Sustainability and Sustainable Development: From Vision to Reality

Corporate sustainability governance has emerged as a management system that merges and balances the interests of all three pillars of sustainable development--economic, environmental, and social--within the operational boundaries of the organization. This new book offers methodical insights into sustainability and sustainable development, offering chapters on a diverse range of topics, providing valuable insight and inspiration for developing strategies to meet sustainable development goals. The volume looks at business initiatives that aim toward corporate social responsibility, technology in human resource management, adapting industrial policy to sustainable development goals, developing sustainable green banking initiatives, sustainable development in higher education, impact of information and communication technology on the elimination of poverty, sustainable and circular healthcare waste management techniques, integrating sustainable methods for climate-smart agriculture, and much more.

Daman Jeet, PhD, MBA Finance Gold Medalist, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance and Accounting, at IBS Hyderabad, India, and a CS Executive. She has more than a decade of experience in teaching and practice. She has been associated with premier institutes in India, including the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar; Savithri Bhai Phule Pune University, Pune; Symbiosis International University, Pune; Balaji University, Pune; Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, etc. Her professional interests are in areas of research relating to ownership patterns, firm performances, corporate governance, panel data approaches, etc. Dr. Jeet has published patent and papers in Scopus-, ABDC-, and UGC-approved journals. She earned her PhD in Finance (gold medalist). She has authored books with reputed publishers. She has organized entrepreneurship development programs, attended various international and national conferences and workshops, and has been invited as a guest lecturer at various institutes of repute. Her teaching interests include financial management, derivatives management, investment management, financial markets, strategic management, etc.

Sachi Nandan Mohanty, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Computer Science & Engineering(SCOPE) at VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was recently recognized as one of the Top 2% World Scientists Ranking by Stanford University and Elsevier for the year 2023. He has authored/edited 42 books published by IEEE, Wiley, Springer, Wiley, CRC Press, Nova Science Publishers, and DeGruyter, and has published 241 papers in international journals. His research areas include data mining, big data analysis, cognitive science, fuzzy decision making, brain-computer interface, cognition, and computational intelligence. Professor Mohanty has received four best paper awards during his PhD program at an international conference in Beijing, China, and at the International Conference on Soft Computing Applications organized by IIT Rookee, India, in 2013. He was awarded a best thesis award by the Computer Society of India in 2015. He has guided nine PhD scholars and 23 postgraduate students. He Dr. Mohanty has done academic assignments around the world and has received several international travel grants from the Government of India Department of Science and Technology and SERB for presenting research papers and as keynote speaker. He has received many awards and fellowships during his career. He also a reviewer for several journals. He is the general chair of two international conferences and editor in chief of international journal EAI Endorsed Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning Applications. He received his postdoctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

Santi Swarup Basa, PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at MSCB University, Baripada, Odisha, India. His research interests include software engineering, web engineering, data mining, and cloud computing. He has guided 18 MTech scholars to date. Dr. Basa has many publications to his credit published in various international and national journals and conferences. He is the co-author of two books and two patents. He has also successfully organized many international and national conferences. He has 18 years of teaching experience and is a life member of the International Society for Technology in Education and ISC. Dr. Basa received his PhD degree from Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanjadeo University (formerly North Orissa University), Baripada, Odisha; MTech (Computer Science) from F.M. University, Balasore, Odisha; and MCA from BPUT, Rourkela, Odisha, India.