Technical Sustainability Management: Challenges and Solutions

The book details different aspects of Technical Sustainability Management that combines management, good governance, and engineering based on life cycle thinking to improve the relevant social, environmental, and economic aspects holistically. This chapter analyzes the most important challenges to sustainability progress and Technical Sustainability Management. In particular, it considers drawbacks in the areas of resources, technology, human aspects, information, legacy, and crises. Based on this, potential solutions for these challenges are provided, mainly through the lens of the Technical Sustainability Management toolbox.