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assessment? Robert B. Gibson, University of Waterloo The scientific evidence tells us all we …

Over the past several years, many organizations have recognized the importance of
sustainability and have developed their own sets of metrics, scorecards, ratings, and tools …

This book presents the results of the IMD Forum for Corporate Sustainability Management's
research on 'Building a Business Case for Corporate Sustainability'. The aim was to reveal …

Indicators are critical to both scientific inquiry and policy development in complex systems.
They are concise information systems that provide quantitative and qualitative information …

Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-
specific information on the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic …

One of the key developments in the policy space over the past decade has been the
advancement of concepts related to environmental sustainability and more recently inclusive …

In this paper, we analyze the qualitative and quantitative differences and similarities
between two prominent sustainability datasets, namely, the sustainability ratings developed …

Sustainability assessment can be simply defined as any process that directs decision
making towards sustainability (Bond and Morrison-Saunders, 2011, derived from Hacking …

Ten years ago, the Rio Earth Summit-the biggest intergovernmental conference the world
had seen-was convened in Brazil by the United Nations Commission for Sustainable …

The triple bottom line (TBL) concept coined by John Elkington and now common currency
recognizes that corporations not only add economic value (hopefully), but also impact on …