The Sustainability: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic, and Environmental Responsibility
The Sustainability Handbook covers the complexities, challenges, and benefits of sustainability when pursued by corporate, academic, government, and nonprofi t organizations. It provides a blueprint on how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social, and environmental excellence. The handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools, including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries, and tips on selecting sustainability codes, an extensive...
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The Sustainability Handbook covers the complexities, challenges, and benefits of sustainability when pursued by corporate, academic, government, and nonprofi t organizations. It provides a blueprint on how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social, and environmental excellence. The handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools, including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries, and tips on selecting sustainability codes, an extensive collection of sample metrics, and more.
Acknowledgments ixAbout the Author xiIntroduction and Executive Summary xiiiChapter 1 Addressing the Confusion About Sustainability: The Typical Executive View 1Chapter 2 Determining Scope: An Operational Definition of Sustainability 17Chapter 3 The Value of Sustainability: Why Bother? 33Chapter 4 Building an SOS: The Key Elements and Basic Structure 123Chapter 5 SOS Standards: The Roadmap for Change 163Chapter 6 Strategic Planning for Focused Sustainability Improvement 189Chapter 7 Selecting Goals and Indicators 225Chapter 8 Bringing Sustainability to the Front Line: Deployment, Integration, and Alignment 257Chapter 9 Data Systems, Auditing, and Other Monitoring and Accountability Mechanisms 281Chapter 10 Transparent Sustainability Reporting 309Chapter 11 Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs 373Chapter 12 Approach to Sustainability for Small and Struggling Companies 419Chapter 13 Approach to Sustainability for NGOs 431Chapter 14 Approach to Sustainability for governmental Organizations 441Chapter 15 Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universities 477Chapter 16 Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS Sustainable 543AppendicesAppendix 1 Summary of Sustainability Trends 551Appendix 2 Sustainability-Related Codes of Organizational Behavior 647Appendix 3 Sustainability-Related Management System Standards 687Appendix 4 Planning Forms for Assessing and Prioritizing Sustainability Risks and Opportunities 703Appendix 5 Method for Calculating Savings and Cost Avoidance for Baxter's Environmental Financial Statement 709Appendix 6 Examples of Sustainability Issues for VariousFunctional Groups 713Appendix 7 Examples of Sustainability Metrics 725Appendix 8 Sustainability Resources for Universities 751Acronyms 779Index 789
\ Sir Mark Moody-Stuart"A truly comprehensive review of sustainable development as it relates to organizations large and small. This book will help managers to think about the impact of their business on the people they employ, their customers, their shareholders, the environment and society at large. It also puts the many tools and guidelines in a context which allows for thoughtful selection."\ \
