Sustainability is multidimensional and covers many over lapping disciplines. We have many journal subscriptions: Advanced Sustainable Systems, Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, Sustainable cities and society, Sustainable Energy Research, Sustainable environment, Sustainable Manufacturing and Service Economics
We recommend you use SUMMON or Google Scholar to search across our collections. Here is more guidance on our resources.
Greenfile
You could use: GreenFILE which tracks literature on all aspects of human impact on the environment including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
“meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
How the United Nations Brundtland Commission defined sustainability in 1987.
For corporations there has been a great deal of attention paid to the related areas: CSR (corporate social responsibility) and ESG (relating to the environment and social governance). See our research guide to our subscribed ESG resources.
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Profits, planet, and people Sustainability is a broad term. For companies it means doing business without negatively impacting the environment, the community or broader society. The concept of sustainability is often divided into three pillars: Economic, Environmental, and Social. Or more informally: |
Corporate Social Responsibility A term that began to be used in the 1970s. It refers to the strategies companies were employing to carry out business in an ethical and more sustainable and socially responsible way. It represents a general framework and is a less specific term than ESG. |
ESG Criteria ESG metrics provide a structured framework of non-financial performance indicators that measure how well a company is doing in mitigating risks and meeting specific standards of sustainability. The three 3 pillars represent: Environmental, Social, Governance (Corporate Governance) |
