Corporate Sustainability

edited by Paolo Taticchi, Paolo Carbone, Vito Albino

Green Economy -- Industrial Sustainability -- Carbon Emissions Management and the Financial Implications of Sustainability -- Sustainability and Business at a Crossroads: The Idea of Positive Investments in Creating Shared Value -- Integrating Sustainability in Capital Budgeting Decisions -- A Study of Consumer Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Sustainability in Bradford, UK: An Economical and Environmentally Sustainable Opportunity -- Setting and Managing Sustainability Goals -- Environmental Management Systems: Enabling Tools Towards Sustainability? -- The Green Option Matrix to Characterize Green Products and Practices: Applications to the Upholstered Furniture and the Footwear Industries -- Sustainability Measurement and Reporting: Impacts on Finance, Stakeholders Communication and Internal Measurement Practices -- Sustainable Use of IT -- The Green Building Revolution: Advancing Sustainability at Exponential Speed -- Existing Buildings' Energy Upgrade: An Economical and Environmentally Sustainable Opportunity

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Taticchi, Paolo
Other Persons:	Carbone, Paolo (contributor) ; Albino, Vito (contributor)
Publisher:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Subject:	Corporate Social Responsibility \| Corporate social responsibility \| Umweltmanagement \| Environmental management \| Nachhaltige Entwicklung \| Sustainable development \| Umweltbezogenes Management \| Nachhaltigkeit
Description of contents:	Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (XVII, 280 p. 89 illus, digital)
Series:	CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Green Economy; 1 Introduction; 2 Towards a Green Economy; 2.1 Sustainable Development; 2.2 From Resource Constraints to Resource Efficiency; 2.3 Triple Bottom Line: Evaluating Social, Environmental and Economic Issues; 2.4 Natural Capitalism and Human Development; 3 Green Economy Definition; 4 Performance Indicators; 4.1 Ecological Footprint; 4.2 Human Development Index; 4.3 Towards a New System of Indicators; 5 Conclusions; References; Industrial Sustainability; 1 The Wider Context and the Scale of Challenge 1.1 Planet/Eco-System Context and Short Term Historical View of Industry2 Introducing Sustainability in Industrial Systems; 2.1 What Does Sustainability Mean As a Term?; 2.2 The Transitions from Traditional Manufacturing; 2.3 The Orientation of Leading Manufacturers; 2.4 From Strategies to Frameworks and Tools; 2.5 Specific Actions Towards Industrial Sustainability; 3 Derive Implications for Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chain Design; 3.1 A System Design Approach; 3.2 Sustainability Performance Measurement and Management; 3.3 Implications on Material and Energy 3.4 Positioning Research Contributions3.5 The Role of Organizational Change and Its Implications; 3.6 Extending the Perspective: Towards Sustainable Supply-Chains; 4 Discuss and Formulate Open Questions and Plans for Tomorrow Activities; 4.1 Recommendations for Educators; 4.2 Recommendations for Researchers; 4.3 Recommendations for Industrialists; 4.4 Recommendations for Policy Makers; 5 Conclusions; Case Study List and Sources; What Trigger Is the Company Responding To?; What Was the Response?; Bottom Line Benefits; Wider Lessons; What Trigger Is the Company Responding To? What Was the Response?Bottom Line Benefits; Wider Lessons; What Trigger Is the Company Responding To?; What Was the Response?; Bottom Line Benefits; Wider Lessons; References; Carbon Emissions Management and the Financial Implications of Sustainability; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Greenhouse Effect; 1.2 Carbon Emissions Management Approaches; 2 Financial Implications of Sustainability; 2.1 Cap and Trade Emissions Trading Schemes; 2.2 Carbon Emission and Sequestration (CES) Accounting; 2.3 CES Accounting: Assurance and Verification; 3 Carbon Financial Statement Accounting 4 Carbon Business Accounting4.1 Carbon Strategic Cost Management; 4.2 Carbon Strategic Management Accounting; 5 Summary; References; Sustainability and Business at a Crossroads: The Idea of Positive Investments in Creating Shared Value; 1 Introduction; 2 Redefining Sustainability: Positive Investments now to Ensure Durability in the Future; 2.1 Sustainability as Taking Stock in the Future; 2.2 The Idea of Positive Investments; 2.3 ``Accounting´´ for Sustainability; 3 Porter and Kramer´s Post-redistribution Approach to Creating Shared Value; 3.1 The Integration Argument 3.2 Transforming Business Via Local Clusters
ISBN:	978-3-642-37018-2 ; 978-3-642-37017-5
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-642-37018-2 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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