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This 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 combinesMaterial 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.

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Author:   Annik Magerholm Fet
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9783031222474

ISBN 10:   3031222474
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   22 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 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

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Dr. Annik Magerholm Fet is the Vice Rector of NTNU in Ålesund. She has been a Professor of Environmental Management, Systems Engineering and Lifecycle Analysis at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at NTNU since 1999, and now holds a similar affiliation in the Department of International Business. From 2014–2016 she was the Director and Academic Head of NTNU's strategic research area on Sustainability.   Professor Fet leads several national and international research projects in global production, environmental management, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business models for sustainability. Through the Network for Green Growth, funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), and the Business Hub for Sustainability (BH4S) she supports the research group for Green innovation and Business models and looks at opportunities to stimulate cross-disciplinary research activities at NTNU in Ålesund. In addition to several RCN projects, she is the project leader of the Erasmus+ project CapSEM with academic partners in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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