The Path to Sustainable Business: Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools
2017
In the late 1980s, the concept of sustainable development gained prominence as a perspective for understanding the changing dynamic of business and the environment. It is a term that has come to mean different things to different people.
Excerpt
UVA-ENT-0033
The Path to Sustainable Business:
Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools
According to a 1989 National Academy of Engineering report by Robert Ayres, 94% of the material used in industrial production is thrown away before the product is made.
Sustainability is an injunction not to satisfy ourselves by impoverishing our successors.
—Robert Solow
. . .
Keywords:
- Correction
- Source
- Cite
- Save
- Machine Reading By IdeaReader
0
References
0
Citations
NaN
KQI