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The journey towards a sustainable world is our greatest challenge. This book includes reports analysis and discussion of cutting-edge approaches to incorporating sustainability importantly in the mix of organizational strategic elements. It includes examples of zero-footprint production facilities leveraging environmental and social opportunities by projects examining theories of excellence in sustainability through appreciative inquiry social entrepreneurship closed-loop supply chain management including reverse flows of products returned by end users using triple bottom-line measures of success implemented in various societal and political contexts implementing environmentally positive green technologies new visions for making sustainability sustainable and innovations in diffusing learning throughout an organization s web of stakeholders and admirers. Examples and cases are drawn from business government and not-for-profit sectors and intraand inter-sectoral partnerships in the US Canada Australia the Philippines and Spain. Notable focal cases include the airline industry with its emerging space-rich aerotropolises as potentially sustainable communities and higher education. These are at times supported by interviews that bring into focus positive learning experiences and high-point stories.
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