Description
Book SynopsisThis open access book represents a journey documenting the development of tools and methodologies over 3 decades and asks where the future lies. It further develops seminal work carried out under the auspices of the Capacity building in Sustainability and Environmental Management (CapSEM) project co-funded by the EU Erasmus programme from 2016-2019 as well as research projects such as IGLO-MP2020, SUSPRO, and SISVI. It gathers existing paradigms of environmental management within the relevant frameworks which have driven the way in which this discipline has developed. It seeks to both challenge and support the way in which business sectors have approached this previously, with a more holistic and overarching model being provided, moving through four very distinct levels. It therefore provides not only a different approach, but a different way of thinking. Systems thinking is characterized by four levels: Process, Product Value Chain, Organisational and Systemic which combines Material Flow Analysis (MFA), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Industrial Ecology (IE) principles. In its practical application, Corporate Social Responsibility, for example, thus becomes an integral part of a much wider business strategy and impacts on all business activity, not added value for its own sake, but a valuable component in a wider toolbox as a fundamental part of any business strategy and plan, changing, flexing and developing over the years.
The book is divided into 4 parts: moving from context and background, to the theoretical model or toolbox, onto its practical application in case studies and culminates in looking at the future and potential developments. It represents the multi-disciplined collaboration at NTNU and beyond, exemplifying its use in a wealth of business sectors and a range of stakeholders from construction to textiles to wind power as outlined in the European Circular Action Plan.
Table of ContentsPart I Sustainability: challenges and opportunities
Chapter 1: Business Challenges in the Transition to Sustainability
Annik Magerholm Fet and Martina Keitsch
Chapter 2: The CapSEM Model
Annik Magerholm Fet and Haley Knudson
Chapter 3: Sustainable Development Goals and CapSEM
Annik Magerholm Fet, Haley Knudson and Martina Keitsch
Part II The Toolbox: Methodologies and Theories
Chapter 4: Input-output Analysis and Cleaner Production
Annik Magerholm Fet, Cecilia Haskins and Magnus Sparrevik
Chapter 5: Looking Beyond the Factory Gates
Annik Magerholm Fet, Luitzen de Boer and Martina Keitsch
Chapter 6: Communicating Product Life Cycle Performance through Labels and Declarations
Christofer Skaar
Chapter 7 : Environmental Management Systems
Annik Magerholm Fet and Ottar Michelsen
Chapter 8: Analytical frameworks, indicators and performance evaluation
Annik Magerholm Fet
Chapter 9: Reporting Schemes
Annik Magerholm Fet and Magnus Sparrevik
Chapter 10: Business Models for Sustainability
Haley Knudson
Chapter 11: Closing the loop: Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy and Material Flow Analysis
Annik Magerholm Fet and Paritosh Deshpande
Chapter 12: Systems Engineering. Introduction, Methods and Tools
Annik Magerholm Fet and Cecilia Haskins
Part III From Theory to Practice: Case Studies
Chapter 13: Introduction to the Case Studies
Annik Magerholm Fet
Chapter 14: From Waste to Value – a story about Life Cycle Management in the Furniture Industry (Case study 1)
Ottar Michelsen, Christofer Skaar, Annik Magerholm Fet
Chapter 15: The Role of Public Sector Buyers: Influencing Systemic Change in the Construction Sector (Case Study 2)
Shannon Truloff, Luitzen de Boer, Xinlu Qiu and Annik Magerholm Fet
Chapter 16: CapSEM Applied to the Construction Sector (Case Study 3)
Magnus Sparrevik, Luitzen de Boer, Ottar Michelsen and Christofer Skaar
Chapter 17: Material Flow Analysis: Mapping Plastics within the Fishing Sector in Norway (Case Study 4)
Paritosh C Deshpande and Arron W. Tippett
Chapter 18: Environmental Management at Fiskerstrand Verft AS: a 30 year Journey (Case Study 5)
Rolf Fiskerstrand and Annik Magerholm Fet
Chapter 19: A Transportation Planning Decision Support System (Case Study 6)
Dina Margrethe Aspen
Chapter 20: First Steps towards Sustainable Waste Management (Case Study 7)
Øystein Peder Solevåg
Part IV The Road Ahead
Chapter 21: Transition to Sustainability
Annik Magerholm Fet and Martina Keitsch
Chapter 22: Helping business contribute to a sustainability transition: Archetypes of business models for sustainability
Haley Knudson and Martina Keitsch
Chapter 23: Building Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Transformation
Dina Aspen and Christina Carrozzo Hellevik
Chapter 24: The Way Forward?
Annik Magerholm Fet and Martina Keitsch
