unleashing new possibilities and envisaging new business solutions to environmental and social problems | future sustainable entrepreneur |
projects have their origin in citizens' own interests, inner drive, and idealistic passion to change the world | entrepreneurial sustainable innovation |
even it engages, operates within a market-driven framework guided by the interest of the company | sustainable innovation facilitated by companies |
traditional companies can be considered sustainability change agents | protect their core business |
traditional companies' sustainable innovations really disruptive | smaller players may be more easily able to disrupt traditional markets |
systems change thinking | linear to circular economy |
societal embedding of sustainable products & services combined factors (4) | systems change thinking
transparent co-creation
understanding innovation as a network of learning
use of different types of practices |
in this area, the policy change could enable sustainability innovation and entrepreneurship through more learner-centered programmes, critical analysis and systems thinking approaches | education |
in this area, the policy change should encourage and establish mechanisms for the creation and maintenance of sustainability learning | networks |
in this area, the policy change to facilitate access to finance and better tax and investment incentives to run | funding |
in this area, the different measurement and a new definition of 'value' appear as two important factors to consolidate sustainability innovation | impact |
vital organizational enabler | leadership and top management |
key facilitators of sustainable innovations in companies (5) | top management support
visionary leadership
strong organizational culture
internal collaboration
strong entrepreneurial innovations |
manufacturers | primary stakeholders |
business partners | primary stakeholders |
public authorities, civil society groups | secondary stakeholders |
universities, foundations | secondary stakeholders |
co-creation processes, businesses studied have used a range of methodologies and instruments to incude citizens-uders-consumers and other stakeholders | integration of citizen insights |
conducting focus group discussions in an online environment | lifestyle twist 2.0 |
ways of distribution of citizen integration methods across innovation stages in company driven processes | ideation
product development
commercialization
post-launch |
who developed the sustainable entrepreneurship process (SEP) | Frank-Martin Belz
Julia Binder |
entrepreneur seeks the alignment of his-her idea or venture with social or ecological goals | double bottomline solution |
relies on a number of possible seed capital sources, including families, friends, bank loans, crowd funding, public financing | sustainable development process |
a framework to support analysis and planning of sustainable development | strategic environmental analysis |
structured, participatory process to analyse environmental problems and opportunities fro development | strategic environmental analysis |
integrative tools/focus on linkages of environmental & socio-economic issues of sustainability | strategic environmental analysis |
deals with interactions between ecosystems and human society | strategic environmental analysis |
approach in strategic environmental analysis | anthropocentric |
raising level of knowledge on the environmental context and its interrelations with the other dimensions of sustainable development | long-term objective |
to analysse environmental contextof human development, the opportunities and constraints | short-term objective |
to gain insight into relations between environmental key issues and other dimensions of sustainable development | short-term objective |
to define a vision and strategic gals with relevant actors | short-term objective |
stimulate and provide guidance to an interactive process with actors involved | short-term objective |
5 phases of the SEAN process | preparation
scoping
detailed studies
synthesis and planning
follow-up and monitoring |
provides a logical structure which is necessary to ensure that relevant environmental issues are not overlooked and cross-sectoral insights are generated | analytical framework |
important characteristic of SEAN | flexibility |
guide participatory process of analysis and planning | conceptual and methodological basis |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
production, carrier, regulation and cultural (information) | multiple users and multi-functionality of environmental systems |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
contains formal and informal information sources, quantitative and qualitative data | objective and subjective value judgements |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
different norms and thresholds for acceptable environmental change must be recognised to form the basis for defining bottomlines and desirable states | limits of acceptable environmental change |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
negative discrepancy between norms and standards for human society and current situation | environmental problems as a normative perception |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
proximate and root causes are found in society | social causality of problems and opportunities |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
areas of overlap and trade-off between environmental and socio-economic development goals | interrelationships between sustainable development components |
(basis of SEAN process and analytical framework)
focusing on existing opportunities for change and promising initiatives at various levels | opportunities and initiatives as strategic building blocks |
collaborating with innovators to adopt more sustainable development concepts | strategic partnerships |
to overcome constraints and benfit from opportunities | micro-meso-macro linkages |
required to gain insight into the interaction and dynamics between social, economic, and institutional factors | systems approach |
identify the key actors influencing the system dynamics | actor's approach |
shows the linkages of actors within different sectors at different levels | schematic representation |
brings together elements from different conceptual and methodological planning and environmental assessment backgrounds | SEAN |
integrated and open-ended planning tool | strategic environmental analysis |
goal on ecological | stability or diversity |
goal on socio-institutional | autonomy |
goal on economic | production efficiency |
property | input |
machinery | input |
labor | input |
raw materials | input |
consummables | input |
transformation | production process |
knowledge gathering and presentation | production process |
saleable goods and services | outputs |
valuable information | outputs |
relates to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition | environmental |
aspect manages relationship with employees, suppliers, customer and communities where it operates | social |
dealts with leadership audits internal controls compliance and stakeholder agents | governance |
reduce waste | creation of value |
use source more efficiently | creation of value |
promote sustainable development | creation of value |
increase your awareness on sustainability | sustainability maturity level |
empower you to continue your journey | sustainability maturity level |
distribution and supplier | vertical integration |
the 'why' your purpose and direction | strategy |
how you implement initiatives/programs and your focus | area of focus |
how well you implement, measure, monitor and evaluate your initiatives | effectiveness |
internal and external communication methods and practices | communication |
process by which resource managers estimate a product's future production potential | resource assessment |
for the purposes of guidelines, this is characterized as the activities necessary to evaluate a managed species' long-term production ptential by understanding population dynamics | resource assessment |
offers data for identifying knowledge gaps that need to be filled as well as population characteristics | resource assessment |
provide factories with raw materials, provide livelihoods for people, and generate revenue for economies | natural resources |
these resources must be used, maintained, and conserved in a sustainable manner | natural resources |
arise as a result of both natural and anthopogenic factors | land-cover changes |
impact biodiversity and ecosystem services in a variety of ways | changes in land use |
used to model, forecast and analyze landscape dynamics | GIS, remote sensing |
most serious challenges to Africa's protected areas management | Human-wildlife conflicts, bushmeat trade |
InVest | Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services |
cutting-edge tools for assessing, valuing and mapping priority ecosystem services | InVest |
nrm | natural resource management |
addresses evaluation from a systems perspective | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
links objective to consequence | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
considers fundamental assumptions and hypotheses | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
grounded in the natural resource | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
establishes practical and valid eval criteria | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
involves methodological pluralism | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
integrates different disciplinary perspectives | systems approach to evaluation of nrm |
used to discuss and draw attention to important problems | indicators |
particular policy goal characterized by an observable or quantifiable performance measure | target |
to define and structure environmental indicators for policy use; useful for explaining connections between the use of explaining the connections between the use of natural resources | DPSIR system |
DPSIR | drivers, pressures, state, impacts, responses |
offers a basis for describing environmental effects; measures all physical interactions with the environment, positive or negative | life cycle assessment |