The thinking executive's guide to sustainability:

1. Systems simplified -- 2. What is meant by sustainability and who defines it -- 3. Systems and sustainability -- 4. Commerce as a system -- 5. Why industry is crucial to sustainability -- 6. Corporate sustainability frameworks, metrics, and indices -- 7. Where to start in your business -- Notes --...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) Business Expert Press 2014
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Environmental and social sustainability for business advantage collection
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Zusammenfassung:1. Systems simplified -- 2. What is meant by sustainability and who defines it -- 3. Systems and sustainability -- 4. Commerce as a system -- 5. Why industry is crucial to sustainability -- 6. Corporate sustainability frameworks, metrics, and indices -- 7. Where to start in your business -- Notes -- References -- Index
We live in an increasingly global economy in which the effects of shrunken economies, broadened communication, and widespread meteorological incidents associated with climate change are leaving virtually no one untouched. As a result, a working knowledge of concepts such as the triple bottom line and sustainability have become mandatory. Systems thinking, foundational for grasping these concepts, is based on transdisciplinary theories, deriving in part from biology, physics, economics, philosophy, computer science, engineering, geography, and other sciences. Specifically it is the study of systems, including all life-forms, climate phenomena, and even in human learning and organizational processes, that regulate themselves through feedback
Beschreibung:Part of: 2013 digital library
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index
Beschreibung:Online-Ressource (xxiii, 173 pages)
ISBN:9781606494202
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