Beloff / Lines / Tanzil Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action

The Chemical Industry
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-75598-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

"A highly informative and brilliant contribution to the growingsustainability literature."
-Dr. Brian and Mary Nattrass Managing Partners of SustainabilityPartners and authors of The Natural Step for Business and Dancingwith the Tiger
The goal of sustainable development, a recent focus in thecorporate world, is to "ensure a better quality of life foreveryone today and in generations to come." The challenge facingindustry leaders is how to reconcile economically competitivestrategies with environmentally sound and socially responsiblepractices.
Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action: The ChemicalIndustry presents proven practical techniques to help managers inthe chemical industry identify and assess options for improving thesustainability of their organizations, with a pragmatic emphasis onoperational aspects, decision support, and guidelines for measuringprogress. Employing a systematic approach and introducing globallyproven problem-solving and decision-making tools designed toprovoke questioning and creative thinking, the authors address someof the most challenging issues for the industrial worldtoday.
The authors' combined expertise and extensive experience intranslating sustainability strategies from theory into action makethem uniquely qualified to deliver the kind of hands-on, responsivebusiness solutions that will give corporate leaders the competitiveedge in preparing for tomorrow's socially and environmentallyconscious marketplace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beloff, Beth

Lines, Marianne

Tanzil, Dicksen

Über Autor(innen)

BETH BELOFF is President and founder of BRIDGES toSustainability, a well-respected nonprofit organization dedicatedto the practical implementation of sustainability in business andindustry. She is an expert in integrating sustainable developmentwith other business aspects and, in particular, a thought leader inmeasuring sustainability performance. Beloff has coauthored manypublications on environmental accounting and sustainabilityperformance assessment, and has received awards and grants from avariety of industrial, government, and nonprofit sources.
MARIANNE LINES, a Senior Associate at BRIDGES toSustainability and Principal of Clear Lines Collaborations, workswith a wide range of private and public sector clients to improvetheir sustainability performance. Under her leadership, theCanadian Centre for Pollution Prevention became renowned for itscapacity to help organizations incorporate pollution preventioninto their business planning and decision-making. Recognized forcreating lasting alliances and inspiring collaborative action,Lines is the recipient of several prestigious awards for herefforts to foster environmental and business partnerships.
DICKSEN TANZIL is Research Director at BRIDGES toSustainability. Trained as a chemical engineer, Tanzil has servedas technical lead on various research and advisory projectsinvolving life-cycle assessment, total cost assessment, andsustainability indicators and metrics.
Beloff and Tanzil have recently joined Golder Associates, Inc., todevelop its sustainability practices in North America.