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Product Innovation and Eco-Efficiency
Twenty-Two Industry Efforts to Reach the Factor 4
Av Judith E.M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker
Inbunden, 1997
1623 kr
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Systematically addressing the drivers, the tools, and sector-specific elements that play a role in the field of sustainable development, this text begins with a general introduction to eco-efficiency and the related challenges to industry in its implementation. It then presents 23 case studies, …
Adoption of Environmental Innovations
The Dynamics of Innovation as Interplay between Business Competence, Environmental Orientation and Network Involvement
Av Koos van Dijken, Yvonne Prince m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2237 kr
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How do small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt environmental innovations? Do they have the necessary internal competence? Is any support offered by external parties? What are the policy implications? This book is based on extensive fieldwork, conducted in four traditional industrial sectors …
Eco-Management Accounting
Based upon the ECOMAC research projects sponsored by the EU’s Environment and Climate Programme (DG XII, Human Dimension of Environmental Change)
Av Matteo Bartolomeo, M.D. Bennett m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1122 kr
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The ECOMAC project (Eco-management Accounting as a Tool of Environmental Man agement) has provided a framework for linking environmental management with man agement accounting. It was funded in Theme 4, 'Human Dimensions of Environmental Change' in the EU Environment and Climate Research …
Economic Models of Material-Product Chains for Environmental Policy Analysis
Inbunden, 1999
1084 kr
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A theoretical and empirical contribution to the quest for sustainability and environmental quality. The book examines the physical and economic aspects of flows of materials and products, as well as the policies and strategies designed to reduce the related resource depletion and environmental …
Potential for Industrial Energy-Efficiency Improvement in the Long Term
Av J. de Beer
Inbunden, 2000
1090 kr
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It is essential that we find out what opportunities exist for the improvement of energy efficiency, and their limitations, since this is the most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study presents a method for identifying potential technologies which can contribute to the …
Ahead of the Curve
Cases of Innovation in Environmental Management
Av K. Green, P. Groenewegen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1090 kr
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While it is generally true that the actions firms take to make them more environmentally friendly are driven by the pressure of government regulation, there are some companies that have been driven by "vision" or expectations to stay ahead of regulatory pressure. This book describes how some …
Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment
Operational Guide to the ISO Standards
Inbunden, 2002
3279 kr
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Environmental policy aims at the transition to sustainable production and consumption. This is taking place in different ways and at different levels. In cases where businesses are continuously active to improve the environmental performance of their products and activities, the availability of …
Partnership and Leadership
Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future
Av T. de Bruijn, Arnold Tukker
Inbunden, 2002
1643 kr
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Sustainable development has become a central perspective in environmental strategies around the world. It is clear that neither governments nor businesses have the capability to bring about sustainability on their own. Therefore, collaboration has emerged as a central concept. At the same time it …
Analytical Tools for Environmental Design and Management in a Systems Perspective
The Combined Use of Analytical Tools
Av Wrisberg, Nicoline Wrisberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management. The book is based on the results of the CHAINET concerted action financed by EU-DGXII for the work period 1998-2000, and is intended to build bridges between the different …
Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments
Av M.D. Bennett, J.J. Bouma m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1643 kr
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This volume aims to aid the integration of a company's environmental and business interests, thereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product more competitive. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for …
Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments
Av Jean-Pierre Antoine, Martin Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
1643 kr
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This volume aims to aid the integration of a company's environmental and business interests, thereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product more competitive. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for …
Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment
Operational Guide to the ISO Standards
Av Jeroen B. Guinee, J. B. Guinee m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
3279 kr
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Environmental policy aims at the transition to sustainable production and consumption. This is taking place in different ways and at different levels. In cases where businesses are continuously active to improve the environmental performance of their products and activities, the availability of …
Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment
Inbunden, 2002
1752 kr
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Life Cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for environmental decision-support in relation to products from the cradle to the grave. Until now, more emphasis has been put on the inclusion quantitative models and databases and on the design of guidebooks for applying LCA than on the integrative aspect of …
Environmental Management Accounting — Purpose and Progress
