Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe acid mine drainage generation and its associated technical issues, and present three basic levels: primary prevention of acid-generating process, secondary control, and tertiary control, or the collection and treatment of effluent.

TL;DR: In the last decade many researchers, institutes and programs in the EU paid attention to product-service systems (PSS), and given this massive effort, it is time to take stock.

TL;DR: A detailed review of the development of the media of social and environmental disclosure in the mining industry can be found in this article, where a temporal analysis of the recent trends in disclosure using a case study of the world's 10 largest mining companies is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared drivers and practices of green supply chain management (GSCM) in one developing country, China, focusing on three typical sectors, the automobile industry, the thermal power plants and the electronic/electrical industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the types of conflicts that might arise and the role of the campus sustainable development champion in preventing or solving them, and also present several approaches and strategies to overcome this resistance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive managerial model for a sustainable university created by D.Sc. L. Velazquez with empirical data collected from about 80 higher education institutions around the world.

TL;DR: A process for the systematic design of product related technical services is introduced that upon its modularization represents a promising starting point for linkage with corresponding product design processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a tool called "The Ten Golden Rules" to facilitate the integration of reasonable environmental demands into the product development process, which can be used as a base and guidelines for development of situation specific product-design challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effective use of biomass as the first of the renewable energy sources to be developed for large-scale applications, especially in the palm oil industry and the methodology for energy harness by innovative utilization of waste from palm oil cultivation and processing.

TL;DR: Methods to define a map of the actors involved in PSS, methods to define requirements and structure of a P SS and methods to represent and blueprint a PSS are proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the outcome of green project partnership in terms of operational performance in the supply chain and found that green project partnerships with customers were positively linked to quality, flexibility and environmental performance while partnership with suppliers was associated with better delivery performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss three levels of integration: increased compatibility of system elements over coordination of generic processes, embeddedness of an integrated management system (IMS) in a culture of learning and continuous improvements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a trade-off situation often occurs in the product development and procurement processes when alternative solutions emphasize different aspects that have to be balanced against each other in order to balance different aspects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of a study undertaken to assess the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of mining in Geita District, Tanzania, in addition to sampling community perceptions of mining activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of alternative lixiviant systems for the recovery of gold from ores and concentrates are reviewed, but none has yet made any significant inroad into the dominant position of cyanide as the reagent of choice at the vast majority of gold mines worldwide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the world beer market in order to highlight the heterogeneity in capacity of global beer production from a synthesis of existing literature, water consumption is analyzed and the most common treatments and associated costs are reported.

TL;DR: The Graphical Assessment of Sustainability in Universities (GASU) as discussed by the authors is a tool developed by the author to facilitate the analysis, longitudinal comparison and benchmarking of universities' sustainability efforts and achievement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a transdisciplinary case study approach for sustainable development in which students, teachers and researchers have to abandon the role paradigm of the teacher as provider of information and the students as consumers of the provided information.

TL;DR: EcoDesign is a concept including human sustainability priorities together with business interrelations as discussed by the authors, its main objective in the improvementof product development methods is to reduce environmenta..., and

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of identifying environmental principles for the design and operation of supply chains is dealt with, along with the approaches that are applied in order to improve their environmental performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the findings of research conducted as part of the SOLiD project which considered the transfer and application of the Product Service System (PSS) concept from academia to industry in the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present present use of Hg in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) worldwide, reveal the origin of part of the Hg used by the gold miners, and propose appropriate actions to reduce the resulting Hg emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model of universities as development hubs for sustainable development, which is based on a shift of the learning paradigm to problem-oriented and project-based learning, human resource development and joint research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the contribution that mining has made to poverty reduction, and assesses the prospects for better performance in the future, concluding that mining can positively contribute toward poverty alleviation, but only if a variety of demanding preconditions are met.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new business model based on selling the function that baby prams provide through leasing prams, and discuss potential barriers and necessary changes in product design and the supply chain to make it work.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of two electricity companies is used to illustrate the importance of evaluating environmental awareness efforts, and the results of the study suggest that the training performed did not sufficiently increase employee environmental awareness of the company's environmental impacts despite a considerable time and financial investment in a one-time environmental awareness training program.

TL;DR: In the field of ecodesign research, existing paradigms still stress the importance of relatively traditional internal value chain issues, such as formal organisation, tool development, customization and formal management commitment as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the links between environmental management accounting and measures of eco-efficiency in Japanese business and concluded that the practice of linking ecoefficiency measurement with environmental management information is underutilised, diverse and in need of further promotion if EMA is to help Japanese business move production processes and consumption of its products towards sustainability.

TL;DR: The conclusions recognise the importance of developing holistic tools for industrial designers, identifying that a combination of guidance, education and information, along with well considered content, appropriate presentation and easy access are all critical to their success.

TL;DR: The sustainable product and/or service development (SPSD) approach is a pragmatic industry support encompassing a range of strategies aimed at maximising environmental and social performance in all types of offerings whether they are “products, services, or Product Service Systems (PSS) as mentioned in this paper.