scholarly journals Financing Change: The Financial Community, Eco-efficiency, and Sustainable Development. By S. Schmidheiny and F. Zorraqu’n, with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (1996) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Reviewed by Jerry A. Moles

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry A. Moles
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Hsin Rau ◽  
Mary Deanne M. Lagapa ◽  
Po-Hsun Chen

The number of consumers with green awareness have grown these days and as a result they have turned to purchase eco-friendly products. For this reason, this study aims to propose a method for eco-design based on the anticipatory failure determination method to develop eco-design products. By using eco-design concepts adopted from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the process will limit the failures and issues related to environmental impact in product design. The proposed method for eco-design product in this study follows the following procedure. First, we analyze product failure. Second, we propose the determination of the non-green phenomenon of the failure. Thirdly, we integrate the intensified non-green phenomenon to generate non-green hypotheses and fourthly, we eliminate each non-green phenomenon hypothesis by introducing the contradiction matrix of TRIZ for obtaining solutions. Finally, we assess alternative eco-design solutions by evaluation. To verify the practicality of the new procedure, a washing machine is used as an example for illustration.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (99) ◽  
pp. 917-943
Author(s):  
Robson Malacarne ◽  
Janette Brunstein

Abstract The adoption of the logic of developing sustainable development (SD) competences in the business environment has grown both in the literature in the area and in business initiative programs. One player that emerges with the aim of assuming leadership in this process is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This article aims to answer the following research question: Are the WBCSD’s discourses and initiatives for developing sustainability competences spaces of various translations of corporate sustainability or a place for reaffirming logocentric and definitive discourses on the theme? For this, we analyzed the institutional documents (Vision 2050 and Action 2020) and carried out a series of on-site visits at the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs. In addition, we conducted a set of in-depth interviews with the managers and participants in the initiatives for developing sustainability competences (DSC). The data were analyzed according to the categories of Derrida’s deconstruction process. The analysis of the educational initiatives of the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs showed that they include the various discourses on corporate sustainability in their formative approach; however, logocentric and definitive thinking about the theme is reaffirmed in that the way the Vision 2050 guidelines are carried out is limited to the application of management tools.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Claudia García García ◽  
Catalina B. García García ◽  
Román Salmerón Gómez

En la actualidad, el concepto de desarrollo sostenible es un pilar fundamental y un importante reto para el crecimiento y el progreso en los países desarrollados. Este concepto puede definirse como el tipo de desarrollo que cubre las necesidades del presente sin comprometer las necesidades de las generaciones futuras. Por otra parte, para el World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), la eficiencia medioambiental vendría determinada por un conjunto de actividades que satisfacen las necesidades humanas y que otorgan calidad de vida al mismo tiempo que consiguen minimizar el impacto medioambiental progresivamente. Por tanto, con estas dos definiciones, está claro que la eficiencia medioambiental es una variable clave para el desarrollo sostenible, pero ¿hay alguna variable que esté influyendo directamente en este tipo de eficiencia? Con este trabajo se ha descubierto que la disponibilidad o disposición tecnológica se trata de un factor influyente en la eficiencia medioambiental. Para la UE, la eficiencia medioambiental está relacionada con la disposición tecnológica de manera que la disponibilidad tecnológica explica parte de la eficiencia medioambiental pero no se trata de un factor determinante. En otras palabras, un alto índice de disposición tecnológica implica un score de eficiencia alto, pero no viceversa. Se usará la metodología Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) para obtener los scores de eficiencia, y para el índice de disponibilidad tecnológica se usará el desarrollado por The World Economic Forum. Una vez los datos sobre eficiencia medioambiental hayan sido obtenidos, se aplica un modelo de regresión para profundizar en el estudio esta relación, eficiencia medioambiental y disponibilidad o disposición tecnológica.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (99) ◽  
pp. 917-943
Author(s):  
Robson Malacarne ◽  
Janette Brunstein

Abstract The adoption of the logic of developing sustainable development (SD) competences in the business environment has grown both in the literature in the area and in business initiative programs. One player that emerges with the aim of assuming leadership in this process is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This article aims to answer the following research question: Are the WBCSD’s discourses and initiatives for developing sustainability competences spaces of various translations of corporate sustainability or a place for reaffirming logocentric and definitive discourses on the theme? For this, we analyzed the institutional documents (Vision 2050 and Action 2020) and carried out a series of on-site visits at the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs. In addition, we conducted a set of in-depth interviews with the managers and participants in the initiatives for developing sustainability competences (DSC). The data were analyzed according to the categories of Derrida’s deconstruction process. The analysis of the educational initiatives of the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs showed that they include the various discourses on corporate sustainability in their formative approach; however, logocentric and definitive thinking about the theme is reaffirmed in that the way the Vision 2050 guidelines are carried out is limited to the application of management tools.


Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.


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