The Sustainability Handbook: How to Go About Disruptive Sustainability Innovation, Volume Three provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into an organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption and lifecycle management. Aimed at those who have already established a mature Sustainability Portfolio Management approach, it explores the “why” of Disruptive Sustainably Innovation and how to capture and use Sustainability Drivers and Requirements. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability for present and future generations. The private sector especially must find new ways of doing business to align their 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 actually means in different contexts. This book will be ideal for researchers, students and businesspeople at all levels and sectors.
Table of Contents
Part I Radical Sustainability Innovation 1. Why this book is relevant 2. What this book covers and what it doesn't cover 3. Sustainability trends and drivers 4. Sustainability Drivers and requirements 5. Environment, Social and Governance 6. Sustainability and Innovation 7. Sustainable Portfolio
Part II Environment 8. Introduction 9. Net-zero emission products 10. CO2-negative value chain 11. Self-sufficient production plants 12. Corporate Biodiversity Plan 13. Sustainable Business Model 14. Rethink water cycle to Zero freshwater consumption 15. Closed loop 16. Eliminating business travels using avatars 17. Conclusion
Part III Social 18. Introduction 19. Temporary transfers to NGOs 20. Open Innovation Supporting Sustainable Innovation 21. Employee sustainability tracking app 22. Ethical Financing 23. Lifetime product liability 24. Conclusion
Part IV Economic and Governance 25. Introduction 26. Sustainability CoE 27. Sustainability Lifecycle 28. Sustainability Governance 29. Democratic decision-making, including minority groups 30. Sustainability Change Management 31. Bonus systems based on sustainability tracking 32. Sustainability Outsourcing 33. Sustainable Financing 34. "Planet AI" on the management board 35. Sustainability Policy 36. Sustainability Governance 37. Conclusion
Part V Substantial Sustainability Innovation 38. Introduction 39. Sustainability Drivers and Requirements 40. Strategy 41. Roadmap 42. Sustainability Maturity 43. Knowledge Building 44. Conclusion
