The book is intended as a primary resource for Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), all professionals with interest in sustainability as well as sustainability courses at CBS International Business School and other universities. It starts by reviewing the challenges of sustainability (environmental, social, economic, and governance). The basics of life cycle thinking are explained, looking at Life Cycle Assessment/LCA, Life Cycle Costing/LCC, Social LCAs, and Life Cycle Management. These are applied to sustainable strategy development, sustainable product development, sustainable supply chain management and logistics, sustainable production, sustainable consumption, circular economy, sustainable digitalization, sustainable finance, sustainable employee relations, sustainable advocacy, law and policymaking, etc.to show how each person in each profession and role can act sustainably and how to democratize sustainability.
Introduction The global Challenge.- Fundamentals - Holistic Life Cycle
Thinking.- Typical life cycle performance differences.- Sustainable Strategy
Development and Planning.- Sustainable Product Development.- Sustainable
Supply Chain Management and Purchase.- Sustainable Goods Transportation.-
Sustainable Production.- Sustainable Consumption and Use.- Sustainable
End-of-Life Operations.- Sustainable Digitalization.- Sustainable employee
relations.- Sustainable Stakeholder relations.- Sustainable Finance.-
Sustainable Policy Making, Judiciary and Advocacy.- Sustainable Actions by
Everybody.- Bibliography.
Wulf-Peter (Ph.D., Environmental Engineering) worked for more than 26 years in the automotive industry in various positions related to sustainabilitythe last 10 years as European Director. He served also as Assistant Professor of RMIT, Melbourne, and is Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. He is now with CBS International Business School as Endowed Chair of Technical Sustainability Management.
