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Abbravation: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

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Springer-Verlag

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10.1007/bf02770578

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1618-9558

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An integrated sustainability performance assessmen

Authors: Hella Tokos Zorka Novak Pintarič Damjan Krajnc
Publish Date: 2011/06/04
Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-193
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Breweries are responding to some sustainability challenges but many of them find sustainability assessment and reporting to be very complex difficult and timeconsuming tasks Despite several existing frameworks for the sustainability assessment of companies none of them specifically addresses breweries They do not provide them with a transparent comprehensive and integrated approach to sustainability assessment adjusted to the particular circumstances of traditional beer production In view of these requirements by the brewing industry this article aims to support breweries in sustainability assessment activities by proposing a methodology for integrated performance assessment This methodology proposes environmental societal economic and integrated indicators reflecting the characteristics of the brewing industry compatible with those general indicators proposed by the Global Reporting Initiative GRI Although it is important to assess sustainability using several indicators it may sometimes be difficult to make decisions based on a wide number of performance measurements Thus the proposed methodology gradually aggregates sustainable development indicators into sustainability subindices and finally to a composite sustainability index that tracks integrated information on the economic environmental and societal performances of a brewery over time They can be used both internally for the identification of “hot spots” and externally for sustainability reporting and stakeholder engagement Since breweries strive to outperform their competitors the proposed methodology enables the benchmarking of a brewery against best performance practices as a catalyst for improvement and innovation by providing benchmark values for each indicator The case study presented in this article illustrates how the proposed methodology could be easily applied in practice and stimulates breweries to test their effectiveness themselves


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