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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:
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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.
Sustainable development goals : Harnessing business to achieve the SDGs through finance, technology and law reform
Explains what the SDGs are, how they came about and how they can be accelerated. Real-world case studies and authoritative insights address how to direct investment of existing financial resources and re-align the global financial system to reflect the SDGs.
The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education
Explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the SDGs. By focusing on the role of education about, for and through the SDGs, the authors seek to advance critical engagement with higher education that is both progressive and meaningful.
Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Each of the 17 chapters tells the decades- or centuries-old backstory of one SDG and reveals the global human connections, governance tools and frameworks, and the actors involved in past efforts to address sustainable development challenges.
The Sustainability Grand Challenge
How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? This is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss.
The Sustainable Development Goals : Industry Sector Approaches
Provides a critical evaluation of how a range of multinational companies from across different commercial sectors are currently addressing the SDGs and the challenges they are facing in contributing to them.
A Matter of Trust: Building Integrity into Data, Statistics and Records to Support the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
Uses a series of case studies to explore the substantial challenges for assembling reliable data and statistics to address pressing development challenges, particularly in Africa.