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Main Title The sustainability handbook : the complete management guide to achieving social, economic, and environmental responsibility /
Author Blackburn, William R.
Publisher Environmental Law Institute,
Year Published 2007
Stock Number Environmental Law Institute, 2000 L Street, N.W., Washington DC 20036.
OCLC Number 85269243
ISBN 9781585761029; 1585761028
Subjects Environmental economics--United States ; Organizational change--United States ; Sustainable development--Law and legislation--United States ; Sustainable development--Government policy--United States
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
Modified
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Status
EJDM  HC110.E5B563 2007 Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD 01/18/2010
EKBM  HC110.E5B563 2007 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 09/04/2018
EOAM  HC110.E5B563 2007 Sustainability Collection Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO 06/19/2009
ERAM  HC110.E5 B563 2007 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 05/30/2012
ESAM  HC110.E5B563 2007 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 08/10/2007
Collation xviii, 788 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Notes Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Introduction and Executive Summary -- Chapter 1. Addressing the Confusion About Sustainability: The Typical Executive View -- Chapter 2. Determining Scope: An Operational Definition of Sustainability -- Chapter 3. The Value of Sustainability: Why Bother? -- Chapter 4. Building and SOS: The Key Elements and Basic Structure -- Chapter 5. SOS Standards: The Roadmap for Change -- Chapter 6. Strategic Planning for Focused Sustainability Improvement -- Chapter 7. Selecting Goals and Indicators -- Chapter 8. Bringing Sustainability to the Front Line: Deployment, Integration, and Alignment -- Chapter 9. Data Systems, Auditing, and Other Monitoring and Accountability Mechanisms -- Chapter 10. Transparent Sustainability Reporting -- Chapter 11. Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs -- Chapter 12. Approach to Sustainability for Small and Struggling Companies -- Chapter 13. Approach to Sustainability for NGOs -- Chapter 14. Approach to Sustainability for Governmental Organizations -- Chapter 15. Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universties -- Chapter 16. Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS Sustainable -- Appendix 1. Summary of Sustainability Trends -- Appendix 2. Sustainbility-Related Codes of Organizational Behavior -- Appendix 3. Sustainability-Related Managements System Standards -- Appendix 4. Planning Forms for Asessing 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 Sustainbility Issues for Various Functional Groups -- Appendix 7. Examples of Sustainbility Metrics -- Appendix 8. Sustainability Resources for Universities -- Acronyms. This handbook covers the complexities, challenges and benefits of sustainability as it is pursued by corporate, academic, government and non-profit organisations. It provides a blueprint on how organisations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence.
Place Published Washington D.C.
Corporate Au Added Ent Environmental Law Institute.
PUB Date Free Form 2007
BIB Level m
Medium unmediated
Content text
Carrier volume
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
LCCN 2007275753
OCLC Time Stamp 20180903050949
Language eng
Origin OCLC
Type CAT
OCLC Rec Leader 04536cam 2200637 a 45010