Strategies for implementing sustainable development in businesses /

Strategies for Implementing Sustainable Development in Businesses provides more than ten sustainable strategies and tools that can be implemented by organizations to improve their competitive business advantage, while also providing a positive impact to the community and workplace. This vital book f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Avlonas, Nikos, 1969-
Other Authors: Nassos, George P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2014]
Subjects:
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
Industrial management > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Social responsibility of business.
Entreprises > Aspect de l'environnement.
Gestion d'entreprise > Aspect de l'environnement.
Développement durable.
Entreprises > Responsabilité sociale.
sustainable development.
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects
Industrial management > Environmental aspects
Social responsibility of business
Sustainable development
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Urgency to adopt sustainability
  • Development of sustainability concept and CSR
  • The C.E.R.E.S. and other principles
  • The natural step
  • Eco-effective vs. eco-efficient: sustainability vs. being "less bad"
  • Extended product responsibility and "servicizing"
  • Systems thinking leads to "tunneling through the cost barrier"
  • Environmental innovation through biomimicry
  • Base of the pyramid
  • Sustaining fisheries
  • Green buildings
  • Green chemistry, nanotechnology and big hairy audacious goal
  • Sustainability and beyond
  • Standards and guidelines for managing sustainability
  • The corporation and its stakeholders
  • Sustainability reporting
  • Metrics for sustainability
  • Life cycle analysis and carbon footprint
  • Water footprint
  • Green marketing, communication and green washing
  • Epilogue : where do we go now?

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