Sustainability and Sustainable Development: From Vision to Reality [Hardcover]

Overviews sustainability and sustainable development. Covers business initiatives that aim toward corporate strategies for social responsibility, use of technology in human resource management toward sustainable efforts, adapting industrial policy to sustainable development goals, developing sustainable green banking initiatives, etc.

Corporate sustainability governance has emerged as a management system that merges and balances the interests of all three pillars of sustainable developmenteconomic, environmental, and socialwithin the operational boundaries of the organization. This new book offers methodical insights into sustainability and sustainable development, offering chapters on a diverse range of topics, providing valuable insight and inspiration for developing strategies to meet sustainable development goals. The volume looks at business initiatives that aim toward corporate social responsibility, technology in human resource management, adapting industrial policy to sustainable development goals, developing sustainable green banking initiatives, sustainable development in higher education, impact of information and communication technology on the elimination of poverty, sustainable and circular healthcare waste management techniques, integrating sustainable methods for climate-smart agriculture, and much more.

1. Role of Information and Communication Technology in Poverty Elimination with Respect to the SDG-2030 Agenda 2. Sustainable Practices and Challenges: An Ex-Post Analysis of Selected Private Companies in India 3. Building a Better World: The Quest for Global Sustainable Development 4. The Role of Industrial Policy in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: A Case of Uttarakhand 5. Employing Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Sustainable Development Research 6. Green Banking Initiatives: An Empirical Evaluation of Factors with Reference to the Rayalaseema Region 7. Climate Smart Agriculture for Sl1