Sustainability is about the effective management of nonrenewable and nonreplenishable natural resources. These resources are limited and critical to maintaining ecological balance. A collective effort is required to balance our socio-economic needs with environmental needs. This could be achieved by re-evaluating policies and actions as to how they affect the environment. Sustainability requires changes in traditional practices of doing things and refocusing ourselves to the needs of the earth. This handbook explores the role of sustainability in achieving social development, environmental protection, and economic development. These three areas constitute what is referred to as the triple bottom line (TBL). Sustainability management may help organizations and their global supply networks to re-evaluate their policies, processes, programs, and projects in terms of triple bottom line. Sustainability helps to facilitate planning, implementing, reviewing, and improving an organization's actions and operations to meet ecological goals.
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ch. 1. Introduction to sustainability management / Christian N. Madu and Chu-hua Kuei -- ch. 2. Sustainable development / Douglas Crawford-Brown -- ch. 3. Corporate social responsibility and reporting / Giannis T. Tsoulfas and Costas P. Pappis -- ch. 4. Sustainability indicators and indices: an overview / Jianguo Wu and Tong Wu -- ch. 5. Benchmarking and process change for green supply chain management / Joseph Sarkis -- ch. 6. Developing an adaptive framework for sustainable supply networks / Dmitry Ivanov and Boris Sokolov -- ch. 7. Sustainable supply networks by design / Samir K. Srivastava -- ch. 8. Energy resource management / John F. Affisco -- ch. 9. Globalization, technology, and environment / Jorge Verissimo Pereira -- ch. 10. Japan for sustainability: opportunities, challenges, strategies, and practices / Yasuhiko Hotta -- ch. 11. Sustainability integration and economic performance / Marcus Wagner -- ch. 12. Total environmental quality management / Johannes Freiesleben -- ch. 13. Sustainable planning and decision making in multi-stakeholder contexts: transboundary watershed management / Lanka Thabrew, Robert Ries and George Hornberger -- ch. 14. Entrepreneurship and sustainability / Abeer Abdel Hamid Salem, Robert Anderson and Leo Paul Dana -- ch. 15. System dynamics and sustainability / Andreas GroBler and Jurgen Strohhecker -- ch. 16. Supply chains and sustainability / Giannis T. Tsoulfas and Costas P. Pappis -- ch. 17. Environmental auditing and compliance / Eunjung Shin and Eric W. Welch -- ch. 18. Sustainable development through global learning and teaching / Birgitta Norden and Elsie Anderberg -- ch. 19. Environmental information systems / Steven P. Frysinger -- ch. 20. Advanced environmental management and innovation: a theoretical framework / Jose Manuel de la Torre-Ruiz ... [et al.] -- ch. 21. Environmental assessment tools / Grace K. C. Ding -- ch. 22. A holistic approach toward corporate responsibility / Tarja Ketola -- ch. 23. Academia-corporate on campus sustainability collaboration: an exploration of the construct / Phil Cook and Anshuman Khare -- ch. 24. Local climate policies in Japan: a case study of Nagoya City's strategy / Noriko Sugiyama -- ch. 25. Waste minimization and cleaner production programs in the Asia-Pacific region / Zhang Yi and Tay Joo Hwa. ; 8 ch. 26. Sustainable solid waste management for developing Asian countries: a case study of Phitsanulok Municipality, Thailand / Janya Sang-Arun and Magnus Bengtsson -- ch. 27. Sustainable municipal solid waste management and recovery / Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Maria Grazia Gnoni and Giovanni Mummolo -- ch. 28. Developing environmental action plans toward sustainability: the Taiwan experience / P. C. Chiang -- ch. 29. Sustainable supply chain initiatives in the Korean automotive industry / Su-Yol Lee and In-Mo Cheong -- ch. 30. A European approach of environmental costs: a case study in the Spanish road freight transport industry / Vera Ferron-Vilchez and Juan Alberto Aragon-Correa -- ch. 31. Energy planning for sustainable development in India / Bimlesh Kumar and Rahul B. Hiremath -- ch. 32. Vietnam's sustainable development policies: vision vs. implementation / Debra Lam -- ch. 33. Sustainability management in agriculture - A systems approach / Buddhi Marambe and Pradeepa Silva -- ch. 34. Sustainable supply chain initiatives in the Brazilian construction industry / K. R. A. Nunes and L. Schebek -- ch. 35. Sustainable development: a marketing perspective / Min H. Lu -- ch. 36. Environmental service operations: challenges and opportunities / George I. Kassinis and Andreas C. Soteriou -- ch. 37. Technological trajectories and sustainability: an intersector analysis of Brazilian subsidiaries of Swedish multinational corporations / Rita Santos, Folke Snickars and Evando Mirra -- ch. 38. An ANP modeling approach for carbon management of supplier selection in green supply chains / Chia-Wei Hsu and Allen H. Hu -- ch. 39. Environmental decision making: road maps and management science tools / Chu-hua Kuei and Janice Winch -- ch. 40. Corporate sustainable development: a review and development of a research model / Wing S. Chow and Yang Chen -- ch. 41. Developing design systems for sustainability / Chu-hua Kuei and Chinho Lin.
