About the Book
In thinking about business sustainability it is easy to forget the role of products and services, the delivery of which is ultimately the raison d'etre of business, and which are directly or indirectly the source of most environmental and sustainability impacts. A sustainable future will require much higher levels of product and service innovation and it is here that business will find the great opportunities to prosper through sustainability. The design and development or supply of sustainable products and services will become an area of strategic importance requiring the involvement, skills and cooperation of a wide spectrum of functions in business. This book has been written to address some specific gaps in the literature on business sustainability and social responsibility. The core concept presented is that " sustainable value" - the value created from sustainability performance - should be both the basis and the objective of the business case for sustainability.
Value management has long been an important business technique for looking beyond narrow functional or operational priorities and taking a more holistic view of the effect of product and supply chain or network activities on long-term business value. Sustainable Value (management) works in the same way and means thinking about and identifying the complex web of materials, components and suppliers that are involved in delivering sustainable products and services to customers, whilst taking account of their sustainability impacts (both positive and negative) and the concerns of key stakeholders involved in the process and throughout the lifecycle. So, where can sustainable value be found? The book focuses particularly on the tangible-products, services and systems - but also covers more fuzzy ground, arguing that reputation and brand management will ultimately add sustainable value to organisations. Full of practical guidance and case material, the book also serves as an accessible, widely applicable, business-oriented guide on applying sustainability considerations in product/service planning, design and development, supply chain management and business generally.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
I. William Zartman, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Introduction
1. The multilateral process for sustainable development: past, present and future
Angela Churie Kallhauge, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and Elisabeth Corell and Gunnar Sjöstedt, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
2. What did the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) accomplish? Suggestions for an outcome assessment
Gunnar Sjöstedt, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Part 1: Institutions and the development of the process
3. The road to Rio: early efforts on environment and development
Björn-Ola Linnér, Linköping University, Sweden, and Henrik Selin, Boston University, USA
4. The negotiating system of environment and development: a ten-year review
Pamela Chasek, Manhattan College, USA
5. A commission will lead them? The UN Commission on Sustainable Development and UNCED follow-up
Lynn M. Wagner, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Part 2: Actors and their interplay
6. A tale of three cities: developing countries in global environmental negotiations
Adil Najam, Tufts University, USA
7. Friends and foes: industrialised countries in multilateral environmental negotiations
Duncan R. Marsh, United Nations Foundation, USA
8. Three decades of NGO activism in international environmental negotiations: who influences NGOs?
Wagaki Mwangi, Syracuse University, USA
9. Street-wise provocations: the Global Justice Movement's take on sustainable development
Peter Doran, Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast; Research Officer, Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast
10. Partnerships for sustainable development: the role of Type II agreements
Claire Norris, Consultant, UK
Part 3: Process functions/cross-cutting themes
11. Knowledge processes in decision-making on sustainability: challenges for the future
Elisabeth Corell, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and Göran Sundqvist, Göteborg University, Sweden
12. Financing for sustainable development
Konrad von Moltke
13. Capacity development for the environment: North and South
Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire, USA, and Ambuj D. Sagar, Harvard University, USA
14. Making the link: synergies in international regime governance
Angela Churie Kallhauge and Lisa van Well, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Conclusion
15. An evolving sustainable development regime
Gunnar Sjöstedt, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and Lisa van Well and Angela Churie Kallhauge, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
About the Author :
Angela Churie Kallhauge works on climate change issues at the Swedish Energy Agency. Until recently she was a researcher at the Division of Urban Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm where she focused on decision-making processes and planning. She has over a decade's experience as an observer in international environmental negotiations, in particular the climate change and desertification processes and in working with issues relating primarily to capacity development and environmental policy in Africa. She has published several articles on aspects relating to capacity development, climate change policy in Africa and has participated in a number of capacity development initiatives focused specifically on improving the negotiation capacities in the South. She holds a Licentiate degree in Regional Planning and an MSc in Environmental Engineering.
Gunnar Sjöstedt is a research fellow at Swedish Institute of International Affairs and an associate professor at the University of Stockholm since 1977. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Program of International Negotiation (PIN) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and member of the Advisory Board for Negotiation Journal. A principal area of research has in recent years been negotiations about issues related to the international economy and environment, publications relating to which include: International Environmental Negotiations (co-editor with B. Spector and W. Zartman; Sage, 1993); Negotiating International Regimes: Lessons Learned from UNCED (co-editor with R. Löfstedt; Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, 1994); Environmental Aid Programmes to Eastern Europe (co-editor with V. Kremenyuk; Avebury Studies in Green Research, 1996); International Economic Negotiation: Models versus Reality (co-editor with J. Linneroth-Bayer and R.G. Löfstedt; Edgar Elgar, 2000); Transboundary Risk Management (editor; London: Earthscan Publications, 2001); and Professional Cultures in International Negotiation: Bridge or Rift? (editor; Lexington Books, 2003).
Elisabeth Corell works as a Wallenberg Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm. She holds a doctoral degree in international relations from the University of Linköping in Sweden. Her research interests are in the field of international decision-making for sustainable development and centre on the role of experts and scientific advisors as well as actors who represent practical and experience-based knowledge.
