The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 3

The Body of Knowledge Around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-33756-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 656 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosing, Mark Von

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rosing, Mark Von
Mark von Rosing is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, researcher and board-room advisor. He is a pioneer in the field of climate control and Sustainability. Through his research, publications and effort with standard bodies (ISO, IEEE, OMG, CEN, NIST, LEADing Practice, NATO, UN, W3C) he has been involved of developing 200+ Enterprise Standards and 52 different Industry Standards. Beyond, he left his mark in the field of process modelling having published the best-selling book series The Complete Business Process Handbook, published by Elsevier. Companies such as SAP AG have involved him in developing and leading their Sustainability approaches as well as the Sustainability architecture approaches.