Assessment of Social Sustainability Management in Various Sectors

This volume presents a variety of case studies detailing how imperatives of social sustainability are handled in several industries. The first chapter written by the volume editor provides context for social sustainability and explains how the following chapters fit together. The following five chapters detail cases from the textile industry, technology firms, agriculture, and the healthcare industry.

Offers a variety of case studies dealing with social sustainability in different industries Presents policy recommendations based on case studies Chapters are available individually as well as collectively

Auteur

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 170 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Assessment of Social Sustainability Management in various industrial sectors.- Chapter 2: Environmental, social, and governance sustainability management and financial outcomes: Evidence from US tech companies.- Chapter 3: Social Sustainability Management Practice in the Textile Industry.- Chapter 4: Sufficiency economy philosophy in fostering agricultural enterprise well-being: A case study from Thailand.- Chapter 5: The Current Dilemma of the Social Healthcare System in Chile: An Analysis of the Current Situation and Discussion of the Pending Reforms, from a Social Sustainability Management Viewpoint..- Chapter 6: The Impact of Sustainable Technologies on Business Strategy and Competitiveness.- Chapter 7: Advances towards Agri-Food Sustainability in the European Union: Challenges and Perspectives.