The sustainability handbook
- Publisher:
- Environmental Law Institute
- Publication date:
- 2008-04-18
- Authors:
- William R. Blackburn
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58576-102-9
Description:
The pursuit of sustainability can be complex, challenging, and ultimately beneficial when practiced by corporate, academic, government and non-profit organizations. The Sustainability Handbook provides a blueprint on how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. The handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools, including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries and tips on selecting sustainability codes, an extensive collection of sample metrics, and much more
Index
- Index
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction and Executive Summary
- 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
- Acronyms
- 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
- Appendix 1. Summary of Sustainability Trends
- Appendix 2. Sustainability-Related Codes of Organizational Behavior
- Appendix 3. Sustainability-Related Management System Standards
- Appendix 4. Planning Forms for Assessing and Prioritizing Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
- Appendix 5. Method for Calculating Savings and Cost Avoidance for Baxter's Environmental Financial Statement
- Appendix 6. Examples of Sustainability Issues for Various Functional Groups
- Appendix 7. Examples of Sustainability Metrics
- Appendix 8. Sustainability Resources for Universities
- Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs
- Preliminary sections