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The Sustainability Handbook covers the complexities, challenges, and benefits of sustainability when pursued by corporate, academic, government, and nonprofi t organizations. It provides a blueprint on how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social, and environmental excellence. The handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools, including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries, and tips on selecting sustainability codes, an extensive collection of sample metrics, and more.
Tables of Contents:
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 a Sustainability Operating System: The Key Elements and Basic Structures
Chapter 5: Sustainability Operating System 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 Nongovernmental Organizations
Chapter 12: Approaches for Small and Struggling Companies
Chapter 13: Approach to Sustainability for Nongovernmental Organizations
Chapter 14: Approach to Sustainability for Governmental Organizations
Chapter 15: Approach to Sustainability for Colleges and Universities
Chapter 16: Keeping the Initiative Alive: Making the SOS Sustainable
Appendices:
Appendix 1: Summary of Sustainability Trends
Appendix 2: Sustainability-Related Codes of Organizational Behavior
Appendix 3: Sustainability-Related Management System Standards
Appendix 4: Planning Forms for Assessing 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 Sustainability Issues for Various Functional Groups
Appendix 7: Examples of Sustainability Metrics
Appendix 8: Sustainability Resources for Universities
