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  title info:
    title: Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business
    sub title: Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications
  name:
    name part: Frankl, Paolo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Rubik, Frieder.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 280 pages)
  abstract: The challenge of our time is the greening of products. Different tools and concepts to support this process have been developed in the past decade. Among others, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) appears as one of the most instructive management instruments for gaining insight into product-related environmental impacts and for supporting an effective integration of environmental aspects in business and economy. Research on LCA was and still is focused on improving the methodology. In fact, the "LCA technique" has significantly improved over the last few years. However, this research progress did nearly not stress the application context of LCA and its embodiment into business and industry. This is precisely the primary focus of the present book. Based on the empirical information of a large survey and of 20 company case studies, the book describes the set of applications and uses, as well as the dynamics of the adoption and integration patterns of LCA within business and industry.
  table of contents: eIntroduction: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Objectives and Scope; Outline -- Framework and Theoretical Background -- Application of LCA in General: Methods; General Application; Years; Commissioning Bodies; Business as Clients; Subjects; Conclusions -- A 'Static' Perspective on LCA Applications -- Survey Results: Method, Sample and Evaluation Procedure; Results; Conclusions -- The Dynamics of LCA Adoption and Integration in the Firm -- The Results of the Case Studies: Introduction; Summary Reports of Selected Case Studies; Overview on Application Patterns; Conclusions -- The Relationship Between Business and Policy: Expectations and Implications: Business View on Policy; Policy View on Business; Conclusions -- Conclusions and Recommendations: Summarising Results; Interesting Results; Recommendations.
  note: by Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Industrial engineering
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Business planning
  subject:
    topic: Business planning
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Industrial engineering
  subject:
    topic: Pollution
  classification: TD172-193.5
  classification: 363.737
  identifier: 9783662041277 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3662041278 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783642085741
  identifier: 3642085741
  identifier: 3662041278
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130101
    record change date: 20260420201053.4
    record identifier: in00003572735
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng