The sustainability handbook : the complete management guide to achieving social, economic and environmental responsibility

Summary: "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: print
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.