The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation 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. Volume 1 explores the concept of Substantial Sustainability Innovation within an enterprise and why it is important. It clarifies the difference between environmental, social and governance aspects of sustainability and how they relate to each other. With examples from local sourcing to C02 reduction, business ethics to sustainability portfolio management, green business process management to gender diversity, this volume explores how you can use sustainability to innovate and identifies which components to use to build an effective sustainable strategy.
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.
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Table of Contents
Part 1 -Substantial sustainability innovation
1. Why is sustainability so important?
2. PART I-Introduction to substantial sustainability innovation
3. Substantial sustainability innovation trends and drivers
4. Environment, social and governance
5. Sustainability and innovation
Part II Sustainable portfolio management
6. Why you need sustainable portfolio management in the age of substantial innovation
7. The sustainability portfolio concept
Part III Environment
8. PART III-Introduction
9. CO2 reduction (scopes 1-2-3) and how to go about it
10. Use case of carbon footprint reduction-Use case from European aviation industry
11. CO2 compensation
12. CO2 reduction in supply chain
13. Sustainable sourcing practices
14. Green IT
15. Green power: Renewable energy types and sources
16. Innovation in the power industry
17. The what, why, and how around design-to-circularity
18. Service prototyping- Sustainability impact of a service innovation approach
19. Increasing recyclates
20. Limiting business travel
21. The need for sustainable financing: A research between the two emergencies; climate and pandemic
22. What we can learn from a COVID-19-related lockdown period
23. PART III. Conclusion to the environmental aspects of sustainability
Part IV Social
24. PART IV-Sustainability social introduction
25. Diversity of perspectives
26. Gender diversity
27. Board diversity and sustainable corporate performance: A research use case study from Turkey
28. Senior expert program
29. Job rotation
30. Employee volunteering: The what, why, and how
31. The Paris Agreement and human rights: Is sustainable development the “new human right”?
32. Human rights in supply chain
33. Eliminating child and forced labor
34. Sustainable workplace and workspace-A research use case
35. A developing country’s perspective on race to sustainability: Sustainability for countries with weak economic performance-Case study: Egypt’s challenge and opportunities to 2050
36. Conclusion to the social aspects of sustainability
Part V Economic and governance
37. PART V-Introduction to the economic and governance aspects of sustainability
38. Understanding business sustainability: The what, why, and how of sustainable business practices
39. Business ethics 2.0: The how, what, why and practical suggestions
40. Sustainability board with veto rights
41. Sustainability policy, guidelines and procedures
42. Why you need a coherent whistleblowing system
43. Mandatory ESG reporting
44. External ESG auditing: The what, why, who, and how
45. ESG supplier selection
46. Supply chain sustainability
47. Greening the workplace: How sustainable practices drive employee engagement
48. The what, why, and how around responsible lobbying
49. Conclusion to the economic and governance aspects of sustainability
Part VI Substantial sustainability innovation
50. PART VI-Substantial sustainability innovation introduction
51. Developing a substantial innovation sustainability strategy
52. Roadmap
53. Continuous improvement
54. PART VI-Conclusion
