The Complexities of Sustainability

Sustainability is a topic of great interest to governments, businesses and individual members of society. There is a general consensus that sustainability is important and therefore, needs to be addressed. There is much less consensus, however, as to what this actually means and how it can be addressed. It appears to mean different things to different people and certainly everyone has their own priorities about what needs to be addressed. Consensus is difficult to find because of the complexity of what is involved in sustainability. This book addresses a number of these complexities by looking at different perspectives from experts from a wide range of different disciplines and from different parts of the world. The aim of the book ,therefore, is to stimulate discussion about what needs to be prioritised, as this forms an essential precursor to taking the necessary actions in order to achieve the essential sustainability for the planet.

Contents:

• The Many Facets of Sustainability (David Crowther and Shahla Seifi)

• Developments Old and New:

  • Corporate Responsible Innovation in Science and Technology Organisations: Including Indigenous Worldviews (Rafaela Costa Camoes Rabello, Katharina Ruckstuhl, Diane Ruwhiu, and Kirsty de Jong)
  • Features of CSR Ideas Realisation in Belarus During the Pandemic Period 2020 (Tatiana V Proharava, Natallia V Maltsevich, and Aliaksandr V Pyko)
  • Collaborating and Competing in Development Agendas: StateCivil Society Tensions in Achieving SDGs (Dianne Bolton, Terry Landells, and Mohshin Habib)
  • Lessons from the Evolution of the Accounting Tool: From the Genesis up to the Roman Period (Christos Tsatsis)
  • Following the Science: The UK Government's Response to 'Herd Immunity' During Early COVID-19 (Miriam Green)

• Implementation and Governance:

  • Cohered Emergent Theory for Designing and Implementing Multinational Mining Sustainability Practise in Ghana (Frank Nyame-Asiamah, Kwame Oduro Amoako, and Peter Kawalek)
  • Sustainability Reporting and the Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education: A Portuguese University Case (Sonia Monteiro, Veronica Ribeiro, and Katia Lemos)
  • The Growth and Regulatory Challenges of Cryptocurrency Transactions in Nigeria (Victor Ediagbonya and Tioluwani Comfort Tioluwani)
  • The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Corporate Performance in Building Material Industry (Wang Hong, Bao Xinyuan, and Wang Yidan)
  • Board Directors' Home Regions and Social Disclosure: Evidence from French Firms Listed in SBF 120 (Nadia Ben Farhat Toumi and Rim Khemiri)

Readership: Academics, students (postgraduate and doctoral) and to business managers with an interest in sustainability.
Key Features:

• Interdisciplinary in scope and coverage within the book series aims
• International in scope and contributors
• A Social Responsibility Research Network output

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