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Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World
Joseph Fiksel
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Description for Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World
Hardback. Resilient by Design provides managers with a more complete approach to creating lasting success in a changing world. Rich with examples and case studies, it explains how to connect the external systems, stakeholders, communities, infrastructure, supply chains, and natural resources, to create innovative organisations that survive and prosper. Num Pages: 256 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: KJD; KJJ; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 513.
As managers grapple with the challenges of the effects of climate change in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organisation's resilience - its capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change. Sudden natural disruptions and increasingly vulnerable supply chains are increasingly the new normal. Business as usual is no match for this new world and many companies are unaware of how fragile they really are. If they are going to cope, management needs a new paradigm, one that considers as an interrelated whole the infrastructure, the built environment, the ecosystems, and ... Read more
As managers grapple with the challenges of the effects of climate change in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organisation's resilience - its capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change. Sudden natural disruptions and increasingly vulnerable supply chains are increasingly the new normal. Business as usual is no match for this new world and many companies are unaware of how fragile they really are. If they are going to cope, management needs a new paradigm, one that considers as an interrelated whole the infrastructure, the built environment, the ecosystems, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610915878
SKU
V9781610915878
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99-15
About Joseph Fiksel
Dr. Joseph Fiksel is co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Resilience at The Ohio State University. He is a recognised authority on sustainability and resilience, with over twenty-five years of research and consulting experience for government, industry, and international consortia. Previously, he was Director of Decision & Risk Management at Arthur D. Little and Vice President for Life ... Read more
Reviews for Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World
It is time to redefine the role of business in society as we work together to bring humans into a sustainable relationship with the natural systems of the planet. The concept of resilience as the key goal of living systems like people, nations, ecosystems and companies is an important addition to the growing literature around planetary sustainability. Dr. Fiksel has ... Read more