Sustainable Operations Management

1Sustainability—An Inclusive Paradigm

DOI: 10.1201/9780429195600-2

1.1 Understanding Sustainability and Its Core Issues

The task of introducing sustainability seems to be difficult enough, which perhaps becomes more difficult if I accept the challenge of making people perceive its implication, the pitfalls of non-sustainability, and the meaning of living with a sustainable lifestyle. Interestingly, this difficulty persists in the organizational level, in the policy-making level, and also in the social community or NGO level. Perhaps, response to some fundamental queries may facilitate the process of understanding this phenomenon.

In what way do our habits, activities, and lifestyle affect nature? How do human habitats, habitats of other living ...