Sustainability Management
In its broadest sense Sustainability Management is concerned with organisational responses to the sustainability issues an organisation faces. It aims at making net contributions to economic development, social advancement and environmental protection, and thereby moves away from only managing the negative environmental and social implications of economic development. Sustainability Management is therefore concerned with utilising proven organisational concepts and business tools in a widened sustainability context, to achieve more sustainable outcomes.
Sustainability Management is still a comparatively new research field, with rapidly moving boundaries and definitions. Current applied research at Curtin is concerned with organisational determinants of company's success in resource efficiency improvements, and development and trial-application of sustainability decision support frameworks and metrics.