This book describes the path ahead. It combines system transformation research with political economy and change leadership insights when discussing the need for a great mindshift in how human wellbeing, economic prosperity and healthy ecosystems are understood if the Great Transformations ahead...

What has prompted the shift toward sustainability in numerous financial areas? Can investors' mindsets be changed to embrace a long-term view? Can shareholders and activists play a greater role in encouraging financial actors to behave more responsibly? These are some of the relevant topics that...

Sustainability Analysis provides a detailed exploration of current environmental thinking from a variety of perspectives, including institutional and psychological angles. Primarily focusing on macroeconomic policies and green national accounting, this book provides a strong basis for further...

This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges...

How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient material-efficient economies?...

Adolf Heinz Malinsky – Anmerkungen zu seiner Lebensarbeit -- Adolf Heinz Malinsky – Anmerkungen zu seiner Lebensarbeit -- Umweltcontrolling und Sustainability Performance Measurement -- Wie lässt sich die operative Umweltleistung von Unternehmen messen? – Streiflichter auf ausgewählte...

Können Sustainability Leader Überrenditen erzeugen? Und wenn ja, auf welche Art und Weise? Gunner Langer untersucht diese Fragen und verknüpft dabei die wissensbasierte Theorie der Unternehmung mit interdisziplinären Theorieelementen. Er zeigt die ökonomische Relevanz von...

This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially.This book is not about a wish list of impractical choices, but the reality of decisions faced by all those involved in supply chain management today.Our definition of sustainable...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...