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Sustainable finance calls for unprecedented attention, in sight of promoting sustainability beyond the original focus on economic, social and environmental development. Much room remains for progress, as shown by the wide range of topics that fit into the sustainability agenda of the "Rio+20" Earth Summit. A key role can be played by the process of financial innovation, far from exhausted. Challenging tasks include a more massive recourse to public-private partnership models (such as JESSICA, JEREMIE and JASMINE) and to the best practices in sustainable finance. The adoption of the Equator Principles and sustainability indexes on a larger scale in lending and investing may significantly contribute to the sustainable - as well as smart and inclusive - growth that "Europe 2020" is aimed at.

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence corporate strategy. It also features a wide range of cases and an extensive discussion of tools to incorporate sustainability issues into strategic decision making, helping instructors and students to buil

AbstractSustainable development requires new planning methods that acknowledge many kinds of risks. There is a mismatch between the nature and imperatives of innovation on the one hand, and the prospects of reaching the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), on the other. This conceptual note clarifies the connections among innovation, risk, and sustainability, focusing especially on the urgencies of environmental sustainability. It argues that new methods of planning are a precondition of SDGs success, as it is reform of entrepreneurship practices. It notes promising methodological directions.

This volume reviews the state of the art in conducting sustainability assessments, including the range of methodologies and tools available. It describes current practice in OECD countries, as well as the continuing debate on quantifying and comparing diverse types of short- and long-term policy impacts. 

This is an engaging primer of the history of the sustainability movement from the 1600s to the present day, illuminating how sustainability evolved from a relatively marginal idea to the centerpiece of international accords, a top priority for governments and non-profit organizations, and a philosophy of hope and resilience with widespread appeal.

"Preface Sustainability is an ability: the ability to endure. In ecology, sustainability describes how biological species survive. For the environment, it is assessing whether or not project outputs can be produced without permanent and unacceptable changes in the environment. For humans, it is our long-term physical and cultural well-being. For mechanical systems and structures, it is maximizing reliability while conserving required resources and reducing waste. For an entity or an enterprise, it is the ability of the enterprise, its products, and its systems to remain competitive and productive long term, without failure, while minimizing waste. Sustainability and sustainable development have become popular goals. They have also become wide-ranging terms that can be applied to any entity or enterprise on a local or a global scale for long time periods. Sustainability has many interpretations. Recently, the term has been used more in the context of "green," which refers to having no negative impact on the environment, community, society, or economy (Bromley 2008). However, the traditional meaning centers on the words "to endure" or "to maintain" or "to survive," which is the context for sustainability used in this book. Here, sustainability means to adopt a strategy or prescription to maintain the ability of an entity or enterprise and its systems or services to survive with established performance requirements in the most effective and efficient manner possible over the entity's life cycle. Engineering for Sustainability is the third volume in a series of manuscripts under the title Sustaining the Military Enterprise. The first volume, An Architecture for a Lean Transformation (Mathaisel 2007),"--

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editor -- List of Figures -- Design and Production Process of Toy Prototypes Using Urban Forestry Waste -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Toys and Games in Children's Development -- 3 Description of the Toy Creation Process with Urban Forestry Waste -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- On Longevity and Lost Toys: Sustainable Approaches to Toy Design and Contemporary Play -- 1 Introduction: Where Are the Toys Going? -- 2 Perspectives on Play and Toys Today -- 3 Toys Within the Industries of Play -- 4 Toy Life Cycles in Children's and Adults' Play -- 5 Sustainability -- 5.1 Production Materials and Chemicals -- 6 Sustainability by Toy Design-An Overview -- 7 Approaches to Sustainable Play -- 8 Conclusions -- References -- Tips for Selecting Wood from Urban Afforestation for the Production of Toys: How the Sustainable Reuse of Waste Can Result in Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Properties Favorable to the Production of Toys -- 2.1 Anatomical Properties -- 2.2 Chemical Properties -- 2.3 Physical Properties -- 2.4 Mechanical Properties -- 3 Strategies for Classification and Reuse of Urban Wood Waste -- 3.1 Classification and Characterization -- 4 Problems Arising from the Use of Urban Wood Waste and How to Get Around Them -- 4.1 Possible Changes in the Chemical and Physical Properties of Urban Wood Waste -- 4.2 Possible Strategies and Solutions to Mitigate the Problems of Wood Waste from Urban Afforestation -- 5 Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- The Pile of Shame: The Personal and Social Sustainability of Collecting and Hoarding Miniatures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Miniatures and Miniaturing -- 2.2 The Pile of Shame -- 2.3 Sustainability and Consumption -- 3 Method and Data -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Practical Sustainability.

Almost 20 years after the term "sustainable development" was popularized in the Brundtland Report (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987), the U.S. government turned its attention towards application of the concept of sustainability to transport planning. In response to a 2003 request by the Secretary of Transportation, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council established a committee to consider how sustainability could be integrated into transport planning, chiefly through holding a conference on the topic. The committee's report concluded that "a goal of transportation planning should be to address transportation's unsustainable impacts including depletion of nonrenewable fuels, climate change, air pollution, fatalities and injuries, congestion, noise pollution, low mobility, biological damage, and lack of equity".