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The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 2

The Body of Knowledge around Radical Sustainability Innovation

  • 1st Edition - June 9, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mark Von Rosing
  • Language: English

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The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation, Volume Two provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability. The private sector must find new ways of doing business to align practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using a conceptually structured framework throughout, the book examines the latest academic research to summarize what environmental, social, and economic sustainability means in different contexts.

Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into the organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption, and lifecycle management. For researchers, students, and businesspeople at all levels and sectors, this handbook is an essential reference of the latest sustainability tools and methodologies required to adapt and innovate towards sustainability.

Key features

  • Provides step-by-step guidance on key procedures and methodologies
  • Presents chapters that begin with a graphical representation of how the topic fits within the larger framework
  • Includes extensive coverage of sustainability-related case studies and lessons learned

Readership

Academics and graduate students interested in Sustainability, Managers and professionals across all sectors interested in Sustainability tools and methodologies

Table of contents

PART I - Radical Sustainability Innovation

1. Why this book is relevant

2. What this books covers and what it doesn't cover

3. Radical Sustainability Innovation Trends and Drivers

4. Environment, Social and Governance

5. Develop Radical Sustainability Innovation

6. Radical Sustainability Innovation Portfolio

PART II - ENVIRONMENT

7. Introduction

8. CO2-neutral value chain

9. Zero Pollution

10. Beyond Carbon Neutrality: The Zero Emission Organisation

11. Eliminating noise pollution

12. Eliminating light pollution

13. Corporate environmental tracking apps

14. Smart and sustainable cities and the money path

15. Eliminating use of rare earths

16. The Transformative potential of 3D Printing

17. Bioconversion of organic waste

18. Towards Zero Waste: A Blueprint for Organizational Sustainability

19. Revolutionizing Waste Management: Unlocking the Potential of Bioengineered Recycling for Sustainable Organizations

20. Waste blockchain

21. Circular Economy for Complex Products: Sustainable Practices for Organizations

22. Conclusion

PART III - SOCIAL

23. Introduction

24. Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Fostering Race Diversity in the Workplace

25. The Ripple Effect: Doubling Donations for a Greener Tomorrow

26. Eco-Innovators: A Guide to Organizational Eco-Entrepreneurship

27. Employee pay tied to ESG score

28. Cause-related marketing across the entire product portfolio

29. Organizational Innovation: The Role of Diversity Quotas in Management for Crafting a Sustainable Organizational Future

30. Digital Government and Sustainable Development

31. Sustainability as a recruiting criterion

32. Conclusion

PART IV - ECONOMIC & GOVERNANCE

33. Introduction

34. Sustainability Ownership

35. Transparency over supply-chain incidents

36. Enforcing equal and fair pay

37. Beyond influence: Nuturing autonomy in organizational governance

38. Mandatory rotation of supervisory board members

39. NGOs on the supervisory board

40. External transparency over internal incidents

41. Sustainability Responsibility with a Chief Sustainability Officer

42. Agile concepts applied to Sustainability

43. Conclusion

PART V - Radical Sustainability Innovation Execution

44. Introduction

45. Radical Innovation in Action: A Guide to developing a Radical Sustainability Innovation Strategy

46. A Roadmap for execution

47. Measuring your Sustainability Maturity

48. Transformative Change: A Guide to Utilizing Change Management for Sustainable Practices

49. Conclusion

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 9, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Mark Von Rosing

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Chairman, Global University Alliance, Denmark

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