The Sustainability Handbook
by
William R. Blackburn
Covers the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. This book shows how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations.
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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.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Earthscan Ltd
City:
London
Pages:
828
More info:
height 234 mm
width 156 mm
weight 1386 gr
thickness 49 mm
Summary
The Sustainability Handbook
Introduction and Executive Summary * Addressing the Confusion About Sustainability: The Typical Executive View * Determining Scope: An Operational Definition of Sustainability * The Value of Sustainability: Why Bother? * Building an SOS: The Key Elements and Basic Structure * SOS Standards: The Roadmap for Change * Strategic Planning for Focused Sustainability Improvement * Selecting Goals and Indicators * Bringing Sustainability to the Front Line: Deployment, Integration, and Alignment * Data Systems, Auditing, and Other Monitoring and Accountability Mechanisms * Transparent Sustainability Reporting * Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs * Approach to Sustainability for Small and Struggling Companies * Approach to Sustainability for NGOs * Approach to Sustainability for Governmental Organizations * Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universities * Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS Sustainable * Appendices * Index
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