Total sustainability management. Describing the conditions, requirements and application of sustainability management

• Autorzy: Boroń Stefan , Kosiek Tomasz

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.1515/mspe-2019-0019

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Countless people and organisations have been wrestling with the practical application of sustainability and sustainable development. Yet there is no rigorous and unequivocal template that can be followed for management because the meaning of the key concepts of sustainability and development in particular haven’t been properly identified. Although the fundamental meaning of the word sustainability is continuance, the concept has its controversies especially when it drifts into the ‘abstract’ and even becomes confused with sustainable development. For our purposes it is the ability of development and of its associated processing activities to continue that is being managed. For management effectiveness, a system framework is necessary but more importantly what goes into that system has to be rigorously and unambiguously defined. In our case, the mechanisms describing the practicalities that govern the sustainability of development have been clearly identified in this paper and called by name. The concept of development needs clarification, while the accepted popular ‘three pillar’ depiction of sustainable development is also fundamentally flawed when compared with the form of words of the ’Brundtland‘ definition. This well-known ‘Venn representation’ implies a type of ‘balance’ or ‘synergy’ at the heart of sustainability management. In fact, because of the fundamentally unsustainable nature of current development processes, the ‘balance’ turns into a trade-off amongst the three sustainability players. For real sustainable development there can be no such trade-off. Once the misunderstandings are clarified the true basics of sustainability and sustainable development are fed into a standard ISO14001 iteration loop for management to commence.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

sustainability management; Brundtland; real sustainable development; ISO 14001

• Wydawca: STE GROUP
• Czasopismo: Management Systems in Production Engineering
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: nr 2 (27)
• Strony: 110--118
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 18 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Boroń Stefan

• Heriot-Watt University, Chemical Engineering, School of EPS, Edinburgh. EH14 4AS, Great Britain

autor

Kosiek Tomasz

• Silesian University of Technology Faculty of Organization and Management Department of Applied Social Science ul. Roosevelta 26, Zabrze, Poland

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2019).