Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1 (eBook)

The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation

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2024 | 1. Auflage
508 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-323-90111-6 (ISBN)

The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability. The private sector must find new ways of doing business to align practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using a conceptually structured framework throughout, the book examines the latest academic research to summarize what environmental, social, and economic sustainability means in different contexts.Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into the organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption, and lifecycle management. Volume 1 explores the concept of Substantial Sustainability Innovation within an enterprise and why it is important. It clarifies the difference between environmental, social and governance aspects of sustainability and how they relate to each other. With examples from local sourcing to C02 reduction, business ethics to sustainability portfolio management, green business process management to gender diversity, this volume explores how you can use sustainability to innovate and identifies which components to use to build an effective sustainable strategy.For researchers, students, and businesspeople at all levels and sectors, this handbook is an essential reference of the latest sustainability tools and methodologies required to adapt and innovate towards sustainability. - Provides step-by-step guidance on key procedures and methodologies - Presents chapters that begin with a graphical representation of how the topic fits within the larger framework - Includes extensive coverage of sustainability-related case studies and lessons learned

The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability. The private sector must find new ways of doing business to align practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using a conceptually structured framework throughout, the book examines the latest academic research to summarize what environmental, social, and economic sustainability means in different contexts.Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into the organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption, and lifecycle management. Volume 1 explores the concept of Substantial Sustainability Innovation within an enterprise and why it is important. It clarifies the difference between environmental, social and governance aspects of sustainability and how they relate to each other. With examples from local sourcing to C02 reduction, business ethics to sustainability portfolio management, green business process management to gender diversity, this volume explores how you can use sustainability to innovate and identifies which components to use to build an effective sustainable strategy.For researchers, students, and businesspeople at all levels and sectors, this handbook is an essential reference of the latest sustainability tools and methodologies required to adapt and innovate towards sustainability. - Provides step-by-step guidance on key procedures and methodologies- Presents chapters that begin with a graphical representation of how the topic fits within the larger framework- Includes extensive coverage of sustainability-related case studies and lessons learned

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2024
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-323-90111-5 / 0323901115
ISBN-13	978-0-323-90111-6 / 9780323901116

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