Format:
1 online resource (470 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781874719366
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9781907643217
Content:
In response to toughening environmental legislation, national and supra-national environmental product policies and growing customer demands, this book provides both analysis and case studies on why and how companies are developing new products and services to fit "triple-bottom-line" expectations
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 1: Background to Sustainable Consumption and Production -- 1. Sustainable development: from catchwords to benchmarks and operational concepts -- 1.1 The history of development of the sustainability concept -- 1.2 What is sustainable development? -- 1.2.1 Sustainable development: a definition -- 1.2.2 Macro measurements -- 1.2.3 The concept and its limits -- 1.3 What is sustainable production and consumption? -- 1.3.1 Measures of consumption -- 1.3.2 Business and state consumption -- 1.3.3 Household consumption -- 1.3.4 Sustainable growth: minimum benchmarking conditions -- 1.4 Applying the concept of sustainability -- 1.4.1 Sustainability metrics for the micro level -- 1.4.2 The corporate human development index (CHDI) -- 1.5 Supporters, opponents and the role of ecodesign -- 1.5.1 Supporters and opponents -- 1.5.2 Some key strategies and the role of ecodesign -- 1.6 Outlook -- 2. Rewiring global consumption: strategies for transformation -- 2.1 The consumption explosion -- 2.2 Consuming the globe? -- 2.3 Re-linking consumption and quality of life -- 2.4 From niche to system -- 2.5 Achieving the global shift -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3. Sustainable solutions in less industrialised countries: the conditions and actors at state and company level for sustainable product design -- 3.1 Environmental management as a framework for sustainable product development and design in less industrialised countries -- 3.1.1 Basic ecological rules -- 3.1.2 The environmental impact equation -- 3.1.3 The management framework -- 3.1.4 Drivers and obstacles for sustainable product development and design in less industrialised countries -- 3.1.5 The role of legislation -- 3.2 Potential strategies for implementation -- 3.2.1 State level
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12.3.1 Ecodesign: seven-stage model -- 12.3.2 Ecodesign managers and ecodesigners -- 12.4 Eco-product development -- 12.4.1 Conceptualisation -- 12.4.2 Evaluation -- 12.4.3 Refining concepts -- 12.4.4 Prototype, test marketing and manufacturing -- 12.4.5 Market launch -- 12.5 Implementation of ecodesign -- 12.5.1 Hewlett-Packard -- 12.5.2 IBM -- 12.5.3 Kodak -- 12.5.4 Electrolux -- 12.5.5 Body Shop International -- 12.6 Conclusions -- 13. Towards a model for product-oriented environmental management systems -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.1.1 From cure to prevention -- 13.1.2 From processes to products -- 13.1.3 From reactive to proactive and from command and control to self-regulation -- 13.1.4 From technological to managerial -- 13.2 Environment-oriented innovation and ecodesign -- 13.3 Why use product-oriented environmental management systems? -- 13.4 Case study of a truck manufacturer -- 13.4.1 Introduction -- 13.4.2 The product development process and ecodesign -- 13.4.3 Towards a model of product-oriented environmental management systems -- 13.4.4 Consequences of the product-oriented environmental management system at company T -- 13.5 The future of product-oriented environmental management systems -- 13.5.1 Conclusions from the experience at company T -- 13.5.2 Other case studies -- 13.6 Conclusions -- 14. Tools for ecodesign and sustainable product design -- 14.1 Key aspects of sustainable design -- 14.2 The product development and design process -- 14.3 Tools for sustainable design and ecodesign -- 14.3.1 Analysis of environmental strengths and weaknesses -- 14.3.2 Priority setting and selection of the most important potential improvements -- 14.3.3 Implementation: provision of assistance for idea generation, design and draft specification
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14.3.4 Co-ordination with other important criteria: cost-benefit analysis and economic feasibility studies
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3.2.2 Regional level -- 3.2.3 Company level -- 3.2.4 Consultancies -- 3.2.5 Industry associations -- 3.2.6 Establishing an environmental information system -- 3.2.7 Programmes for international technical aid -- 3.4 Conclusions -- 4. Towards sustainable business? -- 4.1 What is sustainable business? -- 4.2 A sustainable value chain -- 4.2.1 External relations -- 4.2.2 Firm infrastructure -- 4.2.3 Human resources -- 4.2.4 Science and technology -- 4.2.5 Procurement -- 4.2.6 Premises -- 4.2.7 Design -- 4.2.8 Inbound and outbound logistics -- 4.2.9 Operations -- 4.2.10 Marketing and sales -- 4.2.11 Service -- 4.2.12 Product disposal -- 4.2.13 Risk management -- 4.3 Winning hearts and minds for sustainable business -- 4.4 Evaluating sustainable business -- 4.5 The future of sustainable business -- 5. Integrated