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The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 3

The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation

  • 1st Edition - January 23, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mark Von Rosing
  • Language: English

The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation, Volume Three provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainab… Read more

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Description

The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation, Volume Three provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into an organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption and lifecycle management. Aimed at those who have already established a mature Sustainability Portfolio Management approach, it explores the “why” of Disruptive Sustainably Innovation and how to capture and use Sustainability Drivers and Requirements.

Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability for present and future generations. The private sector especially must find new ways of doing business to align their 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 actually means in different contexts. This book will be ideal for researchers, students and businesspeople at all levels and sectors.

Key features

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

Readership

Academics, professionals, students, and business leaders with an interest in sustainability

Table of contents

Part I Radical Sustainability Innovation

1. Why this book is relevant

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

3. Sustainability trends and drivers

4. Sustainability Drivers and requirements

5. Environment, Social and Governance

6. Sustainability and Innovation

7. Sustainable Portfolio

Part II Environment

8. Introduction

9. Net-zero emission products

10. CO2-negative value chain

11. Self-sufficient production plants

12. Corporate Biodiversity Plan

13. Sustainable Business Model

14. Rethink water cycle to Zero freshwater consumption

15. Closed loop

16. Eliminating business travels using avatars

17. Conclusion

Part III Social

18. Introduction

19. Temporary transfers to NGOs

20. Open Innovation Supporting Sustainable Innovation

21. Employee sustainability tracking app

22. Ethical Financing

23. Lifetime product liability

24. Conclusion

Part IV Economic and Governance

25. Introduction

26. Sustainability CoE

27. Sustainability Lifecycle

28. Sustainability Governance

29. Democratic decision-making, including minority groups

30. Sustainability Change Management

31. Bonus systems based on sustainability tracking

32. Sustainability Outsourcing

33. Sustainable Financing

34. "Planet AI" on the management board

35. Sustainability Policy

36. Sustainability Governance

37. Conclusion

Part V Substantial Sustainability Innovation

38. Introduction

39. Sustainability Drivers and Requirements

40. Strategy

41. Roadmap

42. Sustainability Maturity

43. Knowledge Building

44. Conclusion

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 17, 2026
  • 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