The Sustainability Handbook

The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84407-495-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 826 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1388 g

The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries of sustainability codes and tips on selecting them, an extensive collection of metrics and a wealth of supplementary reference material. This is the essential reference for every organization in pursuit of sustainability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackburn, William R.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Executive Summary * Addressing the Confusion About Sustainability: The Typical Executive View * Determining Scope: An Operational Definition of Sustainability * The Value of Sustainability: Why Bother? * Building an SOS: The Key Elements and Basic Structure * SOS Standards: The Roadmap for Change * Strategic Planning for Focused Sustainability Improvement * Selecting Goals and Indicators * Bringing Sustainability to the Front Line: Deployment, Integration, and Alignment * Data Systems, Auditing, and Other Monitoring and
Accountability Mechanisms * Transparent Sustainability Reporting * Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs * Approach to Sustainability for Small and Struggling Companies * Approach to Sustainability for NGOs * Approach to Sustainability for Governmental Organizations * Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universities * Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS
Sustainable * Appendices * Index

Über Autor(innen)

William R. Blackburn is a lawyer and leading sustainability consultant with three decades of experience. Amongst his positions, Blackburn is a member of the Management Team of the Stakeholder Council, Global Reporting Initiative and expert delegate of the Working Group on the Guidance on Social Responsibility of ISO 26000. He was former Vice-President and Chief Counsel of Corporate Environment, Health and Safety at Baxter International Inc.