Overview
- Includes a wealth of case studies on the sustainable management of industries, products, technologies, communities, education and the environment
- Discusses recent research findings and the way forward for sustainable management
- Provides essential insights on how to achieve the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals
Part of the book series: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
With the introduction of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations General Assembly in 25 September 2015, UN agencies, member states and stakeholders have begun to focus on the adoption and implementation of these strategies in realization of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. To work toward sustainability, strategic measures to encourage stakeholders to contribute to the goals of the 2030 agenda are needed.
In recognition of these efforts, this book is produced to compile research concepts and approaches for the area of sustainability management of industry, technology development, community, education and the environment. The objective of this book is to deliberate concepts and approaches of sustainability management taking place in Malaysia whereby case studies will be revealed to provide way forward of sustainability management toward achieving sustainable development.
The insights provided can be applied toadvanced and developing countries by sustainable development practitioners, encompassing government agencies, academia, industries, NGOs and community, who would like to adopt the concept of approach of sustainability into their area of management.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
KHAI ERN LEE, Ph.D. is currently the Deputy Director (Infrastructure and Instrumentation) at the Centre for Research and Instrumentation Management (CRIM) and an Associate Professor cum Senior Fellow at the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He is a Fellow at the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University; an alumni of Leadership for Sustainability, United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo; as well as a Full Member of the Young Scientist Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM). He is also a Panel Accredited Mediator of the Malaysian Mediation Centre, Bar Council of Malaysia as well as a Professional Technologist of the Malaysia Board of Technologist (MBOT).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Concepts and Approaches for Sustainability Management
Editors: Khai Ern Lee
Series Title: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34568-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34567-9Published: 24 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34570-9Published: 24 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34568-6Published: 23 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2522-8714
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8722
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 118
Topics: Sustainable Development, Sustainability Management, Environmental and Sustainability Education