Systems Integration For Global Sustainability

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Liu, J., Mooney, H., Hull, V., Davis, S.J., Gaskell, J., Hertel, T., Lubchenco, J., Seto, K.C.,
Gleick, P., Kremen, C. and Li, S., 2015. Systems integration for global
sustainability. Science, 347(6225), p.1258832.
This article researches about sustainability from the perspective of environment. It is
more concerned about air pollution, loss of biodiversity, changing nature of climate, spreading
diseases, and water pollution. This paper states about the major advantage of considering the
Earth as a coupled system combining with various flows of information, things, and energy
evolving with the time forming as an interconnected adaptive procedure with due complexity.
This paper mainly pays attention to the enhanced representation of integrated systems. To
analyze this concept the paper takes the example of familiar yet attractive places including
Brazil, China, Sahara Desert, and the Caribbean that possess different human-nature connections
across time and place at the organizational level.
Benn, S., Edwards, M. and Williams, T., 2014. Organizational change for corporate
sustainability. Routledge.
This paper discuss about corporate sustainability. The description is built around the
concept of organizational change as a means of corporate sustainability. According to this paper,
the concept of sustainability is gaining its position in the organizational behavior hence it has
become an interesting debatable topic in the field of politics also.
Interestingly this book has merged the global issues of ecological sustainability,
organizational change, the strategic management of human resource, corporate and social
responsibility, renewal of the leadership and community all together. Hence, it focuses on the

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redesigning of the corporation and discuses the role of change as an agent of sustainability for
the organization.
McMichael, A.J., Butler, C.D. and Folke, C., 2003. New visions for addressing
sustainability. Science, 302(5652), pp.1919-1920.
This paper provides new vision for attaining sustainability. It attaches the responsibility
of disciplines for addressing the challenges of sustainability. The entire paper poses the
responsibility of securing sustainability for the entire university among the entire humankind. It
discusses that initially sustainability was focused on the performance of human being including
the economic management, energy deficiency, and better urban designing.
This paper in particular describes the issues including resource imbalance, ecosystems of
Human society, market choices, risk in the field of diseases, and the increasing response to the
crisis. This is the way the article successfully brings forth a new vision for addressing
sustainability.
Moldan, B., Janoušková, S. and Hák, T., 2012. How to understand and measure
environmental sustainability: Indicators and targets. Ecological Indicators, 17, pp.4-13.
This particular paper discusses about the three pillars of sustainability. The three pillars
includes social, economic, and environmental pillar of sustainability. Along with this, the paper
mentions about two other types of sustainability namely financial and economic sustainability. It
demonstrated the casted question of economic pillar on the concept of sustainability. It includes
the incorporation addressing all the issues of economy to address sustainability entirely.