Abstract
In today's world where technological dynamics are changing, it is necessary to take sustainable steps beyond understanding the interaction of humans and nature. One of the keys to sustainability is that future generations are part of innovative solutions that balance nature and humans. Permanent steps must be taken with the complex nature of the interaction to lead structures that integrate human and environmental systems. Therefore, this chapter discusses ecological leadership and sustainability through innovative solutions, including for future generations. In this way, the nature of socio-ecological systems can be understood more clearly, and attention can be drawn to the steps to be taken for conscious development.
TopMethodology
In this part of the book, secondary data collected from various sources such as books, articles, and conference proceedings are used. The information compiled with a broad perspective is presented as a result of studies from various research areas such as sustainability, eco-innovation, eco-leadership, technology and generations. Thus, qualitative research methods using secondary data to draw attention to new terms are used in this chapter.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Reverse Innovation: Reverse or trickle innovation, an innovation seen or used in poor or developing countries before spreading to industrialized countries, is the process of repackaging low-cost products developed for poor countries into low-cost innovative products for developed countries.
Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: ( SEE): Sustainable enterprise excellence is an integrated management approach to achieving business excellence as a union of enterprise excellence and sustainability.
Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: ( ECM): Environmentally conscious manufacturing is a new way of strategic thinking about a production that focuses on the most efficient and effective use of raw materials and natural resources while minimizing negative impacts on workers and the environment.
International Innovation Index: It is the largest and most comprehensive global index measuring the level of innovation of countries to identify what countries and companies do and should do.
Sustainopreneurship: It is a type of entrepreneurship arising from the concepts of social entrepreneurship and eco-entrepreneurship by bringing together the concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability.
Corporate Social Responsibility: ( CSR): Corporate social responsibility is a form of international business self-regulation that aims to contribute to philanthropic, activist, or charitable social causes by participating in or supporting voluntary or ethically oriented practices.
Non-Governmental Organization: ( NGO): Non-governmental organizations are non-profit organizations that operate independently of official institutions and work with lobbying, persuasion, and actions in line with their political, social, cultural, legal, and environmental goals.
Social-Ecological System: ( SES): A social-ecological system consists of a complex and adaptive 'bio-geo-physical' unit and associated social actors and institutions, delimited by the spatial or functional boundaries surrounding particular ecosystems and contextual issues.
Circular Economy (CE): Circular economy is an industrial term in industrial economics that refers to recycling and reproduction rather than the process of production, use, and disposal.
Social-Ecological Innovation: ( SEI): Social-ecological innovation is a kind of social innovation, including new technology, strategies, concepts, ideas, institutions, and organizations that enhance the capacity of ecosystems to generate services and help steer away from multiple earth-system thresholds.