Introduction to Sustainability Analytics

Raghavan (Ram) Ramanan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781498777056
• eBook ISBN: 9781351650939
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Business

The roles of corporate and public stewards and the nature of their social contract with society have been changing over the past two centuries, and those changes have accelerated in recent decades. Moreover, with increasing focus on sustainability factors from the marketplace (regulators, investors, financiers, and consumers), corporate sustainability disclosure is shifting from voluntary to vital. Corporate and public stewards are now responsible for their performance and services from cradle-to-grave: they must properly manage corporate social responsibility and integrate it into their global strategies, rather than consider it as merely a moral obligation or a risk/reputation management exercise.

Sustainability analytics, the critical link between sustainability and business strategy, helps professionals track, trend, and transform sustainability information into actionable insights across the value chain and life cycle, to enhance their sustainability performance and its disclosure. This book, Introduction to Sustainability Analytics, provides corporate and public stewards with a comprehensive understanding of how to determine which sustainability metrics are material to them and relevant to their business, and how to incorporate them into corporate strategy, resource allocation, and prioritization. Focusing on practical decision-making needs, it explains how to value and prioritize initiatives, and how to best allocate necessary resources through several real case studies and practical examples.

Features:

• Examines pressing issues such as climate change, water scarcity, and environmental justice
• Explains how to develop a business case and global strategy for social responsibility
• Includes both corporate and public policy perspectives on sustainability economics
• Covers emerging regulations on sustainability disclosure and responsible investing

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author
• Chapter 1 Sustainability Analytics and Social Responsibility
• Chapter 2 Sustainability Analytics and Decision Acumen
• Chapter 3 Sustainability Analytics and Decision Execution
• Chapter 4 Sustainability Analytics for Global Issues
• Chapter 5 Sustainability Analytics Applications
• Appendix A: List of SASB Material Sustainability Components
• Appendix B: Definition of Terms—US OMB Circular No. A-94 Revised
• Appendix C: Pentagon Presentation on Measuring Performance, 1998
• Appendix D: Green Chemistry Principles
• Appendix E: Assessment of Climate Change Impact
• Appendix F: Criteria—Pollutant Health and Welfare Benefits in 2010
• Index