Practical sustainability strategies : how to gain a competitive advantage / / Nikos Avlonas, George P. Nassos
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| Autore: |
Avlonas Nikos <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Practical sustainability strategies : how to gain a competitive advantage / / Nikos Avlonas, George P. Nassos
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 658.4/083 |
| Soggetto topico: | Business enterprises - Environmental aspects |
| Industrial management - Environmental aspects | |
| Sustainable development | |
| Social responsibility of business | |
| Altri autori: |
NassosGeorge P
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| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Urgency to adopt sustainability -- Development of sustainability concept and CSR -- The C.E.R.E.S. and other principles -- The natural step -- Eco-effective vs. eco-efficient: sustainability vs. being "less bad" -- Extended product responsibility and "servicizing" -- Systems thinking leads to "tunneling through the cost barrier" -- Environmental innovation through biomimicry -- Base of the pyramid -- Sustaining fisheries -- Green buildings -- Green chemistry, nanotechnology and big hairy audacious goal -- Sustainability and beyond -- Standards and guidelines for managing sustainability -- The corporation and its stakeholders -- Sustainability reporting -- Metrics for sustainability -- Life cycle analysis and carbon footprint -- Water footprint -- Green marketing, communication and green washing -- Epilogue : where do we go now? |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Strategies for Implementing Sustainable Development in Businesses provides more than ten sustainable strategies and tools that can be implemented by organizations to improve their competitive business advantage, while also providing a positive impact to the community and workplace. This vital book for R&D chemists and engineers and process designers provides economic justification of sustainability with examples. Case studies based on the authors' vast experience with many leading companies illustrate each sustainable strategy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Practical sustainability strategies |
| ISBN: | 1-118-78737-4 |
| 1-118-78747-1 | |
| 1-118-78749-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818835603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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