The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility
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...
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The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and 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, tips on selecting sustainability codes, an extensive collection of metrics and a wealth of supplementary reference material. Truly the only reference needed for every organization.
Acknowledgments ixAbout the Author xiIntroduction and Executive Summary xiiiAddressing the Confusion About Sustainability: The Typical Executive View 1Determining Scope: An Operational Definition of Sustainability 17The Value of Sustainability: Why Bother? 33Building an SOS: The Key Elements and Basic Structure 123SOS Standards: The Roadmap for Change 163Strategic Planning for Focused Sustainability Improvement 189Selecting Goals and Indicators 225Bringing Sustainability to the Front Line: Deployment, Integration, and Alignment 257Data Systems, Auditing, and Other Monitoring and Accountability Mechanisms 281Transparent Sustainability Reporting 309Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs 373Approach to Sustainability for Small and Struggling Companies 419Approach to Sustainability for NGOs 431Approach to Sustainability for Governmental Organizations 441Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universities 477Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS Sustainable 543AppendicesSummary of Sustainability Trends 551Sustainability-RelatedCodes of Organizational Behavior 647Sustainability-Related Management System Standards 687Planning Forms for Assessing and Prioritizing Sustainability Risks and Opportunities 703Method for Calculating Savings and Cost Avoidance for Baxter's Environmental Financial Statement 709Examples of Sustainability Issues for Various Functional Groups 713Examples of Sustainability Metrics 725Sustainability Resources for Universities 751Acronyms 779Index 789
