The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 4
The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation
Published on 1. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-443-43984-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 4: The Body of Knowledge around Sustainability Transformation provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Aimed at those who have established a mature Sustainability Portfolio Management approach, Volume 4 goes beyond the why of Substantial, Radical, and Disruptive Sustainable Innovation, exploring how to capture and use Sustainability Drivers and Requirements. This volume naturally bridges the gap between the innovative ideas discussed in Volumes 1, 2, and 3, and their practical implementation.
Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and the private sector must find new ways of doing business to align their practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, this handbook shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into an organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption and lifecycle management. Volume 4 focuses on embedding these innovations into organizational processes, capabilities, culture, and strategy. It ensures that sustainability is not just a visionary goal but a tangible, operational reality, guiding businesses through the complex journey of integrating sustainable practices into their core operations.
This book will be ideal for researchers, students and businesspeople at all levels and sectors who need a conceptually structured framework to understand what environmental, social, and economic sustainability actually means in different contexts
Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and the private sector must find new ways of doing business to align their practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, this handbook shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into an organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption and lifecycle management. Volume 4 focuses on embedding these innovations into organizational processes, capabilities, culture, and strategy. It ensures that sustainability is not just a visionary goal but a tangible, operational reality, guiding businesses through the complex journey of integrating sustainable practices into their core operations.
This book will be ideal for researchers, students and businesspeople at all levels and sectors who need a conceptually structured framework to understand what environmental, social, and economic sustainability actually means in different contexts
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-443-43984-1 (9780443439841)
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Person
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.
Content
PART I: The Need to Change
1. What this book covers and what it doesn't cover
2. Sustainability Drivers of Change
3. Shifting from Compliance to Leadership
4. The Role of Transformation in Sustainability
PART II: Environment
5. Introduction
6. Organisations Are Not Doing Enough to Move Towards Sustainability
7. Earth Overshoot Day and why it is so important
8. The Need to Understand the Ecological Footprint of Your Organisation
9. Thriving in Turbulent Times: Climate Adaptation for a Sustainable Future
10. Corporate biodiversity plan
11. Introduction to the Sustainability Management Lifecycle
12. Sustainable Toolbox
13. Conclusion
PART III: Social
14. Introduction
15. Sustainability as a part of your Digital Transformation Journey
16. The Sustainability Quick scan - Understand Where You Are in Your Journey
17. Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Sustainability Knowledge Building
18. Sustainability Measurements
19. Sustainability Transformation Requirement Management
20. Employee Well-being and Development
21. Stakeholder Collaboration and Partnerships
22. Build Core Sustainability Capabilities
23. How to create a sustainable culture
24. How to use Sustainability in your brand
25. The need to set up Sustainability Education, Training and Coaching
26. Conclusion
PART IV: Economic and Governance
27. Introduction
28. Embedding sustainability into your organization's DNA
29. Corporate Governance and Sustainability Leadership
30. Sustainability Business/Value Case
31. The Main Hurdles for Business Sustainability - And why companies don't embrace enough sustainability
32. Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainability Governance
33. Practice Guide: Transparency in Organizational Lobbying
34. Sustainability CoE
35. Sustainability Change Management
36. Sustainability Business Process Management
37. Rethinking Sustainable Finance Practices for a Better World
38. Sustainability Scorecards and Reporting
39. Sustainability Change Management to Support the Change Needed
40. Conclusion
PART V: Sustainability Transformation
41. Introduction
42. Sustainability Transformation Roadmap
43. Sustainability Maturity Analysis
44. Conclusion to Sustainability Handbook Volume IV
1. What this book covers and what it doesn't cover
2. Sustainability Drivers of Change
3. Shifting from Compliance to Leadership
4. The Role of Transformation in Sustainability
PART II: Environment
5. Introduction
6. Organisations Are Not Doing Enough to Move Towards Sustainability
7. Earth Overshoot Day and why it is so important
8. The Need to Understand the Ecological Footprint of Your Organisation
9. Thriving in Turbulent Times: Climate Adaptation for a Sustainable Future
10. Corporate biodiversity plan
11. Introduction to the Sustainability Management Lifecycle
12. Sustainable Toolbox
13. Conclusion
PART III: Social
14. Introduction
15. Sustainability as a part of your Digital Transformation Journey
16. The Sustainability Quick scan - Understand Where You Are in Your Journey
17. Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Sustainability Knowledge Building
18. Sustainability Measurements
19. Sustainability Transformation Requirement Management
20. Employee Well-being and Development
21. Stakeholder Collaboration and Partnerships
22. Build Core Sustainability Capabilities
23. How to create a sustainable culture
24. How to use Sustainability in your brand
25. The need to set up Sustainability Education, Training and Coaching
26. Conclusion
PART IV: Economic and Governance
27. Introduction
28. Embedding sustainability into your organization's DNA
29. Corporate Governance and Sustainability Leadership
30. Sustainability Business/Value Case
31. The Main Hurdles for Business Sustainability - And why companies don't embrace enough sustainability
32. Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainability Governance
33. Practice Guide: Transparency in Organizational Lobbying
34. Sustainability CoE
35. Sustainability Change Management
36. Sustainability Business Process Management
37. Rethinking Sustainable Finance Practices for a Better World
38. Sustainability Scorecards and Reporting
39. Sustainability Change Management to Support the Change Needed
40. Conclusion
PART V: Sustainability Transformation
41. Introduction
42. Sustainability Transformation Roadmap
43. Sustainability Maturity Analysis
44. Conclusion to Sustainability Handbook Volume IV