Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2002"

TL;DR: In this paper, a new trend of product-service systems (PSS) that has the potential to minimise environmental impacts of both production and consumption is emerging, and a theoretical framework for PSS is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collective effort of scientists who have pioneered some of these tools and approaches and document essential elements for developing sustainability and how these elements relate to the application of the respective tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-disciplinary database containing around 650 articles, taken from the engineering, management, and policy studies disciplines, is used to identify white spots on the map of research on environmental product development.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study on the ecodesign behavior of 77 Dutch SMEs was executed in 1997, and the authors analyzed which stimuli and barriers played a role in the success or failure of the various ecodeign solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated six electricity production systems using energy and emergy (Environmental Accounting) techniques, in order to rank their relative thermodynamic and environmental efficiencies, and found that renewable energy plants required the highest environmental inputs per unit of output while fossil fuel plants required relatively small environmental inputs for cooling and to support fuel combustion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared strategies to deal with thermal and chemical emissions from electricity production processes and suggested two support areas, one using local constraints, and a second using global constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a professional method intended for managers based on quantitative life cycle assessment to identify environmental ‘hot spots’ in a reference product's life cycle and to select new environmentally optimized solutions for a new product.

TL;DR: In this article, structural path analysis was applied to recent Australian data in order to determine environmentally important input paths in terms of energy consumption, land disturbance, water use, and emissions of greenhouse gases, NOx, and SO2, for all Australian industry sectors.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of LCA in environmental management and policy is considered, and empirical data from interviews with wholesale-retail purchasers are used to illustrate how the life cycle approach influences economic agents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a transition management approach for sustainable development that can be characterized as society pull, where the society has to decide which (balance of) economical, ecological and social goals are to be met.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experiment is described to test whether the virtual eco-costs model leads to a good understanding of the eco-efficiency, of a product-service combination.

TL;DR: In this paper, the preservation of non-reproducible "key stocks" of energy, biodiversity, and space requires new and special attention in the strategic management of the sustainable enterprise, and a program for governments and enterprises to enhance progress towards the next stage of sustainable entrepreneurship is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative Life Cycle Assessment between these two flooring materials has been carried out in order to identify the one with the best environmental profile and the hot spots of the two systems, and the analysis has shown a better environmental profile for the marble tile, a particular relevance of the energy consumption in both the system and, in the ceramic system, the critical point has been found in the raw material used for the glaze manufacturing which are responsible for the relevant arsenic emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, two new options viz closed loop aluminium-chrome combination tanning and two-stage tanning have been developed and field-tested to add economic and environmental benefits to chrome tanning through modifications in process methodologies.

TL;DR: In this article, a professional environmental management system (EMS) for universities with a systematic approach to reduce the consumption of resources is presented at the University of Osnabruck in Germany.

TL;DR: In this article, a new model for evaluating the relative environmental efficiency of the seven AgipPetroli oil refineries set up in Italy during the 4-year period (1993-96).

TL;DR: The concept of chemical exergy of mixing may be the most promising basis for the development of a uniform, broad-based measure of chemical pollution, and such a measure could significantly advance a scientific approach to industrial ecology as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyze organizational aspects of product-oriented environmental management (POEM) from an individual firm's perspective, and propose case studies from the chemical industry to provide interesting viewpoints on the organization of POEM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the environmental reports presented by companies in the Swedish transport sector in relation to their carbon dioxide emissions, choice of indicators, and long-term goals, and concluded that these reports cannot be used for benchmarking, nor for useful ranking of performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework of six types of product chain management is presented, and the diversity in strategies open to each of these actors in the product chain is a main focus of the paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of the identification and assessment processes within the integrated forest product company Stora Enso has shown inadequacies regarding the reproducibility, and the results of the survey are the basis for the development of a new, more reproducible method.

TL;DR: The University of Michigan Housing Division's (Housing) study on creating an environmental management system based on sustainability, completed in July 1999, develops a rationale for organizational alignment with sustainability and assesses leading edge practices as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether long-term agreements on energy efficiency improvement can bring about improvements in energy efficiency additional to those that would occur anyway, were there no such agreements, and found that between a quarter and half of the energy savings in Dutch manufacturing industry can be attributed to the agreements.

TL;DR: The Sustainable Universities Initiative (SUI) as discussed by the authors is an environmental management system geared specifically toward the needs of higher education, which has been used at three research universities in South Carolina.

TL;DR: The Technical University of Catalonia as discussed by the authors is currently working on a process of curriculum greening and co-ordination of environmental research as set out in its Environment Plan and assesses the results obtained so far.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a survey of companies in five European countries and show that the effects of clean technologies on employment are different according to the technologies adopted, the size and branch of the companies, the cleaner production programs involved, the motivation of companies to adopt clean technologies and the extent to which employees could participate in the decision-making and adoption process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed life cycle inventory (LCI) data for forest seedling production and the amount of energy and commodities used, and the emissions released to the atmosphere as a consequence of the seedlings production were calculated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined and implemented a tool allowing to address the diversity of activities and end-uses when analysing energy demand and environmental impact on a campus, and evaluated the floor surface area-based ratios for each activity, and required the assessment of reference values to be used on the campus.

TL;DR: In this article, a five-step methodology based on a simultaneous investment and long-term production model using a mixed-integer optimisation approach has been developed for the economic and ecological assessment of investments in inter-firm energy supply concepts.