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An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management

Author : Dibyendu Sarkar

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 622 pages

File Size : 44,49 MB

Release : 2015-09-30

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1118744284

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Book Description

Covers the most recent topics in the field of environmental management and provides a broad focus on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of environmental management Provides an up-to-date survey of the field from the perspective of different disciplines Covers the topic of environmental management from multiple perspectives, namely, natural sciences, engineering, business, social sciences, and methods and tools perspectives Combines both academic rigor and practical approach through literature reviews and theories and examples and case studies from diverse geographic areas and policy domains Explores local and global issues of environmental management and analyzes the role of various contributors in the environmental management process Chapter contents are appropriately demonstrated with numerous pictures, charts, graphs, and tables, and accompanied by a detailed reference list for further readings



Sustainable Manufacturing

Author : Rainer Stark

Publisher : Springer

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 20,50 MB

Release : 2017-01-16

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3319485148

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Book Description

This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation”. The book aims at providing a reference guide of sustainable manufacturing for researchers, describing methodologies for development of sustainable manufacturing solutions. The volume is structured in four chapters covering the following topics: sustainable manufacturing technology, sustainable product development, sustainable value creation networks and systematic change towards sustainable manufacturing. The target audience comprises both researchers and practitioners in the field of sustainable manufacturing, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.



Business Strategies for Sustainability

Author : Helen Borland

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 424 pages

File Size : 45,9 MB

Release : 2018-10-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0429858981

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Book Description

Business Strategies for Sustainability brings together important research contributions that demonstrate different approaches to business strategies for sustainability. Many corporate initiatives toward what firms perceive to be sustainability are simply efficiency drives or competitive moves – falling far short of actual strategies for ecological sustainability. To suggest true ecological sustainability strategies, this new research anthology adopts an interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary, approach to discern what business strategies might look like if they were underpinned by environmental and ecological science. The 23 chapters in this anthology reflect five main topic sections: (a) delineating sustainability challenges and visions; (b) contradiction, integration and transformation of business and sustainability logics; (c) innovating and developing strategic capabilities for sustainability; (d) assessing and valuing sustainability; and (e) toward multi-level engagement and collaboration.



A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility

Author : Caroline D. Ditlev-Simonsen

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 35,21 MB

Release : 2022

Category : Industrial management

ISBN : 3030882039

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Book Description

This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of corporate responsibility, this book moves from academic theory to practical application. It points to ways in which companies can successfully manage their transition to a more responsible, sustainable way of doing business, common mistakes to avoid and how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are integral to any sustainability transformation. Practical cases illustrate key points. Drawing on thirty years of sustainability research and extensive corporate experience, the author provides tools such as a Step-by-Step strategic guide on integrating sustainability in collaboration with stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers and investors. The book is particularly relevant for SMEs and companies operating in emerging markets. From a broader perspective, the value of externalities, full cost pricing, alternative economic theories and circular economy are also addressed.



Life Cycle Management

Author : Guido Sonnemann

Publisher : Springer

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 10,64 MB

Release : 2015-07-16

Category : Science

ISBN : 9401772215

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Book Description

This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of business and its value chains. In this regard, LCM is an opportunity to differentiate through sustainability performance on the market place, working with all departments of a company such as research and development, procurement and marketing, and to enhance the collaboration with stakeholders along a company’s value chain. LCM is used beyond short-term business success and aims at long-term achievements by minimizing environmental and socio-economic burden, while maximizing economic and social value.



Winning Sustainability Strategies

Author : Benoit Leleux

Publisher : Springer

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 12,52 MB

Release : 2018-11-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3319974459

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Book Description

Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability. Presenting numerous award-winning cases and examples from companies such as Unilever, Patagonia, Tumi, DSM and Umicore alongside original ideas based upon 20 years of consulting experience, this book reveals how to design and implement a stronger sense of focus and move sustainability programs forward. This proven combination of purpose, direction and speed is dubbed “Vectoring”. Based upon practitioner cases and data analysis from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Vectoring offers a plain-spoken framework to identify the relative position of companies compared to their peers. The framework and its 4 archetypes deliver insights for practitioners to locate inhibitors and overcome them by providing practical suggestions for process improvements. This includes designing and executing new sustainability programs, embedding the SDGs within company strategy and assessing the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness and valuation. Offering directions for CFOs to shift companies from integrated reporting to integrated thinking in order to accelerate their sustainability programs, Winning Sustainability Strategies shows how to achieve purpose with profit and how to do well by doing good.



Strategy and Sustainability

Author : Mike Rosenberg

Publisher : Springer

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 2016-04-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1137501758

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Book Description

Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money; sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters; sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit. To some activists, all executives are exploitative, selfish “1 percenters”. To some executives, all activists are irresponsible, unyielding extremists. And yet engaging with the issue isn’t optional – all businesses must have a strategy to deal with sustainability and, like any strategy, this involves making choices. Strategy and Sustainability encourages its readers to filter out the noise and make those choices in a hard-nosed and clear-eyed way. Rosenberg’s nuanced and fact-based point of view recognizes the complexity of the issues at hand and the strategic choices businesses must make. He blends the work of some of the leading academic thinkers in the field with practical examples from a variety of business sectors and geographies and offers a framework with which Senior Management might engage with the topic, not (just) to save the planet but to fulfil their short, medium, and long-term responsibilities to shareholders and other stakeholders.“/p>



Integrated Management

Author : Robert Sroufe

Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing

Page : 433 pages

File Size : 39,86 MB

Release : 2018-10-05

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1787149757

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Book Description

An exciting vision of what we can aspire to when sustainability is integrated within strategic practices across enterprise functions, systems, supply chains, and cities. The book will enable decision makers to recognize a new era of innovative value creation.



Sustainability Integration for Effective Project Management

Author : Silvius, Gilbert

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 482 pages

File Size : 13,37 MB

Release : 2013-06-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1466641789

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Book Description

Although it remains one of the most significant challenges in recent years, companies are beginning to integrate the ideas of sustainability into organized projects such as marketing, corporate communications, and annual reports. In this case, sustainability remains an important influence on the initiation of project management. Sustainability Integration for Effective Project Management provides a comprehensive understanding of the most important issues, concepts, trends, methodologies, and good practices in sustainability to project management. The research and concepts discussed in this publication are developed by professionals and academics aiming to provide the latest knowledge related to sustainability principles for prospective professionals, academics, and researchers in this area of expertise.



Sustainable Strategic Management

Author : W. Edward Stead

Publisher : M.E. Sharpe

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 39,71 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780765611314

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Book Description

This work fills the need for a strategic management text that gives full attention to sustainability and environmental protection. It includes chapter-by-chapter case studies of two organizations that exemplify many of the principles of environmentally sound management practices.