Creating a sense of urgency for sustainable development – Testing two system models
| Autor: | Raine Isaksson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sustainable development
Quality management Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 020209 energy Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Interdependence Risk analysis (engineering) Action (philosophy) Sustainability 050501 criminology 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Production (economics) Systems thinking Business 0505 law General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 227:1173-1184 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| Popis: | In spite of good coverage of sustainability and sustainable development both in scientific journals and other publications, humanity is on a steady unsustainable track consuming more than is produced. Understanding of change needs, does not seem to convert into sufficient change action. Sustainability issues are often complex, interdependent and hard to comprehend, indicating that sustainable development, in addition to change willingness, requires a holistic perspective. Seeing and understanding systems - systems thinking - is important. This implies that sense-making of systems and of sustainable development is important as a prerequisite for change. Possibilities of realising synergies between quality management and sustainable development are often discussed but do often not seem to be fully realised. This paper tests two system models from Quality Management in the context of sustainability in cement manufacturing and building material production. The indicative results suggest that the proposed system models are able to describe and identify improvement opportunities that could be used to create interest for change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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