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The Handbook of Project Management, 6th Edition
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The Handbook of Project Management, 6th Edition

by Martina Huemann, Rodney Turner
February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
17h 40m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 18 Sustainable project management

Gilbert Silvius, Ron Schipper and Martina Huemann

DOI: 10.4324/9781003274179-20

Introduction

The awareness that our current use of Earth’s natural resources is not sustainable has entered the boardrooms of many organisations. It is a fact that the consumption of resources exceeds the natural regenerative capacity of our planet, with mankind using up resources of around 1.7 piles of earth per year. In 2023, “Earth Overshoot Day”, which marks the day when all resources Earth can provide in an entire year are exhausted, is calculated to be on August 2nd. An urgent change is therefore required, and this change will affect organisations, companies and individuals, as actors within societies. While the ...

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