early as the 1970s‚ "sustainability" was employed to describe an economy "in equilibrium with basic ecological support systems."[3]Ecologists have pointed to The Limits to Growth‚[4] and presented the alternative of a "steady state economy"[5] in order to address environmental concerns. The concept of sustainable development has in the past most often been broken out into three constituent parts: environmentalsustainability‚ economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability. More recently‚ it
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YTL Corporation Berhad. (2012). Philosophy. Retrieved February 13‚ 2014‚ from http://www.ytl.com/philosophy.asp YTL Corporation Berhad YTL Corporation Berhad. (2013). Sustainability Report 2013. Retrieved February 18‚ 2014‚ from http://www.ytl.com/reports/YTL%20Corporation%20Berhad_Sustain ability%20Report%202013.pdf YTL Sustainability Division
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accounting and sustainability including but not limited to the issues around reporting‚ relevance‚ risk management and compliance‚ measurement‚ auditing and stakeholder theory of sustainable issues. To first understand these links to accounting we need to know what sustainability means in this accounting context. Sustainability in accounting deals with the social and environmental side of accounting. Originally accounting only dealt with the economic side and making a profit. Sustainability deals with
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Could one‚ by emulating the design and structure of a boxfish‚ improve the sustainability of the motor industry‚ by decreasing material usage in construction and improve rigidness with aerodynamics‚ while maintaining strict safety-measures‚ in motor vehicles? Biomimicry is an attempt at solving complex human sustainability problems by emulating structures‚ models and systems found in nature. These structures‚ models and systems that one seeks to emulate have as a result of trial-and-error and a long
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Ph.D. & Tanya J. Hall (2011) The Triple Bottom Line: What Is It and How Does It Work? – Indiana Business Research Center Philips.com: http://www.philips.com/about/sustainability/ecovision/index.page Jones‚ G. & Sridhar‚ K. (2012) The three fundamental criticisms of the Triple Bottom Line approach: An empirical study to link sustainability reports in companies based in the Asia-Pacific region and TBL shortcoming‚ published online: Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2012‚ pp. 98-109 Koninklijke Philips
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priority to the sustainability of agriculture. ICAR and the State Agricultural Universities‚ which comprise the National Agricultural Research System (NARS)‚ also emphasize the importance of incorporating the sustainability perspective into their research programmers. But this requires an analytical framework for sustainable agriculture that can guide a transition from research and education directed towards productivity goals to research that addresses productivity issues keeping sustainability concerns
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reform accompanying current ‘leading edge’ reporting initiatives‚ together with that potentially ensuing from the proposed OFR regulations. To this end‚ they draw upon a number of reports short-listed for the Social and Sustainability categories of the 2003 ACCA UK Sustainability Reporting Awards Scheme‚ together with an analysis of the somewhat long drawn out processes which led to the publication of the DTI’s OFR draft regulations. They are particularly concerned with assessing their potential
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two visionaries‚ Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight‚ who set out to reinvent athletic footwear. Over the past decade‚ our drive to design and produce better‚ faster‚ lighter products has evolved into an even more ambitious agenda – to embed long term sustainability into our business. This broader vision calls for new approaches to design‚ management‚ partnership and new tools and metrics to support integration and adoption throughout Nike. Many of Nike’s http://www.managementexchange.com/story/nike%E2%80%99s-gameplan-growth-that%E2%80%99s-good-all
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and Lithuania in 20132. H&M’s sustainability program‚ “H&M Conscious‚” integrates corporate social responsibility with their corporate values and makes sustainability a core tenet of their quality concept. H&M is intent on confronting existing challenges in the fashion industry‚ including wage and labor conditions at supplier factories‚ climate change‚ and the availability of natural resources because their consumers are showing increased interests in sustainability. This simultaneously strengthens
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of attention from governments and both profit and non-for-profit organizations to environmental‚ social and corporate responsibility. It is vital for companies to take seriously thinking about manufacturing and service sustainability‚ and underscore the importance of sustainability in supply chain management. Companies could develop sustainable operations by analyzing each link in the value chain. Not only to create a better image of companies‚ but also reducing costs or creating new businesses. (Nidumolu
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