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E-book A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility

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Since the Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth century, there have been tremendous increases in both production and population growth. In the 1960s, the society began to consider the relationship between industrial development, environmental degradation, and the costs it imposed on everyone in one way or another. The United Nations (UN) initiated the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), later known as the Brundtland Commission, which issued a report in 1987 called Our Common Future. From there, the term “sus-tainable development” was born. Since then, society has been increas-ingly concerned with the topic. Yet, global production and consumption continue to grow at an unsustainable rate.While today around one tenth of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, people in industrialized countries are overconsuming (Si et al., 2020). If everybody in the world enjoyed the same lifestyle as peo-ple in the European Union (EU) we would need three planet Earths. Currently, according to the Global Footprint Network, we need an equivalent of 1.7 Earths to provide the resources we use and to absorb our waste. We are living in a world with major economic inequalities, over-pollution and resource depletion. There are currently over 40 million people enslaved in the world, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) are con-sistently increasing, and more than 20 percent of the world’s animal spe-cies are at risk of extinction. Clearly, continuing on this path will ruin our planet, both from a societal and an environmental perspective.To respond to these global challenges, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were officially adopted in 2015 by 193 UN member states. Efforts to achieve these goals by 2030 are well on their way and the role of business is crucial. Even though environmental and social problems are perceived as challenges, they can also be approached as opportunities. Companies are spending more time, focus, and money on the pursuit of sustainability. Today, 90 percent of CEOs state that sustainability is important to their company’s success, 88 percent of business students think social and environmental issues should be a priority, and almost 70 percent want to incorporate environmental issues in their next job (Hoffmann, 2018). Even though corporations are aware of the challenges and opportunities associated with sustainability and want to contribute, many of their efforts are inefficient, leading to time and money wasted. New business models, sustainable business strategies, system and sys-temic change, circular economies are all examples of potential solutions, which together with a global change of mindset are necessary to achieve the SDGs. This book sets out to address the role of businesses and their responsibilities for reaching these goals. I have researched these topics associated with sustainability in corporations, organizations, and educa-tional institutions—nationally and internationally—for almost 30 years.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

654.408 DIT a

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

285 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030882037

Klasifikasi

654.408

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Social Responsibility of Management

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