SUSTAINABILITY AND

STRATEGIC AUDIT
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 MODULE
4
SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT RESOURCE
ASSESSMENT

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Introduction
In the past 300 years, industry has been all about expansion and
growth-unlimited growth with little regard for the social cost on the
people who make up the labour force or the environmental resources
that drive the supply chains.

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Learning Objectives:

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Figure 25. Supply Chain
Process

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Figure 26. World Resource
Usage

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Figure 27. ESG Sustainable Strategic
Management

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CREATION OF
VALUE
·Reduce waste
·Use resource more efficiently
·Promote sustainable development
·Every product should bring in MORE value than what we TAKE
from the environment
·PROFIT in its truest and holistic sense

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Figure 28. Unilever SSM
(Sample)

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Figure 29. Adidas SSM
(Sample)

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SUSTAINABILITY MATURITY LEVEL
Purpose:
Increase your awareness on Sustainability
Empower you to continue your journey
Identify the maturity level of your organization
Identify next steps

Tools:
Strategy: The ‘Why,’ your purpose and direction
Are of focus: How you implement initiatives / programs and your focus
Effectiveness: How well you implement, measure, monitor evaluate your
and initiatives
Communication: Internal and external communication methods and practices

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Resource Management
A resource assessment can be defined as the process by which
resource managers estimate a product's future production potential

A resource assessment, for the purposes of these guidelines, is

characterized as the activities necessary to evaluate a managed
species' long-term production potential by understanding population
dynamics and determining acceptable harvest rates and practices to
ensure long-term management (Wong 2000, Hall and Bawa 1993).

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Resource assessment offers data for identifying knowledge gaps that
need to be filled as well as population characteristics that need to be
tracked over time. This strategy focuses on the controlled population
possibilities and takes into account the characteristics that have a direct
effect on the availability of supply and the capacity for long-term use
(Hall and Bawa 1993).
Other approaches are broader, attempting to identify products and
describe an ideal development process that, in some cases, begins
with species selection and continues through market research,
resource inventory, participatory assessments, determination of
sustainable harvest practices and intensities, management planning,
and monitoring (e.g., Peters 1994, 1996, and Stockdale 2005).

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Natural Resources Assessment and Management Services
Natural resources (or Natural Capital) provide factories with raw
materials, provide livelihoods for people, and generate revenue for
economies.

Services include but are not limited to; Water resources

assessment and management.
Evaluate, design, and enforce sustainable water resource
management strategies at the basin or site level, taking into
account environmental, economic, and social factors.

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Land-use change and Landscape dynamics
Landscapes are ever-changing and complex. Land-cover changes
arise as a result of both natural and anthropogenic factors, such as
land-use change.

Human-wildlife conflict and Bushmeat Management

Human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) and bushmeat trade are two of the
most serious challenges to Africa's protected areas management.

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Ecosystem services surveys, analysis and mapping
We apply cutting-edge tools such as InVest for assessing, valuing and
mapping priority ecosystem services to understand their distributions,
threats, value, amongst others.

A systems approach to the evaluation of natural resource management

initiatives
Adopting a new paradigm for natural resource and environmental policy
that emphasizes constant change, adaptation, and learning necessitates
a new approach to assessment in order to strengthen how these
programs lead to sustainable resource use.
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The authors create a set of principles for evaluation in natural resource
management (NRM) based on a consideration of evolving approaches to
NRM policy and findings and experiences in the realistic assessment of on-
the-ground initiatives:

a) addresses evaluation from a systems perspective,

b) links objective to consequence,
c) considers the fundamental assumptions and hypotheses that underpin core policy or program objectives,
d)is grounded in the natural resource, policy/institutional, economic, socio-cultural and technological
contexts of implementation in practice,
e) establishes practical and valid evaluation criteria by which change can be monitored and assessed,
f)involves methodological pluralism including both quantitative and qualitative methods to ensure rigour
and comprehensiveness in assessment, and
g)integratesdifferent disciplinary perspectives (i.e. social, economic, environmental, policy and
technological).

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Assessment of resource efficiency indicators and
targets Indicators are used to discuss and draw attention to
important problems - or, to put it another way, "what gets
measured gets handled."

DPSIR framework
It's useful for explaining the connections between the use of natural
resources, their effects on the ecosystem, and resource efficiency
challenges (see Figure 30).

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Figure 30. DPSIR
Framework

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Resource efficiency indicators
The Commission’s Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural
Resources defined three types of indicators needed to measure resource
efficiency (see Figure 31):
Indicators to measure progress in productivity of the use of resources
(resource productivity), e.g. €/kg
Indicators to evaluate the environmental impact of the use of specific
resources, e.g. impact/kg
Indicators to measure progress in reducing the ecological
stress of resource use (eco-efficiency), e.g. €/impact

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THREE SETS OF INFORMATION

the sources and quantities of resource usage

the socioeconomic benefits we reap from them
the environmental effects of all life cycle
stages

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Resource use indicators
The quantity, availability, and efficiency of natural resources are
the key problems of unsustainable resource use.

Indicators of resource usage should provide information on

the nature, quantity (e.g. renewable, non-renewable,
exhaustible, non-exhaustible), availability, and location of
resources extracted.

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Environmental impact indicators
In addition to affecting natural resource supplies, resource usage has
an effect on the climate and human health as a result of a series of
changes in the natural environment.
Materials, water, land use, and energy are examples of inputs, while
waste and emissions to the air, water, and soil are examples of
outputs.
These inputs and outputs are then weighed against various
environmental impact scenarios (e.g. climate change,
eutrophication, ecotoxicity).

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Socio-economic indicators
Traditional resource valuation has been based on economic
market value, which is calculated by supply and demand.

The importance of ecosystem services and the potential

effect of resource usage on human well-being is
gaining traction.

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Figure 31. The three indicator categories needed to measure resource
efficiency

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Existing resource use and resource efficiency
targets
Although hundreds of indicators for tracking resource use have been
developed, only a few are used to set concrete, quantitative targets.
With the exception of GHG emissions and renewable energy, an
analysis of resource use and resource usage related goals in EU
Member States, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Switzerland, and the
United States reveals that strategic priorities for resource use appear to
be common in nature.

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Figure 32. Overview of targets with clear links to environmental
threshold

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Resource use related environmental impact indicators
The most popular indicators for reporting on the environmental impacts
of resource use are environmental accounts and indicators based on
life cycle inventory data.

Approaches to proposing targets for policy

Targeted policy can be an effective tool for coping with environmental
concerns.

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There are several approaches to goal-setting, and four
viewpoints have been listed among them.
The perspective of limitations to the resource base
The perspective of limitations to absorption capacities of
the earth’s ecosystems
The perspective of efficient and equitable resource supply
for people
The perspective of efficient and equitable resource supply
for economies

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