Sustainable Development Through Holistic Approach

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art literature on sustainable development in the global market. Government, enterprises and individual initiatives toward sustainable development are explored. Cases from all over the world are included to highlight the successes, initiatives and most important of all, the increasing awareness of the need to be eco-friendly at all levels. The work reported here focuses in detail on the initiatives particularly related to sustainable production, green innovations and practices, and eco-supply chain and eco-logistics. It is clear that past research has omitted some important issues when looking at the global level, and hence a holistic perspective is required to gear the effort of sustainable development and its integration to the existing organizational structure. Directions for future research are suggested to strike a balance. Author(s): S.C.L. Koh (University of Sheffield); S. Arunachalam (University of East London)