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Curated Booklists - Business & Economics

UN Sustainable Development Goals / April 2023

In this opinion piece published by The Financial Times, Giselle Weybrecht -- author of The Sustainable MBA -- argues that business schools aren't doing enough to influence sustainability efforts, including the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Weybrecht, 2022). For April 2023, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine the 17 SDGs.

Besides these books, Alexander Street Press has short videos (approximately 3 minutes) on each of the goals, starting with this video:

Find more materials about this topic by searching "sustainable development goals" in Library Search

AI for the Sustainable Development Goals

This book shows how we can analyze not only the direct effects of AI on sustainability, but also the indirect - or second-order - effects.

Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Decent Work and Economic Growth

Focuses on SDG8 -- inclusive and sustainable economic growth and productive employment for all. This book's case studies show how the SDG8 translates into culture and the practice of doing business.

Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Age

This book is a roadmap to help organizations adopt corporate responsibility and sustainability practices and be fit for purpose in a digital era. Each chapter is linked to relevant UN SDGs.

Five Superpowers for Co-Creators

This book provides change makers, organizations and facilitators with practical tools to initiate and conduct multi-stakeholder co-creation processes. Such processes are of critical importance in times of rapid change, where mega trends and grand challenges influence the market dynamics of business in new ways. 

Responsible leadership : Essential to the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals

The most comprehensive and informed work on responsible leadership linked to the UN SDGs produced to date; it discusses progress in areas like climate change and biodiversity, global health, cybercrime, human trafficking, corporate social responsibility, gender, education and social cohesion.

SDG12 - Sustainable Consumption and Production

Part of a series of books examining each SDG in detail, this volume takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.