Sustainable Products
eBook - ePub

Sustainable Products

Life Cycle Assessment, Risk Management, Supply Chains, Ecodesign

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sustainable Products

Life Cycle Assessment, Risk Management, Supply Chains, Ecodesign

About this book

The book provides an overarching perspective on sustainability from a historical, practical and legal perspective. It offers a holistic understanding of economic and ecologic concepts. Schools for sustainable business models are introduced and discussed. As a broader concept Life Cycle Assessments are discussed and examples for their application are provided with a focus on CO2 Footprints. Ecodesign as measures for reducing Carbon Footprints are introduced both for physical products and for service organizations. From an organizational perspective it is clear that managing the reduction of the sustainability-related impact is a matter that has to involve all stakeholders. Tasks for all involved are given and their contributions are described. As it is crucial to provide evidence for the activities reported audits are described as well methods to transfer information to the appropriate stakeholders. The book is targeted at practitioners and students who want to get to know the subject or need to implement the respective measures in companies.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9783111314822
eBook ISBN
9783111315669
Edition
2

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1 Historical development and basic ideas
  5. Chapter 2 Economic concepts in the context of sustainability
  6. Chapter 3 Business and sustainability
  7. Chapter 4 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and footprints
  8. Chapter 5 CO2 footprint: assessment, calculation, reduction
  9. Chapter 6 Ecodesign
  10. Chapter 7 Life cycle assessment of an organisation
  11. Chapter 8 Energy and material strategy
  12. Chapter 9 Internal stakeholders
  13. Chapter 10 Audits
  14. Chapter 11 Reporting, legal requirements and risk assessment
  15. Chapter 12 Information and transparency
  16. Chapter 13 Perspectives
  17. Index