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Sustainability: Sustainability: A new professional responsibility?

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Publication date1/01/2016
Host publicationAdvances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Uncharted Territory
EditorsDarren Dalcher
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)9781315565729
ISBN (print)9781472429124
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Our last chapter focused on the growing complexity of projects, alongside the shortcomings of the classical approach to project management in dealing with an ever-widening spectrum of concerns. Projects increasingly involve larger groups and communities of stakeholders and hitherto uninvolved observers with more demanding interests, queries and issues. The current financial austerity climate makes it easier to shift our focus to short-term concerns, ignoring longer-term implications, yet, we are increasingly asked to apply extended life cycles, to consider decommissioning and safe disposal and to enable project artefacts to evolve and adapt so that they can be utilised in new contexts, situations or environments. Such thinking stands in stark contrast to the focus on short-term financial gains, as it implies an intelligent and meaningful long-term engagement with the future.