies are using, or can use, to aid their decision-making with regards to CS and corporate social responsibility practices. The contributors expertly investigate the future direction of model-based applications in CS as well as related planning processes. This innovative and informative Handbook will provide a timely reminder to scholars, government agencies, international bodies, academics and practitioners that appropriate decision-making and a correct understanding of these complex problems are essential to the success of CS planning.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability written by Robert Brinkmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of sustainability through a diverse range of case studies spanning across varied fields and areas of expertise. It provides a clear indication as to the contemporary state of sustainability in a time faced by issues such as global climate change, challenges of environmental justice, economic globalization and environmental contamination. The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability explores three broad themes: Environmental Sustainability, Social Sustainability and Economic Sustainability. The authors critically explore these themes and provide insight into their linkages with one another to demonstrate the substantial efforts currently underway to address the sustainability of our planet. This handbook is an important contribution to the best practises on sustainability, drawn from many different examples across the fields of engineering, geology, anthropology, sociology, biology, chemistry and religion.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Sustainability in the Digital Era written by Seung Ho Park and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses the intersection between corporate sustainability and digital transformation. It analyzes the challenges and transformations required to be able to have sustainable businesses with a future orientation. Topics include current and potential social, demographic, technological, and managerial trends; the implications of the digital revolution in society and business; as well as the challenges of being sustainable, and profitable. Providing an understanding of the business reasons to incorporate a future orientation into the business strategy, this handbook facilitates an understanding of the need for profound changes in individual behavior, organizational culture, public policy, and business environments to adapt to the accelerated changes and manage business with orientation to the future.

Download or read book Handbook of Sustainability in Management Education written by Jorge A. Arevalo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook strives to enhance knowledge and application within sustainability in management education (SiME) across different academic programs, geographic regions and personal/professional contexts. Cross-disciplinary and boundary-spanning, this book focuses on specific themes and is therefore split into four distinct sections: one on theory and practice, one on transformational interventions in business programs, one on the role of external agents and the last on innovative approaches in SiME.

Download or read book Environmental Management Systems written by Christopher Sheldon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Handbook of Sustainability Driven Business Strategies in Practice written by Markovic, Stefan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is a top priority for organizations and a key strategy in corporate agendas, but the effective deployment of any strategy demands that the strategy is consistent, functional, and aligned. This Handbook advocates sustainability strategies that encompass environmental, social, and economic dimensions at department-level.

Download or read book The Step by step Guide to Sustainability Planning written by Darcy E. Hitchcock and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book The Business Student s Guide to Sustainable Management written by Petra Molthan-Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management has become a core textbook for business undergraduates. With a full introduction to sustainable management, the textbook covers all subject areas relevant to business students. This second edition features fully updated chapters on how to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into accounting, marketing, HR and other subjects in management and business studies. Furthermore, this second edition offers brand new chapters on how to teach the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in any business discipline, how to explore new business models designed to support sustainable development and how to crowdsource for sustainable solutions. The book contains over 40 ready-made seminars/short workshops which enable teachers and students to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into every discipline in business, including economics, operations, marketing, HR, and financial reporting. Each chapter follows the same easy-to-use format. The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management provides a true treasure chest of materials to support staff wanting to integrate sustainability into their teaching and provides support to effectively embed sustainability in the curriculum. The chapters also offer a starting point in developing teaching units for Masters and MBA students. The material is not just useful to people in business schools, but to those involved in wider scale curriculum change, and those looking to make links between different disciplines (for example, how to teach system thinking, corporate peace-making and the crowdsourcing of sustainable solutions). Online Teaching Notes to accompany each chapter are available on request with the purchase of the book.

Download or read book Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management written by Francesco Colangelo and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management summarizes key research trends in recycling and reusing concrete and industrial waste to reduce their environmental impact. This volume also includes important contributions in collaboration with the CRI-TEST Innovation Lab, Naples – Acerra. Part one discusses eco-friendly innovative cement and concrete and reviews key substitute materials. Part two analyzes the use of industrial waste as aggregates and the mechanical properties of concrete containing waste materials. Part three discusses differences between innovative binders, focusing on alkali-activated and geopolymer concrete. Part four provides a thorough overview of the life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete containing industrial wastes and the impacts related to the logistics of wastes, the production of the concrete, and the management of industrial wastes. By providing research examples, case studies, and practical strategies, this book is a state-of-the-art reference for researchers working in construction materials, civil or structural engineering, and engineers working in the industry. - Offers a systematic and comprehensive source of information on the latest developments in sustainable concrete; - Analyzes different types of sustainable concrete and innovative binders from chemical, physical, and mechanical points of view; - Includes real case studies showing application of the LCA methodology.

Download or read book Corporate Sustainability Management written by Mark W. McElroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses around the world are increasingly turning to an exciting new branch of management known as corporate sustainability management (CSM) to help them better understand and manage their non-financial performance. Indeed, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the birth of a new management function. The main pillar of CSM is the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), which has been successful as an organizing principle but a disappointment in practice. This is largely due to the absence of 'sustainability context' in related measurement, management and reporting efforts, when for example the monitoring of a company's use of freshwater resources fails to take into account the size of related supplies. This book is the first to introduce a systematic means of including context in sustainability management and doing effective CSM. After making the case for why context matters, the book explains how to do context-based CSM by providing a stepwise, cyclical blueprint for how to practice it in any organization. This includes a template for context-based metrics compatible with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), as well as specific examples of metrics for each of the triple bottom lines. Practical examples of best practices are presented throughout, while simultaneously addressing key issues, such as how organizations can measure performance against context-based standards when consensus for such standards does not yet exist. Appendices include tools for developing and applying context-based metrics, as well as case studies taken from the practice of context-based CSM at two companies in the United States. This guide is the essential tool for business and organizational leaders in all sectors committed to improving their sustainability performance, with a particular emphasis on measurement, management and reporting.