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The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic, and Environmental Responsibility

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The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic, and Environmental Responsibility covers the complexities, challenges and benefits of sustainability as it is pursued by corporate, academic, government and non-profit 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 of sustainability codes and tips on how to select them;
  • Practical guidance on structuring the organization for sustainability and gaining support from management;
  • Overview of key sustainability trends and suggestions on how to use them in strategic planning; and
  • Extensive collection of sample metrics.
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.

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