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  title info:
    title: Ecodesign Pilot
    sub title: Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development, with CD-ROM
  name:
    name part: Wimmer, Wolfgang.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Züst, Rainer.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 99 p. 432 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions. This kind of environmental policy -- a clearly reactive approach – has shown a mounting array of limitations. There is a clear need to seek new solutions, in particular those involving the initiative of firms themselves. Since the mid-1980’s, a new approach called “environmental management” has been established in research and practical applications; it is designed to systematically integrate environmental considerations into company activities. If, for instance, environmental objectives are being formulated for an enterprise, it is imperative to identify, highlight, and analyze real and significant environmental impacts of the firm's activities and to take appropriate measures to improve its performance. Controlling and implementing these environmental objectives requires suitable structures, procedures, and tools. Many motivated companies have approached the issue of environmental management through incorporating methods such “continual improvement processes” and “Life Cycle Assessment” into the various operational activities of the enterprise. Some firms initiated such transformation processes at their own production sites because it was easier to identify their own environmental impacts than to analyze, let alone mitigate, the effects of upstream and downstream processes. However, in many cases these processes are decisive factors in the overall environmental performance of a product. It has become clear that product design can influence these processes to a great extent.
  table of contents: It’s not as Simple as that... -- Systematically Identifying Weak Points -- Targeted Identification of Ecodesign Measures -- Preparing Ecodesign for Product Development -- Embedding Ecodesign in Environmental Management -- Successful Initiation of Ecodesign Projects.
  note: by Wolfgang Wimmer, Rainer Züst.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Ecotoxicology
  subject:
    topic: Pollution prevention
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecotoxicology
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Pollution Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, 3
  identifier: 9780306483936
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48393-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151103122907.0
    record identifier: 978-0-306-48393-6