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Wimmer, Wolfgang; Züst, Rainer

 
9781402010903: ECODESIGN Pilot: Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development with CD-ROM (Alliance for Global ... Global Sustainability Bookseries, 3, Band 3)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1402010907 ISBN 13: 9781402010903
Verlag: Springer, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions. This kind of environmental policy -- a clearly reactive approach – has shown a mounting array of limitations. There is a clear need to seek new solutions, in particular those involving the initiative of firms themselves. Since the mid-1980’s, a new approach called “environmental management” has been established in research and practical applications; it is designed to systematically integrate environmental considerations into company activities. If, for instance, environmental objectives are being formulated for an enterprise, it is imperative to identify, highlight, and analyze real and significant environmental impacts of the firm's activities and to take appropriate measures to improve its performance. Controlling and implementing these environmental objectives requires suitable structures, procedures, and tools. Many motivated companies have approached the issue of environmental management through incorporating methods such “continual improvement processes” and “Life Cycle Assessment” into the various operational activities of the enterprise. Some firms initiated such transformation processes at their own production sites because it was easier to identify their own environmental impacts than to analyze, let alone mitigate, the effects of upstream and downstream processes. However, in many cases these processes are decisive factors in the overall environmental performance of a product. It has become clear that product design can influence these processes to a great extent.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Wolfgang Wimmer is professor for Engineering Design and Ecodesign at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT

Prof. Dr., Dipl. Ing. Rainer Züst ist Assistenzprofessor für Betriebswissenschaften an der ETH Zürich. Er unterrichtet "Systems Engineering" an der ETH, an Ingenieurschulen in der Schweiz und an ausländischen Universitäten. Er ist in zahlreiche Praxisprojekte involviert, die mit "Systems Engineering" zum erfolgreichen Abschluss gebracht wurden.

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Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions. This kind of environmental policy -- a clearly reactive approach ¿ has shown a mounting array of limitations. There is a clear need to seek new solutions, in particular those involving the initiative of firms themselves. Since the mid-1980¿s, a new approach called ¿environmental management¿ has been established in research and practical applications; it is designed to systematically integrate environmental considerations into company activities. If, for instance, environmental objectives are being formulated for an enterprise, it is imperative to identify, highlight, and analyze real and significant environmental impacts of the firm's activities and to take appropriate measures to improve its performance. Controlling and implementing these environmental objectives requires suitable structures, procedures, and tools. Many motivated companies have approached the issue of environmental management through incorporating methods such ¿continual improvement processes¿ and ¿Life Cycle Assessment¿ into the various operational activities of the enterprise. Some firms initiated such transformation processes at their own production sites because it was easier to identify their own environmental impacts than to analyze, let alone mitigate, the effects of upstream and downstream processes. However, in many cases these processes are decisive factors in the overall environmental performance of a product. It has become clear that product design can influence these processes to a great extent.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1402010907
ISBN 13 
9781402010903
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
109
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