The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 2

The Sustainability Handbook: Volume 2 provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between academic theory and business practices. Global climate change poses enormous environmental challenges, and societies across the world must adapt and innovate to further the goals of sustainability for present and future generations. The private sector especially must find new ways of doing business to align their practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community. Using a conceptually structured framework throughout, the book examines the latest academic research to summarize what environmental, social, and economic sustainability actually means in different contexts. Using numerous specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book shows how to strategically integrate sustainability into the organization, with extensive focus on policies, incentives, measures, operations, production, consumption, and lifecycle management. Volume 2 explores the concept of Radical Sustainability within an enterprise and why it is needed. With examples from zero waste to eliminating use of rare earth resources, triggering sustainable practices to cause related marketing, and sustainability responsibility to external transparency over internal incidents, this volume offers practical solutions for those who desire to progress from a Sustainable Strategy to an effective Sustainability Portfolio Management approach. Underpinned by international research-based evidence, it explores associated trends and drivers within the marketplace and how innovative environmental, social, economic and governance aspects can be considered and solutions applied.

1. Sustainability: Innovating and Transformation is needed Part 1 -The Sustainability Practices 2. How to use Best, Industry and Leading Practices 3. Why you need Sustainable Portfolio Management 4. Sustainability Portfolio Management Part 2 - The Way of Working 5. Working with the Sustainability LifeCycle 6. Sustainability Analysis 7. Sustainability Design & Development 8. Sustainability Deployment 9. Sustainability Governance 10. Continuous Sustainability Improvement Part 3 - The Way of Execution 11. Towards a conceptual framework for sustainable project portfolio management 12. Agile Sustainability 13. Sustainability Alignment 14. Sustainability Tagging - Classification and categorization 15. Sustainability and Outsourcing 16. Sustainable outsourcing partner selection and evaluation using an integrated BWM-VIKOR framework 17. Sustainability Artefacts 18. Sustainability Classification and categorization 19. Sustainability Artefacts Part 4 -The Way of Changing 20. How to develop your Sustainable Maturity 21. Culture aspects -ingredients to face uncertainty 22. Sustainability Change Management Part 5 - The Sustainability way of Modelling 23. The need to model, engineer and architect Sustainability 24. Sustainability Automation- Link between Sustainability models and information models 25. Architectural considerations Part 6 - The Way you can contribute 26. Everybody talks, few walk the talk 27. What can you do in the organization 28. What can you do in social environment