Essentials of Sustainability for Business

ISBN-13: 9781032479354 / Miękka / 2023 / 188 str.

Peter McManners

Opis

Essentials of Sustainability for Business teaches the core principles of sustainability in a concise format for those new to issues at the intersection of sustainability and business.

Spis treści

Table of contents

 

Preface

 

1. Introduction

 

2. History of Sustainability

 

3. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

 

4. Corporate responsibility

 

5. Responding to Climate Change

 

6. Preventing Biodiversity Loss

 

7. Resources

 

8. Pollution

 

9. Delivering resilient sustainability

 

10. The Practitioner

 

11. Perspectives

 

12. Timescale

 

13. Lenses

 

14. Vision Building

 

15. Key Success Factors

 

16. Sustainable Business Models

 

17. The Sustainability Imperative

 

18. Agreements, Treaties and Regulations

 

19. Trade

 

20. Resilient economics

 

21. Employment

 

22. Manufacturing

 

23. Agriculture

 

24. Energy

 

25. City Design

 

26. Conclusions

 

Appendix 1 Exercise Feedback

O autorze

Dr Peter McManners leads the Sustainability and Scenario Analysis elective modules at the MBA level, and supervises research in the area of Strategy and Sustainability at the Henley Business School, University of Reading.