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Managing sustainability is fast becoming critical to business success - to meeting customer and stakeholder expectations. The Sustainability Pocketbook is for managers who want to get involved in this area but are not sure where to start or what they can realistically do. You may not have direct responsibility for environmental issues within your job, but you can make a difference. Starting by defining and demystifying the topic, the Sustainability Pocketbook sets out a model for sustainability within six main areas of activity (environment, workplace, supply chain, marketplace, stakeholders a

Sustainability is one of the key issues in today's society, as confirmed by the increasing attention of governments, media, academia and the industry. In the context of sustainable development, businesses that are often referred to as part of the problem can become part of the solution. This book presents the state of the art of sustainability in corporations from a number of perspectives, which include: economy, finance, measurement and reporting, organizing for sustainability, green products, green buildings and IT. The individual chapters provide valuable insights for pursuing future research and define a proper research agenda for the years to come. Further, the relevance of the topics addressed makes the book essential reading for academics, practitioners, consultants and more generally, for all those interested in business evolution and sustainability. The book was written by prominent researchers from Italy, India, the USA and the UK.

The contents of the book reflect that interdisciplinary approach, and include the following topics: Sustainable Development and Planning; Energy and Sustainability; Food and Environment; Water Resources Issues; Sustainable Tourism; and Waste Management and Soil Recovery

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Note to all Contributors -- Note to the Reader -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- PART 1: Sustainability: Toward the Unification of Some Underlying Principles and Mechanisms -- 1: Toward a Sustainability Science -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. What does unification mean? -- 1.3. Coming back to sustainability: how many "sustainabilities"? -- 1.4. Sustainability: what kind of unification? An integration issue? -- 1.5. What kind of paradigm do we have to integrate? -- 1.6. The issue and the implementation of a new dimension -- 1.7. Extensions of the concept -- 2: Sustainability in Complex Systems -- 2.1. Preamble: theories of interconnected systems -- 2.2. Analysis of feedback phenomena in an assembly manufacturing cell -- 2.3. Application to complex systems: quantitative characteristics of a deterministic chaos -- 2.4. General considerations about interactions in networked organizations -- 2.5. Role of feedback in mimicry and ascendancy over others -- 2.6. Network theory: additional characteristics due to their new structure -- 2.7. Simplexification -- 2.8. Convergences in network theory -- 3: Extension: From Complexity to the Code of Thought -- 3.1. The code of thought: effects of cognition and psyche in global sustainability -- 3.2. Is sustainability the only technological and technocratic approach? -- 3.3. The three laws of sustainability: prediction and anticipation in complex systems -- 3.4. Consequence: toward a new dimension -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. Indicators for monitoring the EU sustainable development strategy -- PART 2: Operationalization: Methods, Techniques and Tools - the Need to Manage the Impact -- 4: From Context to Knowledge: Building Decision-making Systems -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. How about obtaining a sustainable knowledge?.