Includes index. Blackburn, W. R. (2007). The sustainability handbook : The complete management guide to achieving social, economic, and environmental responsibility. Washington, DC : Environmental Law Institute.

Introduction and executive summary -- Chapter 1: Addressing the confusion about sustainability: the typical executive view -- Chapter 2: Determining scope: an operational definition of sustainability -- Chapter 3: The value of sustainability: why bother? -- Chapter 4: Building an SOS: the key elements and basic structure -- Chapter 5: SOS standards: the roadmap for change -- Chapter 6: Strategic planning for focused sustainability improvement -- Chapter 7: Selecting goals and indicators -- Chapter 8: Bringing sustainability to the front line: deployment, integration, and alignment -- Chapter 9: Data systems, auditing, and other monitoring and accountability mechanisms -- Chapter 10: Transparent sustainability reporting -- Chapter 11: Stakeholder engagement: the role of NGOs -- Chapter 12: Approach to sustainability for small and struggling companies -- Chapter 13: Approach to sustainability for NGOs -- Chapter 14: Approach to sustainability for governmental organizations -- Chapter 15: Approach to sustainability for colleges and universities -- Chapter 16: Keeping the initiative alive: making the SOS sustainable

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