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The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 2. The Body of Knowledge around Radical Sustainability Innovation

  • Book

  • July 2024
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 5789717

The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation, Volume Two provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability. The private sector must find new ways of doing business to align practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using a conceptually structured framework throughout, the book examines the latest academic research to summarize what environmental, social, and economic sustainability means in different contexts.

Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into the organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption, and lifecycle management. For researchers, students, and businesspeople at all levels and sectors, this handbook is an essential reference of the latest sustainability tools and methodologies required to adapt and innovate towards sustainability.

Table of Contents

PART I Radical Sustainability Innovation
1. Why this book is relevant
2. What this books covers and what it doesn't cover
3. Radical Sustainability Innovation Trends and Drivers
4. Environment, Social and Governance
5. Develop Radical Sustainability Innovation
6. Radical Sustainability Innovation Portfolio

PART II ENVIRONMENT
7. Introduction
8. CO2-neutral value chain
9. Zero Pollution
10. Beyond Carbon Neutrality: The Zero Emission Organisation
11. Eliminating noise pollution
12. Eliminating light pollution
13. Corporate environmental tracking apps
14. Smart and sustainable cities and the money path
15. Eliminating use of rare earths
16. The Transformative potential of 3D Printing
17. Bioconversion of organic waste
18. Towards Zero Waste: A Blueprint for Organizational Sustainability
19. Revolutionizing Waste Management: Unlocking the Potential of Bioengineered Recycling for Sustainable Organizations
20. Waste blockchain
21. Circular Economy for Complex Products: Sustainable Practices for Organizations
22. Conclusion

PART III SOCIAL
23. Introduction
24. Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Fostering Race Diversity in the Workplace
25. The Ripple Effect: Doubling Donations for a Greener Tomorrow
26. Eco-Innovators: A Guide to Organizational Eco-Entrepreneurship
27. Employee pay tied to ESG score
28. Cause-related marketing across the entire product portfolio
29. Organizational Innovation: The Role of Diversity Quotas in Management for Crafting a Sustainable Organizational Future
30. Digital Government and Sustainable Development
31. Sustainability as a recruiting criterion
32. Conclusion

PART IV ECONOMIC & GOVERNANCE
33. Introduction
34. Sustainability Ownership
35. Transparency over supply-chain incidents
36. Enforcing equal and fair pay
37. Beyond influence: Nuturing autonomy in organizational governance
38. Mandatory rotation of supervisory board members
39. NGOs on the supervisory board
40. External transparency over internal incidents
41. Sustainability Responsibility with a Chief Sustainability Officer
42. Agile concepts applied to Sustainability
43. Conclusion

PART V Radical Sustainability Innovation Execution
44. Introduction
45. Radical Innovation in Action: A Guide to developing a Radical Sustainability Innovation Strategy
46. A Roadmap for execution
47. Measuring your Sustainability Maturity
48. Transformative Change: A Guide to Utilizing Change Management for Sustainable Practices
49. Conclusion

Authors

Mark von Rosing Chairman, Global University Alliance, Denmark. Mark von Rosing is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, researcher and board-room advisor. He is a pioneer in the field of climate control and Sustainability. Through his research, publications and effort with standard bodies (ISO, IEEE, OMG, CEN, NIST, LEADing Practice, NATO, UN, W3C) he has been involved of developing 200+ Enterprise Standards and 52 different Industry Standards. Beyond, he left his mark in the field of process modelling having published the best-selling book series The Complete Business Process Handbook, published by Elsevier. Companies such as SAP AG have involved him in developing and leading their Sustainability approaches as well as the Sustainability architecture approaches.