Flexibility, Resilience and Sustainability
Author: Sushil
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9819995507
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Flexibility, Resilience and Sustainability
Author: Sushil
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2024-03-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789819995493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses initiatives intended to promote strategic flexibility, resilience, sustainability, and information system flexibility and analytics, through AI, HR analytics, employee attrition using perspectives from machine learning, agile competencies, agile organization, digital recruitment, e-governance, cyber security controls, and cyber security risk management. It explores areas such as banking system, medical tourism, pharmaceutical industry, defense sector, online shopping, to name some. It brings different perspectives on how to improve the resilience of human resources in organizations through employee engagement, exploration, experimentation, and so on, to create sustainable organizations. There is also some focus on innovation and environmental sustainability concerns, co-worker support, exploring the linkages, and in one case, culture essentials for Industry 5.0. Divided into three parts, covering a range of topics, contexts, and methods used to understand the relevant issues in flexibility, resilience, and sustainability, thes book is a useful addition to the literature on the topic as well as a practical resource for practitioners. It will be a useful resource for a variety of audiences such as management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.
Resilient by Design
Author: Joseph Fiksel
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1610915879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Resilient by design provides managers with a more complete approach to creating lasting success in a changing world. Rich with examples and case studies, it explains how to connect the external systems, stakeholders, communities, infrastructure, supply chains, and natural resources, to create innovative organisations that survive and prosper." --Publisher description.
Retrofitting the City
Author: Stefan Bouzarovski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-11-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1786739992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City provides an important corrective to the assumptions that have been made concerning the ability of people and places to cope with such residential transformation. Drawing upon case studies from a number of European cities that have undergone far-reaching change in their built environments, the author shows that supposedly inadaptable people and places show a strong, if often hidden, degree of flexibility in responding to economic change and building transformation."
The Purpose of Capital
Author: Jed Emerson
Publisher:
Published: 2018-09-24
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781732453104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of our understanding of the purpose of capital and the cultural, historic and environmental aspects of how we have come to understand the relation between economic, social and environmental components of capital. Offers a vision of capital as a fuel to promote individual freedom in the context of community and Earth.
Flexibility, Innovation, and Sustainable Business
Author: Ramesh Anbanandam
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789811916984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains practical experiences, knowledge, and insights in the evolution, formulation, and implementation of strategies and models for flexibility, innovation, and sustainable business. The book discussed the increasing significance of a flexible approach by businesses as much as possible in every area of their work-from employment policies to supply chain management (SCM). It further links this flexible approach to a sustainability strategy, which is necessary to be competitive today and in the future. This business approach is necessary to create long-term value by considering how a given organization operates in the ecological, social, and economic environment. This is linked to the next theme of the book-innovation-which is fundamental for a business to improve its processes, develop new and improved products and services for the market, increase its efficiency, and, most importantly, get better profitability. The book also delves into another buzz word in business-analytics. Companies have widely embraced the use of analytics to streamline operations and improve processes. The book explores all these critical emerging areas through the chapters in its five sections and is invaluable for management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, professional institutions, and government and corporate organizations.
Resilience
Author: Andrew Zolli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1451683812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll systems break down. Some bounce back, others do not. This is a book about why. Covering business, economic, geographic and social systems, Zolli uncovers a wealth of absorbing examples--from the link between US oil prices and the recent 'tortilla riots' in Mexico to what was really happening when the U.S. government decided not to bail out Lehman Bros.
Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities
Author: Norsidah Ujang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-18
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 3030635678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the ways in which resiliency can foster the transformation of cities. There is a growing need for our cities to be transformed into “smart” cities; in this regard, tremendous efforts are called for in order to face the environmental challenges that play a major role in the creation or transformation of cities and environments. This book covers a broad range of applications and approaches that are “smart” and “resilient,” which, when combined, offer much more flexibility concerning the future of our cities. Consequently, this simple combination, which is producing sweeping changes around the globe, has attracted considerable attention from scholars and decision-makers alike.
Strategic Resilience and Sustainability Planning
Author: Haris Alibašić
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-02-21
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 3030911594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines management strategies for developing and implementing strategic resilience and sustainability plans for sustainable and climate-resilient communities and organizations. It examines trends in resilience and sustainability planning, highlighting best practices and case studies. The book explores Quadruple Bottom Line strategies and methods to implement resilience and sustainability-related initiatives in organizations and communities. It also examines diverse perspectives on climate resilience, climate preparedness and readiness, greenhouse gas emission reductions policies, climate adaptation and mitigation, disaster preparedness and readiness, and sustainable energy policies and projects. Additionally, the book offers insights on strategic resilience and sustainability planning during a pandemic as well as private sector perspectives on strategic resilience and sustainability. In chapter one, the author presents expanded definitions of strategic resilience and sustainability as well as mechanisms reshaping communities and organizations. Chapter two examines strategic planning processes for communities and organizations and lays out planning steps. Chapter three offers insights into community and organizational level engagement, looking at internal and external stakeholders, organizers, partners, collaborators, and implementers of distinct stages of strategic resilience and sustainability planning. Chapter four outlines measurements and tactics to track and improve strategic resilience and sustainability reporting mechanisms using the quadruple bottom line strategy. It offers a resilience progress report to ensure accountability, answerability, transparency, and good governance. Chapter five details the implementation of a strategic resilience and sustainability plan, describing programs and initiatives to achieve resilient and sustainable communities and organizations. Chapter six extensively examines the theoretical and practical intersection between climate change, resilience, and sustainability. Chapter seven reviews resources available for strategic resilience and sustainability plans to aid communities and organizations. Chapter eight assesses the current and future state of resilience and sustainability in communities and organizations, including concerns surrounding climate change, pandemics, disaster resilience, and emergency management and preparedness.
Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities
Author: Paolo Gasparini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 3319043161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as terrorist attacks or accidents. Furthermore, due to increasing technological complexity of urban areas, along with increasing population density, cities are becoming more and more risk attractors. The resilience of cities against catastrophic events is a major challenge of today. It requires city transformation processes to be rethought, to mitigate the effects of extreme events on the vital functions of cities and communities. Redundancy and robustness of the components of the urban fabric are essential to restore the full efficiency of the city's vital functions after an extreme event has taken place. These items were addressed by an interdisciplinary and international selection of scientists during the 6th UN-World Urban Forum that was held in Naples, Italy in September 2012. This volume represents in six chapters the views from sociologists, economists and scientists working on natural risk and physical vulnerability on resilience and sustainability for future cities in relation to natural disasters.
