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  title info:
    title: ECODESIGN -- The Competitive Advantage
  name:
    name part: Wimmer, Wolfgang.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lee, Kun-Mo.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Quella, Ferdinand.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Polak, John.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 228 p. online resource.
  abstract: Two significant trends are shaping the environmental agenda: Green procurement - more and more businesses, governments and even consumers are seeking ecoproducts; and, new product related guidelines, directives and regulations have already been developed. How should business respond? There are tools and approaches available. This book, "ECODESIGN – the competitive advantage", was written specifically to provide guidance and will help managers of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as others interested in the management of business, in a range of ways, including: how to best deal with the European Union’s new Ecodesign directives; how to understand the concepts behind (and the process of calculating) the carbon footprint of products; how to prepare for future challenges related to, for example, climate change, resource depletion and shortages, increasing restrictions on the use of toxic substances, and energy management; and how to best position products which have been environmentally improved in a competitive marketplace. In order to deal with the myriad of challenges, the authors have included simple, but detailed checklists that can be used to evaluate a company’s operations and serve as a guide to finding solutions. These have been structured around the corporate, management, product and production levels typically found in any enterprise. Environmental expenditures should not be viewed as costs, but rather investments – with the expectation that prudent investment will yield competitive advantage.
  table of contents: Sustainability as a Competitive Business Advantage -- Situation Analysis -- Strategy Development -- Action Plan Development -- Examples -- Outlook: Sustainability – What Does the Future Hold?.
  note: by Wolfgang Wimmer, Kun-Mo Lee, Ferdinand Quella, John Polak.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economy
  subject:
    topic: Electronics
  subject:
    topic: Microelectronics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Design
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
  subject:
    topic: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation
  classification: GE300-350
  classification: 333.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, Science and Technology: Tools for Sustainable Development, 18
  identifier: 9789048191277
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9127-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 100917
    record change date: 20151204172657.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-9127-7