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Title Embedding biodiversity and ecosystem services in corporate sustainability: A strategy to enable Sustainable Development Goals
ID_Doc 78015
Authors Macellari, M; Gusmerotti, NM; Frey, M; Testa, F
Title Embedding biodiversity and ecosystem services in corporate sustainability: A strategy to enable Sustainable Development Goals
Year 2018
Published Business Strategy And Development, 1, 4
DOI 10.1002/bsd2.34
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals are a powerful lever to mainstream sustainability priorities in business' strategies and operations. At the same time, a new corporate sustainability based on a strategic understanding and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services is key to enact the new agenda for development. With the aim to better understand how businesses can operationalize the Agenda 2030, authors adopt a transdisciplinary approach and carry out an analysis of selected Italian business practices focused on biodiversity and ecosystem services management. Through a content analysis method and with the contribution of practitioners and experts, the main impacts of the practices have then been reconciled with the new framework for development. Finally, from primary data collected and further supported by semistructured interviews with company representatives (sustainability and environmental departments), authors propose a conceptual model that connects strategic biodiversity and ecosystem services management, its drivers and barriers, with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Author Keywords Sustainable Development Goals; biodiversity; ecosystem services; business; management; strategy
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:001299665900002
WoS Category Business; Environmental Studies
Research Area Business & Economics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
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