SIMPLIFYING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY

Charu Jain

Description

Corporations are slowly realizing the impact of their business on the environment and society. They are also facing increasing pressure from their stakeholders to follow responsible business practices. Many companies are looking to incorporate and manage a sustainable business. However, they are unaware on where and how to start this transition.

This book explains the basics on how to incorporate sustainability into any business. It gives the simple understanding of the concept of sustainability, and the basic approaches to identify, implement and measure sustainability in any business.

Through the various examples given in this book of various industries, readers can identify which aspect of sustainability to adopt in their business, and the various steps that can be taken for its implementation and management.

This book aims to simplify and explain corporate sustainability to professionals, students and businessmen from all industries!

What Others Say:

This book by Dr. Charu Jain, Simplifying Corporate Sustainability: A Guide to Implementing Sustainable Practices, comes as a lifeline and breath of fresh air for anyone who would like to have a 360‐ degree view on sustainability in a lucid manner. In this publication, she brings to the fore her understanding of the subject and her experience therein, combining her educational pursuits and her practical work for many years. The book beautifully blends in the theoretical aspects and various elements of sustainability, along with the metrics and best practices, to implement and improve on the same. The inclusion of case studies and real‐life examples helps the reader to better relate to SIMPLIFYING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY and understand the core of the subject. Its relevance to successful businesses is what distinguishes it from other publications, which tend to delve solely on the philosophical and environmental aspect, which incidentally also stands covered herein. My compliments to Dr. Charu Jain for capturing the above in this publication, and I hope it can motivate many organizations and individuals to weave in sustainability into every aspect of their lives.

Happy reading!

Dilip Raghavan Chief Editor‐Publisher Colour Publications, India

Dr Charu Jain has attempted through this handbook to remind the readers about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that nations have to aspire for and achieve before 2020. Sustainability strategy is to be carved out to manage and measure it to enable environmental foot‐print measurements. I am sure that the global industry system shall make this as a handy tool‐box for human resource development through this simplified guidance document for sustainability practices to corporate responsibility for ensuring sustainability on our planet. Wishing all best reading experience,

Dr TP Rajendran Former ICAR‐Asst DG (Plant Protection) & ICAROfficer on Special Duty (NIBSM) Visiting Fellow Research
Information System for Developing Countries

"Sustainability" & "CSR", once cliché words as "nice to have" on the company agenda, have moved today to the "must have" essential focus of the industry. In her book "Simplifying Corporate Sustainability," Dr. Jain, with her vast experience, adeptly explains the fundamental understanding of this concept and then proceeds to the steps that need to be taken to implement and monitor its efficacy. This book is for corporates and professionals who would like to begin their journey in this area.

Ullhas M. Nimkar (M.Sc. Leeds, U.K., C. Col; FSDC, FTA), Chairman and Managing Director, NimkarTek Technical Services Pvt. Ltd.

To save the natural resources and restrict the environmental pollution in different areas is the biggest problem before the world. Dr. Charu Jain has done the great work by authoring the book to manage sustainability in all spheres of life.

P. K. Jain Civil Engineer and Business Management Academic

Sujets

• Sustainable Development
• Economics
• Development
• Business

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 29 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789811107801
• Langue: English

