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Fitting Together the Building Blocks for Sustainability: a Revised Model for Integrating Ecological, Social, and Financial Factors Into Business Decision-making by Sissel A. Waage; Ken Geiser; Frances Irwin; Arthur B. Weissman; Michael D. Bertolucci; Pliny Fisk; George Basile; Stuart Cowan; Hank Cauley; Alexandra McPherson is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fitting Together the Building Blocks for Sustainability: a Revised Model for Integrating Ecological, Social, and Financial Factors Into Business Decision-making about?
Companies committed to integrating sustainability concerns into product decisions are confronted with the daunting task of assessing hundreds, or thousands, of materials and goods. Further complicating efforts have been the rapid growth of environmental and social assessment principles, strategies, actions, and tools. The lack of clarity on how existing approaches are complementary or distinct has resulted in ambiguities about pathways forward for companies. This current state of the field highlights the need to draw out interconnections between the wide range of current work on integrating environmental and social issues into material, product, and other business decisions. This articleddeveloped through collaboration among several environmental, social, and sustainability-oriented researchers and practitionersdaddresses this need through building upon pre-existing work [J. Cleaner Prod. 10(3) (2002) 197; J. Cleaner Prod. 8(3) (2000) 243]. It proposes adaptations on a framework for organizing the assessment field, including development of exemplary sustainable product characteristics and their inclusion in a ''strategic sustainable development'' decision-making model and process [
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- Author
- Sissel A. Waage; Ken Geiser; Frances Irwin; Arthur B. Weissman; Michael D. Bertolucci; Pliny Fisk; George Basile; Stuart Cowan; Hank Cauley; Alexandra McPherson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0959-6526)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)