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The sustainability handbook : the complete management guide to achieving social, economic and environmental responsibility / by William R. Blackburn.
"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."--Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781844074952
- ISBN: 1844074951
- Physical Description: xviii, 803 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
- Publisher: London : Earthscan, 2007.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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 1. Summary of sustainability trends -- 2. Sustainability-related codes of organizational behavior -- 3. Sustainability-related management system standards -- 4. Planning forms for assessing and prioritizing sustainability risks and opportunities -- 5. Method for calculating savings and cost avoidance for Baxter's environmental financial statement -- 6. Examples of sustainability issues for various functional groups -- 7. Examples of sustainability metrics -- 8. Sustainability resources for universities.
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Social responsibility of business > United States.
Environmental economics.
Organizational change.
Social responsibility of business.
Sustainable development > Government policy.
Sustainable development > Law and legislation.
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Lummi Library | HC 110 .E5 B53 2007 | 280331 | Stacks | Available | - |
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