Sustainability
Book chapter, 2014
This chapter derives our current understandings of the concept of Sustainability. Its history dates back to the Sixties and is today largely affected by concerns about climate change that have centered around the Un Climate Change Conferences and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The aim of this chapter is to introduce you to the concept of Sustainability and give it sufficient background for you to subsequently explore the promises of sustainable business development. Sustainability has only recently been clearly linked to business development and innovation.
UN Climate Change conferences
innovation
business strategy
sustainability
IPCC
Author
Sverker Alänge
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Quality Sciences
Chapter 2 in Alänge, Sverker & Lundqvist, Mats eds. (2014) Sustainable Business Development: Frameworks for Idea Evaluation and Cases of Realized Ideas, Chalmers University Press, Gothenburg
4-20
978-91-87463-03-7 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Environmental Management
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Innovation and entrepreneurship
DOI
10.13140/2.1.4974.8807
ISBN
978-91-87463-03-7