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Corporate Water Strategies
In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issue for both corporations and the public sector in response to increased water demand, climatic risks and potentially negative impacts on brand value.
This innovative book provides up to date information on global water issues and describes how companies can not only address these challenges but also implement high value global water strategies.
It shows:
Why water is a critical business issue for companies which now face water risk to their operations and brands;
How new concepts such as embedded water and virtual water are forcing companies to think differently about how they use water to manufacture products;
That companies need to develop a corporate water strategy to manage it as a key business issue and capture the real value of water;
How companies can develop partnerships with non-governmental organizations to implement water strategies
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Does the concept of “creating shared value” hold water?
The value limitations to value of creating shared value (CSV) as a response strategy to water risks are discussed. The findings show that the CSV sentiment is sensible in its entirety because if society fails, so is business. The financial crisis showed the obligations of the businesses and the government to confirm that business behaves in ways which advance the public and private good.
Journal Article
Creating an Earth Archive
Changes to the Earth's biosphere have reached a critical point. It's abundantly clear that we can no longer halt those changes that have resulted from humaninduced modifications to the Earth's systems (1, 2). The climate crisis will fundamentally disrupt weather patterns, raise sea levels, alter biogeographic distributions, and much more. Research across disciplines from archaeology to zoology shows that terrestrial environments comprise irreplaceable archives of past human and evolutionary activity. Our rapidly changing Earth presents a grand challenge for humanity: We must preserve or record our cultural and ecological heritage, along with information about habitats critical for biodiversity, before they are lost completely. But this challenge brings up a profoundly important question: How best do we accomplish this recording, as quickly and with as much detail as possible? Some of this documentation is already underway. For example, there are archives of multi-spectral remote sensing products that are freely open to all, most notably the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) archives (earthexplorer.usgs.gov) that include Landsat multi-spectral images dating back to the 1970s for much of the Earth's surface, as well as aerial photographs that date to earlier. What's missing from these archives is three-dimensional data that record the structure of the Earth's forest cover as well as the cultural and ecological features found beneath forest canopies. There have been calls to use remote sensing technologies, such as light detection and ranging (Lidar), to fill in this gap and record these broad areas of the
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Corporate water strategies
1. The global challenge of water and why it matters to business -- 2. Global issue with local solutions -- 3. The disconnect between pricing and value -- 4. Water accounting : water footprint and virtual water -- 5. Partnerships and stakeholders -- 6. Water technology -- 7. Reporting, disclosure and leadership -- 8. A water strategy map -- 9. Food and beverage industries -- 10. The semiconductor industry -- 11. Power generation -- 12. Extractive industries -- 13. Manufacturing -- 14. Seven new rules of 21st-century thinking.
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The future of value
\"Enhance business performance by using sustainability for competitive advantageThe Future of Value reveals what it takes for companies to grow and outperform the competition in today's growth-constrained, sustainability conscious world. The author shows leaders how to use sustainability as a powerful, pragmatic lens to enhance business performance. He also explores how to craft and oversee a portfolio of effective tools, develop competitive strategies, and adjust value chain activities, talent management practices, and corporate policies to help organizations execute powerful sustainability strategies. He provides a systematic, yet instantly familiar, model all companies can use to connect sustainability with their growth and competitive strategies. In this way, the author shows leaders how to shape, color, and own The Future of Value. Outlines the keys to implementing sustainability in organizations to achieve business success today and tomorrow Reveals how to engage stakeholders in day to day sustainability management as a means to shape and fuel efforts to continuously renew their sustainability strategies The author is a 15-year veteran of sustainability and strategy management consulting, having worked with clients in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe. He has an MBA in Strategic Management from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and writes a regular column for Sustainable Life Media and GreenBiz, two of the world's most heavily trafficked sustainability news and thought leadership portals The author draws useful and accessible conclusions from a rich, diverse set of corporate interviewees. A core part of his research was the selection and interrogation of more than 25 Global Fortune 500 companies' sustainability, strategy, and finance leads\"--
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The future of value
Enhance business performance by using sustainability for competitive advantage The Future of Value reveals what it takes for companies to grow and outperform the competition in today's growth-constrained, sustainability conscious world. The author shows leaders how to use sustainability as a powerful, pragmatic lens to enhance business performance. He also explores how to craft and oversee a portfolio of effective tools, develop competitive strategies, and adjust value chain activities, talent management practices, and corporate policies to help organizations execute powerful sustainability strategies. He provides a systematic, yet instantly familiar, model all companies can use to connect sustainability with their growth and competitive strategies. In this way, the author shows leaders how to shape, color, and own The Future of Value. Outlines the keys to implementing sustainability in organizations to achieve business success today and tomorrow Reveals how to engage stakeholders in day to day sustainability management as a means to shape and fuel efforts to continuously renew their sustainability strategies The author is a 15-year veteran of sustainability and strategy management consulting, having worked with clients in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe. He has an MBA in Strategic Management from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and writes a regular column for Sustainable Life Media and GreenBiz, two of the world's most heavily trafficked sustainability news and thought leadership portals The author draws useful and accessible conclusions from a rich, diverse set of corporate interviewees. A core part of his research was the selection and interrogation of more than 25 Global Fortune 500 companies' sustainability, strategy, and finance leads.
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Reporting, Disclosure and Leadership
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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The Disconnect Between Pricing and Value
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Book Chapter