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Guidelines for designing products and their manufacturing processes to improve financial performance while benefiting the global environment

Drawing upon the experiences of dozens of major U.S. corporations, Design for Environment provides a unifying framework, based on sound management principles by which companies can simultaneously improve financial performance and benefit the global environment. At the heart of this approach is the concept of Andquot;eco-efficiency,Andquot; a measurable characteristic of products and processes that quantifies how companies generate more value with less adverse environmental impact.

The book emphasizes a life-cycle approach, which considers the costs and benefits associated with material acquisition, transportation, production, product use, and recovery for recycling or remanufacture. Design for Environment includes examples of leading companies that have put DFE into practice across a range of industries, including electronics, automotive, consumer, and chemical. For the benefit of more senior managers, the book also provides a sweeping overview of the cultural, political, and economic changes that are transforming the role of environmental management in the business world.

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This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Eco-efficiency is a concept that prescribes reducing the amount of energy and natural resources used, as well as wastes and pollutants discharged in the production of goods and services. Numerous approaches to achieving greater levels of eco-efficiency have been suggested for tourism operations and destinations. However, none of these options have been examined with respect to tourist responses to them. This paper uses a discrete choice experiment to examine visitor preferences for a set of hypothetical tourism destination eco-efficiency strategies. Visitors preferred ''eco-efficient'' planning options to business-as-usual scenarios. The degree of support for the various planning options differed by market segments. Overall, tourist support existed for many options that could increase the overall eco-efficiency of destinations. Visitors were also willing to tolerate additional fees for services that might help to offset the environmental impacts of their behaviours. By having respondents evaluate and trade-off several resort eco-efficiency strategies simultaneously, the discrete choice experiment provided a more comprehensive and realistic assessment of eco-efficiency options than would be possible using traditional survey methods. .
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Cleaner Production, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In the last decade many researchers, institutes and programs in the EU paid attention to product-service systems (PSS). Given this massive effort, it is time to take stock. Is PSS research a theoretical field in its own right? Is the PSS concept indeed the road to the Factor 10 world? Is it the road to enhanced competitiveness? What is needed to really use the potential of the concept? This paper discusses these questions summarizing the analysis done in the PSS review book 'New Business for Old Europe', various EU sponsored projects and the conceptual approach chosen in a new research network on Sustainable Consumption and Production, called SCORE! .
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This article presents the quantitative eco-efficiency method developed for prioritising environmental investments in NOGEPA, The Netherlands Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Association involving all major oil and gas producers in The Netherlands. They are committed to a high level of environmental improvement in a Covenant with Dutch central government. Quantitative assessment of eco-efficiency in terms of cost per unit of environmental improvement requires the quantification of both costs and environmental impacts, each in a single indicator. The present study focuses on the development of a single environmental indicator for that purpose. The overall process for arriving at such an indicator has been structured according to ISO 14042 about the life cycle impact assessment. For the last step in this process, the establishment of weighting factors across environmental themes, a panel method has been chosen, involving as stakeholders the government officials involved, the industry experts and independent experts from scientific institutes. .
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Drawing together the fields of environmental economics, environmental regulation and strategic management, this study discusses the question of environmental performance versus corporate practices and finds that environmental considerations can have a positive effect on business..
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This digital document is an article from Gigabit/ATM, published by Information Gatekeepers, Inc. on September 1, 2008. The length of the article is 489 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Force10 Networks senior research scientist and IEEE task force chair advocates industry role in move to eco-efficient networks.(BUSINESS)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:Gigabit/ATM (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2008
Publisher: Information Gatekeepers, Inc.
Volume: 19 Issue: 9 Page: 15(2)

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The idea of services replacing products is increasingly offered as a solution to making the production and consumption patterns of the affluent consumers more sustainable. However, the discussion about 'sustainable services' or 'sustainable product-service systems' tends to emphasize the eco-efficiency perspective, rather than explicitly capture all sustainability aspects. Social or socioeconomic considerations are often forgotten or by-passed without scrutiny. This paper argues that there is the need for a concept of sustainable services in which the social sustainability aspect is also recognized with equal attention. Since a major part of private consumption occurs in the household context-living at home and moving to and from it-this paper will put forth the concept of sustainable homeservices and will suggest a way to assess sustainability of services directed to households. For assessing the sustainability of services directed to households, a set of indicators relating to the ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability is proposed. With the aim of giving an idea of how to assess homeservices in practical terms, the paper will also exemplify how one could operationalize these indicators on an ordinal rating scale. The conclusion is that it is possible to assess the sustainability of a homeservice in a relative fashion, using 'no service' or the 'product alternative' as the point of comparison. Households alone have a limited capacity to influence their consumption choices, because other actors set the frame. For this reason, institutional arrangements for making services easily available to households are outlined. It appears that housing organizations have a central role in the alternative option for organizing the supply of service provision. They are involved in five of the seven alternative ways of supplying services that could be identified. The role of the housing organization can vary from direct supply to lighter forms, such as cooperative arrangements with external service providers, or resident involvement. .
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This landmark guide will introduce executives, managers, and engineers to an emerging business practice call Design for Environment (DfE) can provide a life-cycle approach to new product and process development that takes into consideration the environment as well. The book explains how DfE can provide a life-cycle approach to new product and process development that takes into consideration the environment, human health, and safety. Readers will find numerous techniques, guidelines, and examples covering the practical aspects of DfE-plus a broad range of case studies from AT&T, ARCO, Baxter Healthcare, Pacific Gas & Electric, Coors, Dow, and other companies..
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