The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 4
The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Mark Von Rosing
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 0 8 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 3 9 8 5 - 8
The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 4: The Body of Knowledge around Sustainability Transformation bridges the gap between academic theory and business practices, providing a compre… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Sustainability Handbook, Volume 4: The Body of Knowledge around Sustainability Transformation bridges the gap between academic theory and business practices, providing a comprehensive understanding of sustainability. Aimed at those with a mature Sustainability Portfolio Management approach, this volume delves into capturing and using Sustainability Drivers and Requirements. It builds on the innovative ideas presented in previous volumes, guiding readers through the complexities of integrating sustainability into core operations. The book highlights how global climate change poses enormous challenges and showcases the private sector's role in aligning practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book focuses on embedding sustainable innovations into organizational processes, capabilities, culture, and strategy, ensuring that sustainability becomes a tangible, operational reality.
Through specific case studies and insights from industry leaders, the book focuses on embedding sustainable innovations into organizational processes, capabilities, culture, and strategy, ensuring that sustainability becomes a tangible, operational reality.
- Provides step-by-step guidance on key procedures and methodologies
- Includes informative chapters that begin with a graphical representation of how the topic fits within the larger framework
- Presents extensive coverage of sustainability-related case studies and lessons learned
Academics and graduate students interested in sustainability; Managers and professionals across all sectors interested in sustainability tools and methodologies
PART I: The Need to Change
1. What this book covers and what it doesn't cover
2. Sustainability Drivers of Change
3. Shifting from Compliance to Leadership
4. The Role of Transformation in Sustainability
PART II: Environment
5. Introduction
6. Organisations Are Not Doing Enough to Move Towards Sustainability
7. Earth Overshoot Day and why it is so important
8. The Need to Understand the Ecological Footprint of Your Organisation
9. Thriving in Turbulent Times: Climate Adaptation for a Sustainable Future
10. Corporate biodiversity plan
11. Introduction to the Sustainability Management Lifecycle
12. Sustainable Toolbox
13. Conclusion
PART III: Social
14. Introduction
15. Sustainability as a part of your Digital Transformation Journey
16. The Sustainability Quick scan - Understand Where You Are in Your Journey
17. Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Sustainability Knowledge Building
18. Sustainability Measurements
19. Sustainability Transformation Requirement Management
20. Employee Well-being and Development
21. Stakeholder Collaboration and Partnerships
22. Build Core Sustainability Capabilities
23. How to create a sustainable culture
24. How to use Sustainability in your brand
25. The need to set up Sustainability Education, Training and Coaching
26. Conclusion
PART IV: Economic and Governance
27. Introduction
28. Embedding sustainability into your organization's DNA
29. Corporate Governance and Sustainability Leadership
30. Sustainability Business/Value Case
31. The Main Hurdles for Business Sustainability - And why companies don't embrace enough sustainability
32. Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainability Governance
33. Practice Guide: Transparency in Organizational Lobbying
34. Sustainability CoE
35. Sustainability Change Management
36. Sustainability Business Process Management
37. Rethinking Sustainable Finance Practices for a Better World
38. Sustainability Scorecards and Reporting
39. Sustainability Change Management to Support the Change Needed
40. Conclusion
PART V: Sustainability Transformation
41. Introduction
42. Sustainability Transformation Roadmap
43. Sustainability Maturity Analysis
44. Conclusion to Sustainability Handbook Volume IV
1. What this book covers and what it doesn't cover
2. Sustainability Drivers of Change
3. Shifting from Compliance to Leadership
4. The Role of Transformation in Sustainability
PART II: Environment
5. Introduction
6. Organisations Are Not Doing Enough to Move Towards Sustainability
7. Earth Overshoot Day and why it is so important
8. The Need to Understand the Ecological Footprint of Your Organisation
9. Thriving in Turbulent Times: Climate Adaptation for a Sustainable Future
10. Corporate biodiversity plan
11. Introduction to the Sustainability Management Lifecycle
12. Sustainable Toolbox
13. Conclusion
PART III: Social
14. Introduction
15. Sustainability as a part of your Digital Transformation Journey
16. The Sustainability Quick scan - Understand Where You Are in Your Journey
17. Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Sustainability Knowledge Building
18. Sustainability Measurements
19. Sustainability Transformation Requirement Management
20. Employee Well-being and Development
21. Stakeholder Collaboration and Partnerships
22. Build Core Sustainability Capabilities
23. How to create a sustainable culture
24. How to use Sustainability in your brand
25. The need to set up Sustainability Education, Training and Coaching
26. Conclusion
PART IV: Economic and Governance
27. Introduction
28. Embedding sustainability into your organization's DNA
29. Corporate Governance and Sustainability Leadership
30. Sustainability Business/Value Case
31. The Main Hurdles for Business Sustainability - And why companies don't embrace enough sustainability
32. Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainability Governance
33. Practice Guide: Transparency in Organizational Lobbying
34. Sustainability CoE
35. Sustainability Change Management
36. Sustainability Business Process Management
37. Rethinking Sustainable Finance Practices for a Better World
38. Sustainability Scorecards and Reporting
39. Sustainability Change Management to Support the Change Needed
40. Conclusion
PART V: Sustainability Transformation
41. Introduction
42. Sustainability Transformation Roadmap
43. Sustainability Maturity Analysis
44. Conclusion to Sustainability Handbook Volume IV
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443440861
- eBook ISBN: 9780443439858
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Mark Von Rosing
Mark von Rosing is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, researcher and board-room advisor. He is a pioneer in the field of climate control and Sustainability. Through his research, publications and effort with standard bodies (ISO, IEEE, OMG, CEN, NIST, LEADing Practice, NATO, UN, W3C) he has been involved of developing 200+ Enterprise Standards and 52 different Industry Standards. Beyond, he left his mark in the field of process modelling having published the best-selling book series The Complete Business Process Handbook, published by Elsevier. Companies such as SAP AG have involved him in developing and leading their Sustainability approaches as well as the Sustainability architecture approaches.
Affiliations and expertise
Chairman, Global University Alliance, Denmark