product policy and eco-product development -- 5.1 Background -- 5.2 Integrated product policy -- 5.2.1 Definitions -- 5.2.2 Objectives and conceptual approach -- 5.2.3 Principles and strategies -- 5.2.4 Building blocks -- 5.2.5 Integrated product policy toolbox -- 5.2.6 Uncertainty surrounding integrated product policy -- 5.3 Environmental product policy: Denmark's approach -- 5.3.1 Accumulation of know-how, methodology and competence -- 5.3.2 Information tools -- 5.3.3 Green taxes -- 5.3.4 Subsidies -- 5.3.5 Green pubic procurement -- 5.3.6 Establishment of product area panels -- 5.4 Integrated product policy: a different perspective -- 5.5 Integrated product policy and eco-product development -- 5.5.1 Focus on the electronics sector -- 5.6 Concluding remarks -- PART 2: Sustainable, Eco-product and Eco-service Development -- 6. Sustainable product design -- 6.1 What is sustainable product design? -- 6.1.1 Product design -- 6.1.2 Ecodesign and design for environment -- 6.1.3 Sustainable product design is more than ecodesign
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6.2 Drivers and obstacles for sustainable product design -- 6.2.1 Changing patterns of consumption and production -- 6.2.2 Changing technologies -- 6.2.3 Changing economic and social patterns -- 6.3 Sustainable product design strategies -- 6.3.1 From repair to rethink: the four Rs -- 6.3.2 Eco-innovation -- 6.4 Sustainable solutions -- 6.4.1 Sustainable product design models -- 6.4.2 Examples of sustainable product design -- 6.5 Conclusions -- 7. The Next Industrial Revolution -- 7.1 Why eco-efficiency won't work -- 7.1.1 A retroactive design assignment -- 7.2 Eco-effectiveness -- 7.2.1 Principle 1: waste equals food -- 7.2.2 Principle 2: respect diversity -- 7.2.3 Principle 3: use current solar income -- 7.3 Equity, economy, ecology -- 7.3.1 A new design assignment -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 8. Sustainability and services -- 8.1 Sustainability as a vision -- 8.1.1 Crossing the first borderline to a sustainable economy -- 8.1.2 Crossing the second borderline to a sustainable society -- 8.2 The service economy: selling performance instead of goods -- 8.3 Policies for more sustainable solutions -- 8.4 Strategies for more sustainable solutions -- 8.4.1 Sufficiency solutions -- 8.4.2 Efficiency solutions -- 8.5 The shift from manufacturing to a service economy -- 8.6 The way to sustainable solutions: benchmarking -- 9. Measuring sustainability in ecodesign -- 9.1 State of the art -- 9.1.1 Economic performance evaluation -- 9.1.2 Environmental performance evaluation -- 9.1.3 Societal performance evaluation -- 9.1.4 Sustainability reporting -- 9.2 Sustainability measurement principles -- 9.2.1 Resource and value -- 9.2.2 The 'triple bottom line' -- 9.2.3 Life-cycle consideration -- 9.2.4 Leading and lagging indicators -- 9.3 Sustainability indicator selection process -- 9.3.1 Step 1: consider stakeholder needs -- 9.3.2 Step 2: identify major product aspects
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9.3.3 Step 3: establish objectives -- 9.3.4 Step 4: select indicators and metrics -- 9.3.5 Step 5: determine targets -- 9.4 Best-practice companies -- 9.4.1 Company profiles -- 9.4.2 Applying the principles -- 9.4.3 Applying the indicator selection process -- 9.5 Integrated product development -- 9.6 The strategic importance of sustainability measurement -- Case-study company websites and source material -- 10. What sustainable solutions do small and medium-sized enterprises prefer? -- 10.1 Why do small and medium-sized enterprises need specific support? -- 10.2 Studying design for environment preferences in the innovation centre ecodesign project -- 10.2.1 The innovation centre ecodesign project -- 10.2.2 Participating companies and products involved -- 10.2.3 Classifying the design for environment improvement options -- 10.2.4 Success rate of the design for environment improvement options -- 10.2.5 The newness of the design for environment improvement options -- 10.3 Results: types, success rates and newness of the studied design for environment options -- 10.3.1 The most frequently suggested design for environment principles -- 10.3.2 The most successful design for environment principles -- 10.3.3 Comparison with other studies -- 10.3.4 Successful but less frequently suggested design for environment principles -- 10.3.5 Newness or additional value of the design for environment options -- 10.4 Conclusions and recommendations -- 11. Sustainable product development: a strategy for developing countries -- 11.1 A sustainable product development strategy -- 11.1.1 Assessment phase -- 11.1.2 Implementation phase -- 11.2 Case study: furniture production in the Purépecha region of Mexico -- 11.3 Conclusions -- 12. Managing ecodesign -- 12.1 Where are we now? -- 12.2 The organisational context of ecodesign -- 12.3 Organisational integration of ecodesign
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Print version Charter, Martin Sustainable Solutions Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2001 ISBN 9781874719366
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