Triple bottom line, sustainability and sustainability assessment, an overview

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serenella Sala
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Bottom Line

scholarly journals MEASURING UP: A CASE FOR REDRAWING THE SYSTEM BOUNDARIES OF SUSTAINABILITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Sturlaugson ◽  
Rebekah Radtke ◽  
Anita Lee-Post
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
The University

The primary goal of this paper is to examine the role that sustainability assessment and reporting plays in creating a sustainable campus for academic excellence. A prototype sustainability assessment and reporting system is developed for triple bottom line impact analysis of the built environment of the newly expanded and renovated Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. The prototype system utilizes a toolkit to collect environmental, social, and economic data of the building's built environment for sustainable design performance analyses. The system also employs a comprehensive set of sustainability metrics to measure and report the building's triple bottom line impacts on academic success. In sum, our study succeeds in (1) expanding the definition and evaluation of campus buildings' sustainability to include environmental, social, and economic factors, (2) providing campus stakeholders with a toolkit for assessing the sustainability of campus buildings, and (3) creating a comprehensive sustainability metric for benchmarking and tracking campus buildings' triple bottom line impacts on academic success.

scholarly journals The application of the triple bottom line approach to sustainability assessment: The case study of the UK automotive supply chain

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Azevedo ◽  
Miguel Barros
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Sustainability Index ◽  
Automotive Supply Chain ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Automotive Supply

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to assess the level of sustainability of the UK automotive supply chain considering simultaneously the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) representing the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approach.Design/methodology/approach: The assessment of the automotive SC’ sustainability is based on the framework proposed by Salvado, Azevedo, Matias and Ferreira (2011) and uses the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method to aggregate economic, environmental and social indicators into a unique index. A case study on the UK automotive industry is used and the data do perform this study is collected from the sustainability reports of the UK’ automotive companies.Findings and Originality/value: The proposed framework represents an important benchmarking tool, offering managers the possibility for assessing the sustainability behaviour of its supply chain and compare it with other supply chains. Once identified the dimension of sustainability where the company or the supply chain is worst performer managers can work closer to their supply chain’ partners in order to improve the performance of those dimension of sustainability.Research limitations/implications: One limitation of the suggested approach is related to the ambiguity of the sustainability’ indicators selection and the definition of weights for each sustainability dimension.Practical implications: The assessment of the SC sustainability by using the suggested framework to compute a SC sustainability index offers managers an opportunity for assessing the level of sustainability of each individual company and the corresponding SC in a very easy way. It also represents an opportunity for improving company performance. In this way managers can use the information on the sustainability index to help adjust their company's behaviour and improve their economic, social and environmental performance.Originality/value: The proposed framework represents a contribution in the area of index construction and a valuable component of organizational management systems and monitoring programs.

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