The New Sustainability Sandbox

Breaking Free from Business-as-Usual
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-21787-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business

This book explores what it will take for corporate sustainability to move beyond sustainability-as-usual and considers how accelerating cultural, societal, and political shifts are reshaping the path forward.

As businesses confront intensifying environmental and societal pressures, a deeper tension has come into focus: the challenge of driving meaningful change within an economic system still fundamentally optimized for growth and profit maximization. Framed around the challenge of reimagining what transformative sustainability can look like, this collection draws on over a decade of the author’s published work to critique, reimagine, and reconstruct the models, assumptions, and strategies companies use to pursue sustainability. The book is structured into five thematic chapters, each bookended by framing essays that connect and contextualize the selected articles around the chapter’s key themes, with postscripts following selected articles to consider recent updates. These chapters explore topics such as regeneration, degrowth, innovation, systems thinking, and personal agency, all from a strategic design perspective. Overall, the book questions foundational assumptions in the corporate sustainability playbook while proposing bolder, more relevant, and more adaptive approaches that respond to the complex realities of today’s world.

The New Sustainability Sandbox will be a great resource for sustainability professionals, business strategists, designers, and educators working at the intersection of sustainability and business. It will also be of interest to students and researchers of sustainable business, design for sustainability, organizational change, and innovation strategy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Godelnik, Raz

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Trapped in Sustainability-as-Usual Chapter 2: Rethinking Tomorrow: A Critical Take on Circularity, Regeneration, Degrowth & AI Chapter 3: The Design Imperative: Approaching Sustainability Strategy Through a Design Lens Chapter 4: Strategic Rewilding: Breaking the Mold of Sustainability-as-Usual Chapter 5: Connecting the Dots Between Personal Action and Systemic Change

Über Autor(innen)

Raz Godelnik is an Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York. His work examines how strategic design can challenge sustainability-as-usual, with a focus on sustainable business models, 1.5°C lifestyles, and corporate responses to the climate crisis. He co-founded two green startups, Eco-Libris and Hemper Jeans, and is the author of Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis: A Strategic Design Approach (2021).