CUC100 Assessment: Annotated Bibliography on Sustainability Principles

This annotated bibliography focuses on sustainable business practices, drawing from various sources to explore the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. It highlights the importance of understanding sustainability principles and applying them in real-world business scenarios. The bibliography examines the use of the sustainability triad framework in education and its applicability to businesses striving for a sustained competitive advantage. Furthermore, it delves into the impact of the mining industry on the environment and the need for sustainable practices in this sector, emphasizing the importance of balancing economic growth with social and environmental responsibility. The annotations provide insights into each source's contribution to understanding and promoting sustainable business models.

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Robertson, M. (2014). Sustainability principles and practice. Routledge.
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Chapter 1 provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary
field of sustainability. The authors have focused on furnishing solution alongside equipping
students with conceptual understanding besides technical skills for the workplace. The chapter
introduces the theory introduces the suitable theory and presenting the issue and supply tools to
work towards a solution. The author has examined the aspect of sustainability piece by piece and
broad coverage. The author has presented a detailed description of what sustainability
encompasses in chapter 1.
The chapter 1 of this book presents a precise definition of what sustainability entails. By
using this chapter, I will be able to advance my topic, sustainable business in a manner that is
easy to not only understand but also practice. This will be helpful in developing or establishing a
convincing background upon which the business will be able to see the need to move towards
sustainability. This will be beneficial in ensuring that company not only cares for the present
generations but its continuity into the future generation. The practices that ensure sustainability
are provided in this chapter. These practices will be transferred into the real business practices
and hence help demonstrate the need for the business to remain sustainable. Therefore, this
chapter presents useful in advancing my topic of interest, toward sustainable business because it
will help me apply the best practices highlighted in the book in completing my project. This will
help present the best paper that can persuade not only business but also the members of the
community to embrace sustainable practices in their use of environment and consumption of
goods and services.

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Irene M. Herremans & Robin E. Reid (2010) Developing Awareness of the Sustainability
Concept, The Journal of Environmental Education, 34:1, 16-20,
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In this article, the authors have discussed the use of sustainability triad a framework that
helps teachers teach sustainability in the classroom. The case study of the national park has been
used to showcase how triad can utilize in determining if its three dimensions (social,
environmental and economic) stay congruent or conflicting each other. Such a tool is valuable in
assisting readers to understand sustainability in the concrete instead of abstract form.
The ideas highlighted in this national park mini-case in helping understand how business
can become sustainability. Based my area of interest or the topic which is sustainability in
industry, this paper presents valuable information that will help me recommend to many firms on
what is required of them to become more sustainable and create sustained competitive advantage.
Therefore, the concepts drawn from this article can be easily transferred to a business, project or
institute that has been in the national or local news as public controversy point. It has used an
example that is familiar to students, and this makes it increasingly possible to relate to and
understand the nature of the multidimensional decisions as members of the business community
and societal members. Also, the authors have analyzed the situation from the viewpoint of
sustainability triad which is increasingly helpful in unearthing the underlying triggers of un-
sustainability and search for solutions. Moreover, this examination highlights the need for a
change in values in case true sustainability is to be accomplished. This further helps in
explaining the underlying reasons for consistency alongside conflict between dimensions as well

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as what underlying values propel outcome. The expansion of the sustainability triad use in this
way offers education for environment and shall permit the learner to comprehend their personal
environment ethnic completely.
Martin Brueckner, Angela Durey, Robyn Mayes & Christof Pforr (2014) The mining boom
and Western Australia’s changing landscape: Towards sustainability or business as
usual?, Rural Society.
The practices and public image of mining have been altering over time. Previously,
mining operations often stood accused of being environmentally and socially disruptive, while
mining presently invests deeply in the “socially responsible” alongside ‘sustainable’ practices of
business. These alterations including are experienced globally and in places such as Western
Australia, where mining industry has matured into an economic pillar of the state, and in fact a
country in the context of the latest resources boom. This paper investigates mining role in
Western Australia, presenting a multidisciplinary viewpoint on the contribution of the mining
industry to sustainable development in the state. The article has offered perspectives here are
derived from community-oriented research alongside the corresponding academic literature and
data are drawn from administration sources and the NGOs sector. Findings indicate that albeit
the vital attitudinal alongside operational enhancements in the industry, economic, social as well
as environmental challenge areas stay. As the mining in Western Australia is anticipated to
expand in the coming years, such challenge areas call for the attention of both government and
business alike to guarantee the long-run sustainability of development alongside place and
people.
The article provides a detailed explanation of the effects of the mining boom on the
environments and the need to move towards a sustainable business. Therefore, this article is

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closely linked to my topic of interest, sustainable business. The concepts and the ideas drawn
from this article will form the basis upon which I will be able to explain to various companies
and stakeholders about the need to be sustainable and its relationship with a sustained
competitive edge. Therefore, it will help me solve the adverse effects that mining has on the
environment besides suggesting compelling ways through the business can be sustainable even
as they engage in mining activities. This will benefit not only the landscape but also the industry
as the 21st-century customers are more concern about the sustainability.