Die sparsame und effiziente Nutzung von Rohstoffen gilt als Schlüsselelement für eine auf Nachhaltigkeit ausgerichtete Wirtschaftspolitik in Europa und als bedeutender Faktor für die Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen. Die Autoren beleuchten das Ressourcenmanagement aus...

Das vorliegende Buch analysiert den öffentlichen Beschaffungsprozess und untersucht, weshalb die öffentlichen Einkäufer auf Nachhaltigkeitskriterien oftmals keine Rücksicht nehmen. Florian Hepperle erforscht, welche Hemmnisse einem Mehr an Nachhaltigkeit in der öffentlichen Beschaffung im...

Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Motives -- Consumer Markets in Closed-Loop Supply Chains -- Market Behavior Torwards Remanufactured Products -- Assessing Consumers' Valuations of Socially Responsible Products with Controlled Experiments -- Profit-Driven Environmental...

Climate change and its implications for consumers and policymakers, have been discussed extensively. Adrian Renner provides a unique perspective on how stockholders react if companies move towards a carbon-conscious future. A multi-country event study approach was used to analyze stock market...

Green Office -- Ökonomische und ökologische Potenziale nachhaltiger Arbeitsund Bürogestaltung -- Green Building -- Nachhaltiges Bauen und Bewirtschaften -- Nachhaltige Gebäudehüllen – Anforderungen und Lösungsansätze für Büros -- Beleuchtung von Büroumgebungen mit Tages- und...

This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation from a ‘brown’ to ‘green’...

It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it. Due to the...

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability. It assesses the gap between how developed and developing countries have integrated sustainability issues in their industrial policies, and how they should have ideally done so. The book looks at the specific issues...

In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. Firms that decide to act more sustainable have to bear in mind that they do not only need resources for economic activities today, but that they will need these tomorrow as well. This leads to contradictory...