Overview
- Emphasizes the crucial aspects of implementation of the environmental conscious manufacturing practice to existing industrial systems
- Provides practical application of tools and methods for solving business practice problems
- Includes case studies which guide readers in areas outside of their expertise
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: EcoProduction (ECOPROD)
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About this book
Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient and productive use of raw materials and natural resources in order to minimize footprints on the natural environment. This book aims to provide the state- of- the- art as well as new ideas of the environmental conscious operations management. The contributors present in the individual chapters problems related to: eco-friendly production technologies; recycling and waste reduction. Scope of topics discussed in this book covers also pollution prevention, energy efficiency. The authors describe problems of information management in complex systems
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability and Life Cycle Management
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Sustainability and life cycle management
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Environmental Friendly Resource Management in Production
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Environmental friendly resource management in Production
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Information Systems and Information Management Supporting Sustainability
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Information systems and information management supporting sustainability
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: EcoProduction and Logistics
Book Subtitle: Emerging Trends and Business Practices
Editors: Paulina Golinska
Series Title: EcoProduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23553-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23552-8Published: 09 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43356-6Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23553-5Published: 12 August 2012
Series ISSN: 2193-4614
Series E-ISSN: 2193-4622
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 328
Topics: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Sustainable Development, Operations Management, Environmental Management