Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Project Management and Sustainability

1. LO 5.8 Understand how project practices can support the critical goal of sustainability.

Sustainability has become an increasingly important focus for project management in recent years, as the goals of sustainability and sustainable development are increasingly seen as a necessary concern for organizational operations. Sustainable development is defined in various ways. For example, it involves strategies that aim “at promoting harmony among human beings and between humanity and nature.”25 Put another way, sustainable development involves pursuing activities that “meet the needs of the actual generations without compromising the needs of future ones.”26 Sustainability, then, involves efforts to promote ...