scholarly journals An Approach to Sustainability Management across Systemic Levels: The Capacity-Building in Sustainability and Environmental Management Model (CapSEM-Model)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4910
Author(s):  
Annik Magerholm Fet ◽  
Haley Knudson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
System Complexity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Further Development

A toolbox for assessing the environmental impacts of processes, products and services has been gradually developed over the last 30 years. The tools and methods place attention on a growing holistic concern to also consider stakeholders’ views connected to impacts of the entire life cycle of products. Another change is the gradual increase in consideration of the economic and social dimensions of sustainability since the 1990s. This paper presents this development using two interlinked models that illustrate the changes from the scopes of time and system complexity. The two initial models are further merged into one, the Capacity-building in Sustainability and Environmental Management model (the CapSEM-model), which presents organizations a systemic way to transition to sustainability, seen from the scopes of system complexity and performance complexity. The CapSEM-model attempts to integrate the different dimensions of systems and of methodologies and their contribution to increased environmental and sustainability performance. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are further mapped onto the model as an example of how they can be useful in the transition to sustainability. The model is, therefore, a conceptualization and needs further development to specify accurate level boundaries. However, it has proven to be helpful for organizations that struggle to find a systematic approach toward implementing sustainability. This is described through a brief example from the manufacturing industry.

scholarly journals The Construction of an Environmental Management Model Based on Sustainability Indicators on a Higher Education Institution in Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efraín C. Nieblas-Ortiz ◽  
José L. Arcos-Vega ◽  
Juan J. Sevilla-García
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Management Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
International Importance ◽  
Development Goals

Without depreciating the importance of environmental regulations directed to university environmental managements systems in this country, nowadays, the instruments of international importance like the Sustainable Development Goals or ONU’s 2030 Agenda; as well as those of domestic nature, like sustainability indicators proposed by the Mexican Consortium of University Environmental Programs for Sustainable Development (Complexus) to measure the contribution of Higher Education Institutions to sustainability (HES), and those indicated by the Interinstitutional Committees for Higher Education Evaluation (CIEES) and the organisms that make up the Council for the Accreditation of Higher Education (COPAES), pose great challenges to universities as institutions that form human capital who are aware of their relationship with nature.This forces the university to rebuild its sustainability view based on the premise that all activities relative to its substantive functions are related to socio-environmental issues on the region.Due to this, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), coherent to its environmental management institutional plan, defined in the Institutional Development Plan, must structure a series of indicators which allow the evaluation of its sustainability policy.The purpose of this research is to develop an environmental management model bound to performance indicators that allow UABC to progressively assume the task of answering the environmental challenges posed by its surroundings, trying to strengthen its curricula, in order for its programs to be more relevant and appropriate with social, economic, cultural, and environmental priorities.

Analysis of the prospects for the introduction of a closed-loop economy in the Russian Federation using the example of the Kaluga region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.N. Nikulina ◽  
E.A. Cherikanova ◽  
A.V. Chelenko ◽  
V.V. Grishakova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Secondary Products ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Russian Federation

In a number of industrialized regions of the Russian Federation, even when using efficient high technologies in the manufacturing industry under the current linear economic model, especially in the context of pandemic (COVID-19) fails to implement the sustainable development goals in all of its ecological and economic requirements. This paper analyzes models and approaches to the implementation of the concept of renewable production and consumption in conditions of maximum use of resources, including those obtained by processing various types of waste. According to the analyzed one of the models, namely the circulation economic model, resources after consumption in the form of manufactured products and the resulting waste, suitable for processing into production resources, in the form of secondary. Within the framework of rational interaction of the industrially developed regions (Moscow and Kaluga), an experimental confirmation of the efficiency of waste processing of various types is given, by building an Ecotechnopark, implemented within the framework of public-private partnership, and obtaining secondary products. In the proposed circular economic model, resources after consumption in the form of production products are returned to production after processing. In addition, a possible indicator was identified and implemented that allows integrating traditional economic indicators into the "Green" gross national product (GNP), which is the sum of the natural capital of the region and its nominal GNP and is linked to the state of the ecosystem. Recommendations and conclusions on the performed studies are made.

scholarly journals Same Same but Different: How and Why Banks Approach Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Intermediary Role ◽  
Strategy Types ◽  
External Sustainability

Given their intermediary role and resulting influence on other industries, banks are pivotal in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), for which they approach ecological and social challenges in numerous ways. This study aims at creating a typology of the sustainability strategies that banks implement. To this end, 26 in-depth interviews were conducted within the German banking industry to detect patterns in the sustainable practices of these financial institutions. The strategy types identified are narrow, peripheral, balanced, and integrative, which are similar in structure but substantially different with respect to the kind of practices. Specifically, three main features distinguish these strategies. First, banks focus on either their core businesses or the peripheries of their business. Second, banks can concentrate on social or environmental issues. Third, within the peripheries of their businesses, banks can support external sustainability projects in terms of finances or content. It is also found that the choice of strategy is driven by varying combinations of business, social, and environmental motives. I thus explore the ways by which financial institutions contribute to the realization of the SDGs. The typology established in this work improves understanding with regards to the implementation of sustainability strategies and serves as inspiration to sustainability managers of banks. It also adds to sustainability research in the service context, which, unlike the manufacturing industry, is a widely under-researched setting.

