Handbook of Engaged Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9783319713113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 1208 str.

Satinder Dhiman; Joan Marques

Opis

This handbook is based on the premise that in order for sustainability to be sustainable, a profound psychological transformation has to take place at the individual and collective level.

Spis treści

Part I: Ecological Ramifications of Non-Sustainability.- Chapter 1: Selfishness, Greed and Apathy: Addressing the Spiritual Impoverishment at the Root of Ecological Sustainability.- Chapter 2: To Eat or Not To Eat Meat: Striking at the Root of Global Warming!.- Chapter 3: The Spirit of Sustainability: The Fourth Dimension to the Bottom Line.- Chapter 5: From Crop Wastes to Mushroom Packages: The Creative Destruction of Packaging Industry.- Chapter 6: Just conservation: In defense of environmentalism.- Part II: Systemic Paradigm Shifts About Sustainability.- Chapter 7: Social Entrepreneurship: Where Sustainable Leading meets Sustainable Living.- Chapter 8: Higher Education Teaching Approaches to Move from the Individual to the Collective approach to Sustainability.- Chapter 9: The search for the good green life: A personal exploration of what it means to live sustainably.- Chapter 10: Utilizing Social Media and Gamification in Sustainable Practices.- Chapter 11: The Theology of Sustainability Practice.- Part III: Innovative Initiatives Toward Engaged Sustainability.- Chapter 12: Moving Forward with Social Responsibility: Shifting Gears from Why to How.- Chapter 13: Designing Sustainability Reporting Systems to Maximize Dynamic Stakeholder Agility.- Chapter 14: Empathy as a Driver for Engaged Sustainability in Enterprises.- Chapter 15: Packing-Free Supermarkets.-  Chapter 16: Social sustainability in Built Environment Supply Chains.- Chapter 17: Responsible Investing and Corporate Social Responsibility for Engaged Sustainability.- Chapter 18: Up-Cycle Construction Capital: Turning The Cost of Waste into Sustainable Benefits.- Chapter 19: Transition in Energy Sector: A qualitative Case Study of a Community Based Enterprise.- Part IV: Global Initiatives Toward Engaged Sustainability.- Chapter 20: Gourmet products from food waste.- Chapter 21: Permaculture and the Politics of (Un)sustainability.- Chapter 22: Consumer society and "Conscious consumption": evidence from Brazilian Super Market.- Chapter 23: Best Practices On Quality Of Life Regarding The Impact Of Global Warming On Business Planning In México.- Chapter 24: Can Time Banks be a sustainable alternative for Refugees Social Integration in European Communities?.- Chapter 25: Potential Of Photovoltaic Energy in Mexico: Development and outlook.- Part V: Engaged Sustainability: Future Trends and Prospects.- Chapter 26: Education in Human Values: Planting the Seed of Sustainability in Young Minds.- Chapter 27: Low Carbon Economies (LCEs): International Applications and Future Trends.- Chapter 28: Supporting Socially Balanced, Environmentally Restorative and Resource Regenerative Economy: Developing and Implementing a Regional Ethical Circular Economy Innovation Strategy.- Chapter 29: Smart Cities: New Urbanism – New Agrarianism as a Path to Sustainability.- Chapter 30: The Sustainability Summit: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Engage the Whole System.- Chapter 31: Alternative Lifestyles for a Sustainable Future: Vignettes from an Urban Ecovillage.- Chapter 32: Agent-based Change in facilitating Sustainability Transitions – A multi-disciplinary literature review and “Call for Action”.- Chapter 33: Social Status, Ethicality and Environmental Conscientiousness: Accomplishing Positive Societal Change.

O autorze

Satinder Dhiman, PhD, EdD, MBA, MCOM serves as Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program and Professor of Management at Woodbury University’s School of Business.  He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Tilburg University, Netherlands; a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, Los Angeles; an MBA from West Coast University, Los Angeles; and an MCOM (with the gold medal) from the Panjab University, India. He has also completed advanced Executive Leadership programs at Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton.

Professor Dhiman teaches courses pertaining to ethical leadership, sustainability, organizational behavior & strategy, and spirituality in the workplace in the MBA program. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited over 17 management, leadership, and accounting related books and research monographs, including, most recently authoring: Holistic Leadership (Palgrave 2017); Gandhi and Leadership (Palgrave 2015), and Seven Habits of Highly Fulfilled People (Personhood 2012); and co-editing and co-authoring, with Dr. Marques, Spirituality and Sustainability (Springer 2016) & Leadership Today (Springer 2016).

He is the Editor-in-Chief of two multi-author Major Reference Works: Springer Handbook of Engaged Sustainability and Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment and Editor-in-Chief of Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment and editor Springer Series in Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership. Some of his forthcoming titles include: Leading without Power: A New Model of Highly Fulfilled Leaders; Bhagavad Gītā: A Catalyst for Organizational Transformation (both by Palgrave MacMillan); and Conscious Consumption: Diet, Sustainability and Wellbeing (Routledge, 2019).

Recipient of several national and international professional honors, Professor Dhiman is also the winner of Steve Allen Excellence in Education Award and the prestigious ACBSP International Teacher of the Year Award. He has presented at major international conferences and published research with his colleagues in Journal of Values-Based Leadership, Organization Development Journal, Journal of Management Development, Journal of Social Change, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, and Performance Improvement. He also serves as Accreditation Mentor and Site Visit Team Leader for the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) for various universities in America, Canada, Europe, and India.

Professor Dhiman is the Founder-Director of Forever Fulfilled, a Los Angeles-based Wellbeing Consultancy, that focuses on workplace wellness, sustainability, and self-leadership. 

 

Joan Marques, PhD, EdD, MBA has authored/co-authored/co-edited more than 14 books on management and leadership topics, including Business and Buddhism (2015), in which Buddhism is approached as a leadership psychology, and Leadership and Mindful Behavior Action, Wakefulness (2014), in which she provides directives to leaders to adopt a wakeful mindset and abstain from the sleepwalking mode. She is also the author of Courage in the Twenty-First Century (2013) and The Awakened Leader (2007), and co-author of, among others, Leading Spiritually (2014), Business Administration Education (2012), Laughter is the Best Teacher (2011), Stories to Tell Your OB Students (2011), From Me to We (2011), Managing in the 21st Century (2011), The Workplace and Spirituality (2009), and Spirituality in the Workplace (2007). 

Professor Marques is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of three scholarly journals: The Business Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Global Business Issues, and Interbeing, Journal of Personal and Professional Mastery. She presents a weekly radio program titled “De Andere Kant” (The Other Side) on Mart Radio, and has been a long-time columnist for De Ware Tijd (The True Times), one of the largest newspapers in Paramaribo, Suriname. More info about Joan Marques is available on her website, joanmarques.com