The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic, and Environmental Responsibility (Environmental Law Institute) - Softcover

Blackburn, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585761028 ISBN 13: 9781585761029

Publisher: Environmental Law Institute, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

William Blackburn has worked in the area of corporate sustainability for several decades and is a popular lecturer on the topic. He successfully led sustainability initiatives within a major global corporation and continues to provide guidance on the topic to companies, universities, governments, standards bodies and non-profit firms around the world.

Review:

"A truly comprehensive review of sustainable development as it relates to organizations large and small. This book will help managers to think about the impact of their business on the people they employ, their customers, their shareholders, the environment and society at large. It also puts the many tools and guidelines in a context which allows for thoughtful selection." (Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American plc)

About this edition

• Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1585761028
• ISBN 13: 9781585761029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 787