scholarly journals Systemic Insights on the Integration of UN Sustainable Development Goals within the Norwegian Salmon Value Chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 12042
Author(s):  
Mohd Abualtaher ◽  
Turid Rustad ◽  
Eirin Skjøndal Bar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Step Method ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Industrial Value Chain ◽  
And Performance

This study proposes a conceptual framework that aims to gain insight into the integration of the sustainable development goals (SDG) within the Norwegian salmon value chain (NSVC). The proposed framework was developed by applying the systems engineering six-step method and validated through empirical findings from the NSVC. The framework’s application highlighted and analyzed the presence of the SDGs in corporate sustainability reports, academic curriculum, research, and governmental policies. This study uncovered the complexity-reduction elements within the system that drive SDG integration and assure their progress. The SDGs provide a global context for sustainability endeavors in the NSVC. A globally expanded value chain has an organic relationship with global sustainability terms and schemes. The existing practice of corporate sustainability annual reporting was found to be a significant channel for SDG communication. The novelty of this study was that it proposed a mind-map to understand SDG integration within an industrial value chain abstracted into three concepts: commitment, communication, and performance measurability.

scholarly journals Sustainable Strategic Management Model for Hotel Companies: A Multi-Stakeholder Proposal to “Walk the Talk” toward SDGs

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8652
Author(s):  
Ernestina Rubio-Mozos ◽  
Fernando E. García-Muiña ◽  
Laura Fuentes-Moraleda
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Management Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

As we reach the fifth anniversary of the Declaration of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the tourism sector responsible for over 10% of the world’s GDP still does not have an open-source, sustainable management criteria that would enable and empower them to “walk the talk” to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in the social sciences and business management literature by providing a theoretical Sustainable Strategic Management Model (SSMM) proposal for the Fourth Sector (4S), Small- and Medium-sized (SMEs) Hotel companies (4S-SM-HCs), which are committed and have the will to contribute firmly to the 2030 Agenda. Based on their corporate purpose and aligned with the SDGs, this article provides a holistic proposal with a multi-stakeholder approach, adding the SDG perspective. Through a qualitative research methodology based on two focus groups in which the main stakeholders and the management team of the 4S-SM-HC under examination took part, a theoretical SSMM is co-defined so that the hotel company can make significant contributions to the five areas of the SDGs. Basing their structure on the internationally recognized Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Criteria and co-created through social learning, this SSMM proposes four strategic management axis and develops ten principles of ethical performance (PEP). The main contributions of this article are two: (1) to provide an ecosystemic SSMM proposal to the 4S-SM-HCs to allow them to make significant contributions to the SDGs, and (2) to facilitate a methodological framework with a multi-stakeholder approach and SDG perspective to enable them to contribute to the wellbeing of people, the community and the planet.

Factors influencing the adoption of SDG reporting by large African and Asian companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirreza Kazemikhasragh ◽  
Antonella Francesca Cicchiello ◽  
Maria Cristina Pietronudo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Sustainability Disclosure ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Low And Middle Income

This article aims to investigate the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by large companies in low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, and the company characteristics that influence them to undertake such new sustainability reporting practices. Logistic regression analyses were applied to combine the data extracted from the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Disclosure Database and the Orbis database from Bureau van Dijk. The empirical results indicate that characteristics like the type of company, its economic performance and its engagement in voluntary sustainability programmes and external assurance are positively related to the adoption of SDG reporting. The results also show that some corporate, organizational and performance characteristics increase companies’ likelihood to adopt SDG reporting. Drawing on agency theory and legitimacy theory perspectives, this article contributes to the academic and practical understanding of factors influencing the adoption of SDG reporting by large companies in Asia and Africa’s low- and middle-income countries.

Delivering care around the world

2021 ◽  
pp. 361-372
Author(s):  
Julia Downing ◽  
Joan Marston
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
Different Parts

Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) is a relatively new and emerging field with great potential for helping children and families who are living with life-limiting conditions (LLC) globally. There is a growing recognition of the need to develop services for these children, but the overall picture remains one of huge variance in different parts of the world and even within countries. The evidence base is still small, there is a great need for more education, and considerable scope for further development. Broader awareness of the values and philosophy of CPC, its history and development, and its place in society will help promote CPC further. As the field increases, we will need to enhance the international roles of our own local children’s organizations, and continue to develop paediatric networks, as well as link into global priorities in healthcare such as public health, Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Sustainable Green Customers' Engagement through Social Media for Business Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
G. M. Sadman Tanvir ◽  
Mohammed Aktaruzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Consideration ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Further Development

In line with the Sustainable Development Goals given by United Nations, many countries are now working to integrate environmental consideration into the business decision-making process to amplify economic growth along with sustainable environmental protection. Hence, organizations have begun to adopt an environmental-friendly business process. However, it can be safe to state that any sustainable success of these 'greening' activities could be impossible without engaging and involving customers in the business process. Many companies started this strategy through different media, including social media. But, Sustainable Green Customer Engagement through social media is still an elusive term for the industry. There are questions around what would work for Sustainable Green Customer Engagement that requires scholarly effort. Hence, the primary aim of this study was to provide an in-depth understanding of this fundamental issue and then propose an appropriate implication of SGCE. There is a significant gap in the literature of SGCE, especially in the social media platform. The thematic analysis from this study will assist researchers in understanding the managing process of SGCE towards further development. Moreover, the implication from this study can help the organizations and policymakers to strategize enhancing greening initiatives, which eventually will improve environmental awareness and social wellbeing.

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