The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1

The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation

Mark Von Rosing

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780323901116
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Warming & Climate Change
• Index: Social Sciences

The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability. The private sector must find new ways of doing business to align 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 means in different contexts.Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into the organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption, and lifecycle management. Volume 1 explores the concept of Substantial Sustainability Innovation within an enterprise and why it is important. It clarifies the difference between environmental, social and governance aspects of sustainability and how they relate to each other. With examples from local sourcing to C02 reduction, business ethics to sustainability portfolio management, green business process management to gender diversity, this volume explores how you can use sustainability to innovate and identifies which components to use to build an effective sustainable strategy.For researchers, students, and businesspeople at all levels and sectors, this handbook is an essential reference of the latest sustainability tools and methodologies required to adapt and innovate towards sustainability. - Provides step-by-step guidance on key procedures and methodologies - Presents chapters that begin with a graphical representation of how the topic fits within the larger framework - Includes extensive coverage of sustainability-related case studies and lessons learned

Table of contents

• The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1
• Chapter 1 Why is sustainability so important?
• Chapter 2 What this book covers and what it doesn't cover
• Chapter 3 Substantial sustainability innovation trends and drivers
• Chapter 4 Environment, social and governance
• Chapter 5 Substantial sustainability innovation
• Chapter 6 Why you need sustainable portfolio management in the age of substantial innovation
• Chapter 7 The sustainability portfolio concept
• Chapter 8 PART II—Introduction to the environmental aspects of sustainability
• Chapter 9 CO2 reduction (scopes 1-2-3) and how to go about it
• Chapter 10 Use case of carbon footprint reduction—Use case from European aviation industry
• Chapter 11 CO2 compensation
• Chapter 12 CO2 reduction in supply chain
• Chapter 13 Sustainable sourcing practices
• Chapter 14 Green IT
• Chapter 15 Green power: Renewable energy types and sources
• Chapter 16 Innovation in the power industry
• Chapter 17 The what, why, and how around design-to-circularity
• Chapter 18 Service prototyping—Sustainability impact of a service innovation approach
• Chapter 19 Increasing recyclates
• Chapter 20 Limiting business travel
• Chapter 21 The need for sustainable financing: A research between the two emergencies; climate and pandemic
• Chapter 22 What we can learn from a COVID-19-related lockdown period
• Chapter 23 PART II—Conclusion to the environmental aspects of sustainability
• Chapter 24 PART III—Introduction to the social aspects of sustainability
• Chapter 25 Diversity of perspectives
• Chapter 26 Gender diversity
• Chapter 27 Board diversity and sustainable corporate performance: A research use case study from Turkey
• Chapter 28 Senior expert program
• Chapter 29 Job rotation
• Chapter 30 Employee volunteering: The what, why, and how
• Chapter 31 The Paris Agreement and human rights: Is sustainable development the “new human right”?
• Chapter 32 Human rights in supply chain
• Chapter 33 Eliminating child and forced labor
• Chapter 34 Sustainable workplace and workspace—A research use case
• Chapter 35 A developing country’s perspective on race to sustainability
• Chapter 36 Conclusion to the social aspects of sustainability
• Chapter 37 PART IV—Introduction to the economic and governance aspects of sustainability
• Chapter 38 Understanding business sustainability: The what, why, and how of sustainable business practices
• Chapter 39 Business ethics 2.0: The what, why, and how and practical suggestions
• Chapter 40 Sustainability board with veto rights
• Chapter 41 Sustainability policy, guidelines and procedures
• Chapter 42 Why you need a coherent whistleblowing system
• Chapter 43 Mandatory sustainability reporting
• Chapter 44 External ESG auditing: The what, why, who, and how
• Chapter 45 ESG supplier selection
• Chapter 46 Supply chain sustainability
• Chapter 47 Greening the workplace: How sustainable practices drive employee engagement
• Chapter 48 The what, why, and how around responsible lobbying
• Chapter 49 Conclusion to the economic and governance aspects of sustainability
• Chapter 50 PART V—Introduction to substantial sustainability innovation execution
• Chapter 51 Developing a substantial innovation sustainability strategy
• Chapter 52 Sustainability innovation roadmap—The what, why, and how
• Chapter 53 Continuous improvement
• Chapter 54 PART V—Conclusion to the substantial sustainability innovation execution aspects
• Index