Looking for practical insights into how businesses can address environmental and sustainability challenges? We recommend: Business Transitions: A to Sustainability – the CapSEM Model, edited by Annik Magerholm Fet, professor at NTNU in Ålesund.
The book brings together decades of expertise from contributors who have been deeply involved in developing and implementing sustainability tools for companies.

Cover of the book, published at Springer.

The volume focuses on the environmental dimensions of Sustainable Development (SD), and presents analytical tools, from a site perspective to a life cycle perspective: tools are gathered and summarized in a toolbox. The critical discussion of the tools and their implementation is a cross-cutting theme throughout the book.
Central to this book is the CapSEM Model, which presents an analytical toolbox across four distinct levels:
Process, Product, Organizational & Systems. The model comprises a systematized methodology of assessment and management tools for sustainability and environmental management. It offers to
streamline applications for the business sector and industry.
Read more about the model in this leaflet.

Who is this for? Practitioners, businesses, and organizations can use this book as a reference when moving towards Sustainable Development. Applications of the toolbox model can also help developing countries, transferring lessons learnt elsewhere, adopting SDGs to diverse settings.

Annik Magerholm Fet. Photo: Børge Sandnes/NTNU

The editer Dr. Annik Magerholm Fet is former Vice Rector of NTNU in Ålesund and former Director and Academic Head of NTNU’s strategic research area on Sustainability. She has been a Professor of Environmental Management, Systems Engineering and Lifecycle Analysis at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at NTNU since 1999, and now holds a similar affiliation in the Department of International Business. 


The book represents the multi-disciplined collaboration at NTNU and beyond, exemplifying its use in a wealth of business sectors and a range of stakeholders from construction to textiles to wind power as outlined in the European Circular Action Plan.

Business Transitions: A to Sustainability – the CapSEM Model is available as Open Access.

Featured photo: Editor Annik Magerholm Fet together with AFINO Director Siri Granum Carson. Photo: Eva H. Murvold.