Av M.D. Bennett, P.M. Rikhardsson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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1 This is the second volume in the EMAN-Europe series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from 2 papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual conferences . Most of the th papersin thisvolumewere ?rstpresented at the5 EMAN-EuropeAnnual Conference at the …
Environmental Management Accounting — Purpose and Progress
Av M.D. Bennett, P.M. Rikhardsson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1098 kr
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1 This is the second volume in the EMAN-Europe series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from 2 papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual conferences . Most of the th papersin thisvolumewere ?rstpresented at the5 EMAN-EuropeAnnual Conference at the …
Life Cycle of Copper, Its Co-Products and Byproducts
Av Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions. Partial information accounts for many failed efforts in the past. The financial implications for the proponent of the projects have often been more thoroughly …
Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts
Inbunden, 2003
552 kr
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Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a …
Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts
Häftad, 2003
552 kr
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Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a …
Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Firms
The Dutch Experience
Av Kornelis Blok, Henri L.F. de Groot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1130 kr
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It is widely believed that energy efficiency improvement is one of the most interesting options to limit the emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But, it also has become clear that it is not easy to stimulate companies to adopt measures in this area. Therefore, a main question is: how …
European Union's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
Inbunden, 2005
1098 kr
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This text definitively breaks down each component of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme regulation (EMAS) - even its appendices and EU guidance documents - providing a step-by-step analysis of the Scheme. In addition, the work offers case examples of three of Akzo Nobel manufacturing locations …
Ambiguities in Decision-oriented Life Cycle Inventories
The Role of Mental Models and Values
Av Frank Werner
Inbunden, 2005
1643 kr
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In an environmental life cycle assessment of products (LCA), an unambiguous, scientifically based, ‘objective’ attribution of material and energy flows to a product is pure fiction. This is due to the fundamental epistemological conditions of LCA as a modelling process under the complexity of our …
European Union's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
Häftad, 2005
1098 kr
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This text definitively breaks down each component of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme regulation (EMAS) - even its appendices and EU guidance documents - providing a step-by-step analysis of the Scheme. In addition, the work offers case examples of three of Akzo Nobel manufacturing locations …
Implementing Environmental Management Accounting: Status and Challenges
Av Pall M. Rikhardsson, Martin Bennett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1692 kr
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This is the third volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual c- ferences. Most of the papers in this volume were ?rst presented at the 6th …
Implementing Environmental Management Accounting: Status and Challenges
Av Pall M. Rikhardsson, Martin Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1692 kr
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This is the third volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual c- ferences. Most of the papers in this volume were ?rst presented at the 6th …
Sustainable Metals Management
Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy
Av Arnim von Gleich, Robert U. Ayres m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2188 kr
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What’s in a name? What, in particular, is metals management’ all about? I suspect that my ‘ colleagues assumed that I would have a good answer, given that the endowed Sandoz Chair I occupied from 1992 until my retirement in 2000 was entitled “Environment and Management”, and at INSEAD I created a …
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Av Stefan Schaltegger, Martin Bennett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
3824 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting. This fourth volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series is characterized by a broad geographical and a contextual range …
Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology
Av Sangwon Suh
Inbunden, 2009
3714 kr
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Industrial Ecology (IE) is an emerging multidisciplinary field. University departments and higher education programs are being formed on the subject following the lead of Yale University, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Leiden University, University of Michigan at Ann …
User Behavior and Technology Development
Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies
Av Peter-Paul Verbeek, Adriaan Slob
Inbunden, 2006
1692 kr
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Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. Some approaches stress the importance of technology and technological innovation, while others focus on behavioral change. Each approach has its limitations, however, since technology and behavior often …
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Av Stefan Schaltegger, Martin Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
3012 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting. This fourth volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series is characterized by a broad geographical and a contextual range …
Quantified Eco-Efficiency
An Introduction with Applications
Av Gjalt Huppes, Masanobu Ishikawa
Inbunden, 2007
2478 kr
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A central asset of eco-efficiency analysis is that it does not depend on a specific evaluation of environmental impacts against economic effects, avoiding the often disputed results of neo-classical evaluation methods. For integrating the different environmental scores several evaluation methods …
