Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 100 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 348 g
Reihe: Environment & Management
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 100 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 348 g
Reihe: Environment & Management
ISBN: 978-0-7923-3786-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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Foreword. 1: Technology as a partial solution to environmental problems. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Natural resources. 1.3. Pollution. 1.4. Loss of (living) nature. 1.5. Sustainable industrial society. 1.6. The contribution of technology. 1.7. Environmental improvements in the North and in the South. Literature. 2: Government intervention favouring environmental improvement of products and production processes. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. What governments can do to stimulate environmentally improved products and production processes. 3: Environmentally improved products. 3.1. Organizing for product improvement. 3.2. Sustainable resource use. 3.3. Environmental screening of products. 3.4. Improvement of products on the basis of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). 3.5. Checklists, rules of the thumb and approaches concentrating on major environmental impacts of products. 3.6. Toxics use reduction. 3.7. Design for closed-loop use. 3.8. Extension of useful product lifetime. 3.9. Using standards for improved products. 3.10. Measurement of product improvement. Literature. 4: Environmentally improved production processes. 4.1. Organizing for cleaner technology. 4.2. Methodology for the generation and implementation of cleaner technology options. 4.3. Opportunities for cleaner production. 4.4. Evaluation of environmental benefits of cleaner technology. Literature. 5: Concluding remarks.