Handbook Of Sustainability Management
Handbook Of Sustainability Management

Author: Christian N Madu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012-03-26

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 9814458708

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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.

Sustainability Management Handbook
Sustainability Management Handbook

Author: Shirley J. Hansen

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 8770222894

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A strong sustainability program requires leadership to draw on a solid knowledge base, manage resources wisely, identify sustainability opportunities, make difficult choices, and accept the challenge to lead, influence, and persuade colleagues. This book cuts through the hyperbole and offers practical steps for protecting the world around us. Rich in case studies, it addresses a range of critical stewardship issues. Developed out of a keen desire to protect the planet, the text helps management transform important information and critical leadership skills into socially responsible operations.

The Sustainability Handbook
The Sustainability Handbook

Author: William R. Blackburn

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 1849773297

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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.

Handbook on the Business of Sustainability
Handbook on the Business of Sustainability

Author: Yousafzai, Shumaila

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-02-11

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 1839105348

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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.

Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency
Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency

Author: Teerikangas, Satu

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1789906032

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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.

Handbook of Sustainability-Driven Business Strategies in Practice
Handbook of Sustainability-Driven Business Strategies in Practice

Author: Markovic, Stefan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1789908353

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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.

Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability
Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability

Author: Akkucuk, Ulas

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1466697245

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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.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability
The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability

Author: Robert Brinkmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 883

ISBN-13: 3319713892

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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.

Handbook of Corporate Sustainability
Handbook of Corporate Sustainability

Author: M. A. Quaddus

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1849807949

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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.

Handbook of Environmental Management and Technology
Handbook of Environmental Management and Technology

Author: Gwendolyn Burke

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Published: 2004-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780471722373

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Learn how to respond to the complex problems encountered in environmental management Highlighting all aspects of the spectrum of environmental control, this text provides a historical perspective on pollution problems and solutions, and offers an introduction to the specialized literature in this and related areas. It includes: Introduction to the issues Air pollution management issues Water pollution management issues Solid and radioactive waste management issues Hazardous waste management issues Pollution prevention Additional environmental concerns and management considerations New technologies and approaches Risk-related topics Recent developments Appendices