Extrait

This book by Dr. Charu Jain, Simplifying Corporate Sustainability: A Guide to Implementing Sustainable Practices, comes as a lifeline and breath of fresh air for anyone who would like to have a 360- degree view on sustainability in a lucid manner. In this publication, she brings to the fore her understanding of the subject and her experience therein, combining her educational pursuits and her practical work for many years. The book beautifully blends in the theoretical aspects and various elements of sustainability, along with the metrics and best practices, to implement and improve on the same. The inclusion of case studies and real-life examples helps the reader to better relate to SIMPLIFYING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY and understand the core of the subject. Its relevance to successful businesses is what distinguishes it from other publications, which tend to delve solely on the philosophical and environmental aspect, which incidentally also stands covered herein. My compliments to Dr. Charu Jain for capturing the above in this publication, and I hope it can motivate many organizations and individuals to weave in sustainability into every aspect of their lives. Happy reading!
Dilip Raghavan Chief Editor-Publisher Colour Publications, India
Dr Charu Jain has attempted through this handbook to remind the readers about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that nations have to aspire for and achieve before 2020. Sustainability strategy is to be carved out to manage and measure it to enable environmental foot-print measurements. I am sure that the global industry system shall make this as a handy tool-box for human resource development through this simplified guidance document for sustainability practices to corporate responsibility for ensuring sustainability on our planet. Wishing all best reading experience,
Dr TP Rajendran Former ICAR-Asst DG (Plant Protection) & ICAR-Officer on Special Duty (NIBSM) Visiting Fellow Research Information System for Developing Countries
“Sustainability” & “CSR”, once cliché words as “nice to have” on the company agenda, have moved today to the “must have” essential focus of the industry. In her book “Simplifying Corporate Sustainability,” Dr. Jain, with her vast experience, adeptly explains the fundamental understanding of this concept and then proceeds to the steps that need to be taken to implement and monitor its efficacy. This book is for corporates and professionals who would like to begin their journey in this area.
Ullhas M. Nimkar (M.Sc. Leeds, U.K., C. Col; FSDC, FTA), Chairman and Managing Director, NimkarTek Technical Services Pvt. Ltd .
To save the natural resources and restrict the environmental pollution in different areas is the biggest problem before the world. Dr. Charu Jain has done the great work by authoring the book to manage sustainability in all spheres of life.
P. K. Jain Civil Engineer and Business Management Academic
SIMPLIFYING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
A Guide To Implementing Sustainable Practices
DR. CHARU JAIN
Foreword By Dr TP Rajendran
Published by Dr. Charu Jain
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ISBN: 978-981-11-0780-1
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Foreword
Dr Charu Jain penned this book - “Simplifying Corporate Sustainability”.
The three chapters (1) Understanding Sustainability (2) Implementing Sustainability (3) Managing and Measuring Sustainability that encapsulates the essence of the global aspirations to prolong life without further damage to the surroundings of communities of flora and fauna. Perturbations due to immense human interventions in the name of discoveries and novelty of knowledge go into commerce for amassing wealth. Without heeding to the consequences of wanton exploitation of both natural resources and anthropogenic resources from those, one wonder how to sustain the balance of this life-boat that should be kept afloat in turbulent weather due to the series of climate change related impact.
The author focusses on the ‘people, planet and profit’ slogan to give the traction for elaborating dimension of sustainability. Implanting sustainability regulatory framework, the culture of labels and logos on products to establish conscious culture of sustainability in various products and processes shall get into consumerism. The driver of performance standard is the advocacy of compliance to standards that have international recognition and acclaim. The framework for defining and piloting the certified standards in the culture of corporate and industry has to arise from stakeholders: investors, employees, customers, government and non-government agencies and above all the sensitive human communities. The impact on flora and fauna from the rapid exploitation of science and knowledge from there to industrialization has been debated as the indices of rupture in equilibrium of natural principles. Recovery towards homeostasis is like the movement of a pendulum where harmony arises from the repeated disturbance of equilibrium.
Dr Charu Jain has attempted through this handbook to remind the readers about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that nations have to aspire for and achieve before 2020. Sustainability strategy is to be carved out to manage and measure it to enable environmental foot-print measurements. I am sure that the global industry system shall make this as a handy tool-box for human resource development through this simplified guidance document for sustainability practices to corporate responsibility for ensuring sustainability on our planet.
Wishing all best reading experience,
Dr TP Rajendran
Former ICAR-Asst DG (Plant Protection) & ICAR-Officer on Special Duty (NIBSM) Visiting Fellow Research Information System for Developing Countries India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road New Delhi-110003
Foreword
Sustainability has increasingly found mention in our daily lives, both personal and professional. While the concept has slowly but surely evolved from a catchphrase to a discretionary matter of choice in the last few years, it is now a matter of absolute necessity for organizations to charter their business strategy over the next couple of decades while remaining sensitive to the needs of the ecosystem around them. The ecosystem manifests itself externally in the form of the environment, the planet, and communities and internally in the form of human resources and business dynamics. Putting together a complex matrix to ensure that an organization can truly be sustainable is no easy task. For a matter that is so critical and well acknowledged by all, it is rather surprising that there are not too many authoritative writings on the subject. One of the reasons for this, besides the complex and nascent nature of the subject, could be the fact that not too many people have an all-encompassing view of the subject.
This book by Dr. Charu Jain, Simplifying Corporate Sustainability: A Guide to Implementing Sustainable Practices , comes as a lifeline and breath of fresh air for anyone who would like to have a 360-degree view on sustainability in a lucid manner. In this publication, she brings to the fore her understanding of the subject and her experience therein, combining her educational pursuits and her practical work for many years. The book beautifully blends in the theoretical aspects and various elements of sustainability, along with the metrics and best practices, to implement and improve on the same. The inclusion of case studies and real-life examples helps the reader to better relate to and understand the core of the subject. Its relevance to successful businesses is what distinguishes it from other publications, which tend to delve solely on the philosophical and environmental aspect, which incidentally also stands covered herein.
My compliments to Dr. Charu Jain for capturing the above in this publication, and I hope it can motivate many organizations and individuals to weave in sustainability into every aspect of their lives. Happy reading!
Dilip Raghavan
Chief Editor-Publisher Colour Publications, India
Preface
Our world is currently driven by increasing consumerism and consumption. We are long past the era of industrialization. Yet, the pillaging of our natural environment for economic growth has never been as high in history as it is today. Problems such as global warming and climate change have drawn attention to the growing need to shift towards sustainability. Sustainability promises a better tomorrow by helping us incorporate environmental and social concerns into our economic activities.
Corporations are slowly recognizing the need for adopting sustainability in their core functions. Increasing awareness among people and contributing positively towards the environment and society have helped corporations acknowledge the benefits of sustainability in their business.
I have always felt that sustainability is not merely a fundamental value is but also an important aspect of core business. Having worked in many industries for supply chain sustainability, I have personally noticed a shift in the attitude of industries from being negligent towards environmental and social issues towards adopting sustainability into core business functioning. However, there are many companies world