Sustainability Management at Universität Hamburg

• Demographic change
• Shortage of natural resources
• Environmental awareness

• Social
• Environmental
• Economic

• Freshwater use
• Ocean acidification
• Biosphere integrity

• More is always better (even cleanup case)
• No consideration without money transaction
• Doesn’t care about distribution

• Depletion of non-renewable resources (“natural resources”)

• Accelerating industrialization (“industrial output”)

• Widespread malnutrition (“food”)

• Rapid population growth (“population”) 

• Deteriorating environment (“pollution”)

• constant stock of physical wealth
• constant population
• low rate of throughput (inevitable cost of maintaining the stocks)

• Education (years of schooling)
• Health (life expectancy)
• Living Standards (GNI per capita)

Pros

• Legally enforceable international and national agreement (‘contract’)  Government support

• Supported by leading brands  Strengthening of workers

Cons

• Further factory accidents occurred
• Unclear who has to pay for actions
• In case of ‘Critical Findings’:
• Production is often still continued by factories for non-signatory brands which are not bound to the ACCORD 

• Only addressing Bangladesh

Bottom up:

• formation of worker and safety commitees
• trade unions

Top Down:

• Fire safety infrastructure renovation
• Independent inspections

• Inter-generational equity

• Intra-generational equity
• Environmental equity

Efficiency

Consistency 

Sufficiency

• Reducing the usage of resources (to about 8 tons)

• It is not about denial, not about sacrifice, or doing without 

• It is about being satisfied with enough (contentment); “Living poor with style”