Business transitions a path to sustainability : : the CapSEM model / / edited by Annik Magerholm Fet.

This open access book represents a journey documenting the development of tools and methodologies over 3 decades and asks where the future lies. It further develops seminal work carried out under the auspices of the Capacity building in Sustainability and Environmental Management (CapSEM) project co...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition 2023.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 261 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Sustainability: challenges and opportunities
  • ch 1: Business Challenges in the Transition to Sustainability
  • ch 2: The CapSEM Model
  • ch 3: Sustainable Development Goals and CapSEM
  • Part II The Toolbox: Methodologies and Theories
  • ch 4: Input-output Analysis and Cleaner Production
  • ch 5: Looking Beyond the Factory Gates
  • ch 6: Communicating Product Life Cycle Performance through Labels and Declarations
  • ch 7 : Environmental Management Systems
  • ch 8: Analytical frameworks, indicators and performance evaluation
  • ch 9: Reporting Schemes
  • ch 10: Business Models for Sustainability
  • ch 11: Closing the loop: Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy and Material Flow Analysis
  • ch 12: Systems Engineering. Introduction, Methods and Tools
  • Part III From Theory to Practice: Case Studies
  • ch 13: Introduction to the Case Studies
  • ch 14: From Waste to Value – a story about Life Cycle Management in the Furniture Industry (Case study 1)
  • ch 15: The Role of Public Sector Buyers: Influencing Systemic Change in the Construction Sector (Case Study 2)
  • ch 16: CapSEM Applied to the Construction Sector (Case Study 3)
  • ch 17: Material Flow Analysis: Mapping Plastics within the Fishing Sector in Norway (Case Study 4)
  • ch 18: Environmental Management at Fiskerstrand Verft AS: a 30 year Journey (Case Study 5)
  • ch 19: A Transportation Planning Decision Support System (Case Study 6)
  • ch 20: First Steps towards Sustainable Waste Management (Case Study 7)
  • Part IV The Road Ahead
  • ch 21: Transition to Sustainability
  • ch 22: Helping business contribute to a sustainability transition: Archetypes of business models for sustainability
  • ch 23: Building Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Transformation
  • ch 24: The Way Forward?