Practical sustainability strategies : how to gain a competitive advantage / Nikos Avlonas, Founder and President Center for Sustainability & Excellence, George P. Nassos, Principal George P. Nassos & Associates, Inc.
Material type: TextPublisher: Hoboken New Jersey : Wiley, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781119561132
- 1119561132
- Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
- Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
- Sustainable development
- Social responsibility of business
- Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
- Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
- Social responsibility of business
- Sustainable development
- 658.4/083 23
- HD30.255 .A96 2014eb
Includes index.
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?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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