Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies

From Science to Innovation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-66980-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1060 g

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benetto, Enrico

Guiton, Mélanie

Gericke, Kilian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Energiewirtschaft: Alternative & Erneuerbare Energien
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introducing Life Cycle Management.- Introduction: Life Cycle Management.- Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice.- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize Sustainability Within Organizations.- How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business?.- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management .- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level —Different Approaches.- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach.- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice.- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business.- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner.- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships.- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management.- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies.- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action.- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain.- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation.- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management.- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting.- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management.- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil.- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.-Communication and Collaboration as Essential Elements for Mainstreaming Life Cycle Management.-Part V: Implementation and Case Studies of Life Cycle Management in Different Business and Industry Sector.-Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Management in the Electricity Sector.- Life Cycle Management Applied to Urban Fabric Planning.- Implementing Life Cycle Engineering in Automotive Development as a Helpful Management Tool to Support Design for Environment.- Managing Life cycle Sustainability Aspects in the Automotive Industry.- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize the Creating Shared Value Concept in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study.

Über Autor(innen)

Enrico Benetto is a successfull R&D manager at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) with 10 years experience and proven reputation in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), ecodesign and innovation of industrial systems and technologies. Dynamic, energetic, visionary and team/project-oriented professional that successfully created and developed an independent consulting firm and then created and manages a LCA research team.

Dr. Kilian Gericke is senior researcher in the Research Unit in Engineering Science of the University of Luxembourg. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Berlin, Germany. After receiving his diploma in 2005 he worked at the Technische Universität Berlin until 2010 as Research Associate and obtained his PhD in 2011. Since 2010 he works at the University of Luxembourg in the Engineering Design and Methodology group which is part of the Research Unit in Engineering Science.Dr. Gericke is lecturing courses on Machine El

ements, Systematic Product Development and Sustainable Development and is supervising student design projects. His main research interests are in systematic product development and design process management. In his work he analyses potentials and ways of exchanging and adapting methods and systematic design approaches across different design disciplines. Dr. Gericke is chair of the Design Society's Special Interest Group on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP).