The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation, Volume One 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. 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.
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
