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

"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."--BOOK JACKET. Read more... Content: 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. Abstract: Covers the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. This book shows how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations. Read more...

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.

'A truly comprehensive review of sustainable development as it relates to organizations large and small.' Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Chairman Anglo-American plc 'By far the best book on sustainability I have read in the last ten years.' George Nagel Senior Director EHS Strategies and Outreach Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 'Bill Blackburn has accomplished a rare feat: he has crafted the perfect reference for both the academic and the executive. [It] should be required reading for MBA students and seasoned executives.' Allen White Senior Fellow Tellus Institute Co-Founder and former CEO Global Reporti Covers various challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and organizations. This title provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches and tools.