This volume s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact of relationships between business organisations, an area where the boundary separating internal and external accounting is ill-defined. Here, contributors advocate what they term accounting for cooperation as a more environmentally positive complement to the paradigmatic practice of accounting for competition ."
This volume s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the...
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 socio-economic system. Instead, various mental models and values guide this attribution. This leads to a functional model in a specific decision situation.
This book shows for the first time how mental models and values influence this attribution in the life cycle inventory step of LCA. One...
In an environmental life cycle assessment of products (LCA), an unambiguous, scientifically based, objective attribution of material and energy flo...
Eco-efficiency has long been a concept: the intention of reducing environmental impact while increasing environmental value. Its origins are with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. However, in a globalized world with sustained economic growth environmental degradation is threatening. Macro level requirements on sustainability should be reflected in the eco-efficiency of choices at a micro level, like on technologies, supply chains and product systems. Eco-efficiency analysis has come to fruition as a fully quantified method for analysis, linking to specific domains of...
Eco-efficiency has long been a concept: the intention of reducing environmental impact while increasing environmental value. Its origins are with t...
Factor X: Re-source Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry s Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished."
Factor X: Re-source Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in th...
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 Center for Management of Environmental Resources (CMER). Metals are a subset of resources, et voila However, in all honesty, management, as such, was never my core competence (to use another phrase popularized by business schools). Here comes the shocking secret. We used the word management in those...
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 tha...
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 appear so closely intertwined. Human behavior results not only from intentions and deliberate decisions, but from its interaction with technological artifacts. In the area of traffic safety, for instance, people s driving behavior is determined as much by curves, speed bumps and the power of their...
Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. Some approaches stress the importance of technology a...
This volume s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact of relationships between business organisations, an area where the boundary separating internal and external accounting is ill-defined. Here, contributors advocate what they term accounting for cooperation as a more environmentally positive complement to the paradigmatic practice of accounting for competition ."
This volume s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the...
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 scientific communities in the field of Life Cycle Management. A structured approach is followed, meaning that both demand and supply of environmental information are characterised, after which the two are linked. Chapter 2 deals with the demand side; a number of characteristics are identified including...
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...
Although every country is distinguished by its history, culture and language as well as its unique economic, environmental and social conditions, it can be expected that international operating companies will exhibit common patterns since sustainability challenges do not stop at national borders.
Building on original data based on results of the International Corporate Sustainability Barometer survey, this book depicts and analyzes the current state of corporate sustainability management and corporate social responsibility.
Part I describe the approach and summarizes the broad...
Although every country is distinguished by its history, culture and language as well as its unique economic, environmental and social conditions, i...
Factor X: Re-source Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry s Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished."
Factor X: Re-source Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in th...
