The sustainability handbook : the complete management guide to achieving social, economic and environmental responsibility

The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries of sustainability codes and tips on selecting them, an extensive collection of metrics and a wealth of supplementary reference material. This is the essential reference for every organization in pursuit of sustainability.

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William R. Blackburn is a lawyer and leading sustainability consultant with three decades of experience

Acknowledgments	p. ix
About the Author	p. xi
Introduction and Executive Summary	p. xiii
Chapter 1 Addressing the Confusion About Sustainability: The Typical Executive View	p. 1
Chapter 2 Determining Scope: An Operational Definition of Sustainability	p. 17
Chapter 3 The Value of Sustainability: Why Bother?	p. 33
Chapter 4 Building an SOS: The Key Elements and Basic Structure	p. 123
Chapter 5 SOS Standards: The Roadmap for Change	p. 163
Chapter 6 Strategic Planning for Focused Sustainability Improvement	p. 189
Chapter 7 Selecting Goals and Indicators	p. 225
Chapter 8 Bringing Sustainability to the Front Line: Deployment, Integration, and Alignment	p. 257
Chapter 9 Data Systems, Auditing, and Other Monitoring and Accountability Mechanisms	p. 281
Chapter 10 Transparent Sustainability Reporting	p. 309
Chapter 11 Stakeholder Engagement; The Role of NGOs	p. 373
Chapter 12 Approach to Sustainability for Small and Struggling Companies	p. 419
Chapter 13 Approach to Sustainability for NGOs	p. 431
Chapter 14 Approach to Sustainability for Governmental Organizations	p. 441
Chapter 15 Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universities	p. 477
Chapter 16 Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS Sustainable	p. 543
Appendices
Appendix 1 Summary of Sustainability Trends	p. 551
Appendix 2 Sustainability-Related Codes of Organizational Behavior	p. 647
Appendix 3 Sustainability-Related Management System Standards	p. 687
Appendix 4 Planning Forms for Assessing and Prioritizing Sustainability Risks and Opportunities	p. 703
Appendix 5 Method for Calculating Savings and Cost Avoidance for Baxter's Environmental Financial Statement	p. 709
Appendix 6 Examples of Sustainability Issues for Various Functional Groups	p. 713
Appendix 7 Examples of Sustainability Metrics	p. 725
Appendix 8 Sustainability Resources for Universities	p. 751
Acronyms	p. 779
Index	p. 789

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