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Practical sustainability strategies : how to gain a competitive advantage / Nikos Avlonas, George P. Nassos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avlonas, Nikos, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.
- Business enterprises.
- Industrial management--Environmental aspects.
- Industrial management.
- Sustainable development.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Strategies for Implementing Sustainable Development in Businesses provides more than ten sustainable strategies and tools that can be implemented by organizations to improve their competitive business advantage, while also providing a positive impact to the community and workplace. This vital book for R&D chemists and engineers and process designers provides economic justification of sustainability with examples. Case studies based on the authors' vast experience with many leading companies illustrate each sustainable strategy.
- Contents:
- Urgency to adopt sustainability
- Development of sustainability concept and CSR
- The C.E.R.E.S. and other principles
- The natural step
- Eco-effective vs. eco-efficient: sustainability vs. being "less bad"
- Extended product responsibility and "servicizing"
- Systems thinking leads to "tunneling through the cost barrier"
- Environmental innovation through biomimicry
- Base of the pyramid
- Sustaining fisheries
- Green buildings
- Green chemistry, nanotechnology and big hairy audacious goal
- Sustainability and beyond
- Standards and guidelines for managing sustainability
- The corporation and its stakeholders
- Sustainability reporting
- Metrics for sustainability
- Life cycle analysis and carbon footprint
- Water footprint
- Green marketing, communication and green washing
- Epilogue : where do we go now?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on a print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-118-78737-4
- 1-118-78747-1
- 1-118-78749-8
- OCLC:
- 861080990
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