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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

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Author:   Mark Von Rosing (Chairman, Global University Alliance, Denmark)
Publisher:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
ISBN:  

9780443439841

ISBN 10:   0443439842
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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