Download or read book Economic Models of Material Product Chains for Environmental Policy Analysis written by P.P. Kandelaars and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical and empirical contribution to the quest for sustainability and environmental quality. The book examines the physical and economic aspects of flows of materials and products, as well as the policies and strategies designed to reduce the related resource depletion and environmental pollution. The `material-product chain' concept forms a general framework, defined as a system of linked flows of materials and products that support the provision of a certain service. Various economic models of material-product chains are studied, both theoretical and applied, such as static optimisation, dynamic simulation and general equilibrium models. Applications to metals, rain gutters and window frames are described. Audience: Readers in universities, research organizations and policy institutes interested in the environment, economics and government policy.

Download or read book Heavy Metals A Problem Solved written by E van der Voet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most publications on heavy metals and the environment have focused on environmental pathways and risks. The present book establishes a link between the environmental risks of heavy metals and the societal causes of the risks. Economic models, substance flow models and environmental fate and risk assessment models have been integrated into a single analytical framework that has been used to trace and understand the routes by which four heavy metals enter the economy, through to their final destination in the environment. The long-term impacts of the current metals management regime in the Netherlands have been used as a case study by which to assess the effectiveness of certain policy measures. Readership: Environmental scientists, especially those practising in the areas of ecological economics, industrial ecology, materials flow accounting and integrated environmental assessment. Environmental policy makers will also find the book an invaluable aid in their deliberations.

Download or read book Economics of Industrial Ecology written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies that integrate scientific, technological, and economic dimensions of industrial ecology and material flows. The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with a rigorous economic approach and by doing so contribute to the advancement of this emerging field. Using a variety of modeling techniques (including econometric, partial and general equilibrium, and input-output models) and applying them to a wide range of materials, economic sectors, and countries, these studies analyze the driving forces behind material flows and structural changes in order to offer guidance for economically and socially feasible policy solutions. After a survey of concepts and relevant research that provides a useful background for the chapters that follow, the book presents historical analyses of structural change from statistical and decomposition approaches; a range of models that predict structural change on the national and regional scale under different policy scenarios; two models that can be used to analyze waste management and recycling operations; and, adopting the perspective of local scale, an analysis of the dynamics of eco-industrial parks in Denmark and the Netherlands. The book concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of an economic approach to industrial ecology.

Download or read book Recycling International Trade and the Environment written by P.J. van Beukering and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last century international trade has become indispensable for many economies. This is not only the case for trade in primary raw materials and consumer products but also for secondary (recyclable) materials. With the rapid growth of the recycling sector worldwide, trade in recyclables increased tremendously. It is striking that most of this trade flows from developed to developing countries. This book addresses the main causes of this typical trade pattern and investigates its economic and environmental effects by carrying out case studies on waste paper imports in India, waste plastics imports in China, and used-tyre trade in Europe. The book concludes by recommending policies that are aimed at preventing negative economic and environmental effects potentially resulting from trade in recyclables. The book offers new ideas to researchers who are involved in international trade, material flows, and waste management, and provides new insights for decision-makers who are interested in WTO and the Basel Convention.

Download or read book Modelling the Costs of Environmental Policy written by Rob B. Dellink and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Extending economic models to include environmental emissions and environmental policy is now commonplace. Yet, the linking is often ad hoc and based on peculiar assumptions. In this book, Rob Dellink shows how emissions and emission reduction policies for five different environmental issues can be included in a forward-looking computable general equilibrium model, building emissions into production and consumption functions. At the technical level the book is superb and stands out for its exact specification of how this is done.' - Richard S.J. Tol, Hamburg University, Germany, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Carnegie Mellon University, US This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirect costs of environmental policy for multiple pollutants be properly assessed in an applied model?

Download or read book Circular Economy and the Law written by Feja Lesniewska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system. Amid increasing demand for virgin raw materials, and unsustainable consumption and waste disposal that are driving the global ecological and climate crisis, there are growing calls to urgently transition to circular economies. Despite an increasing number of circular approaches being adopted, implemented, and integrated in national and local laws and policies, the number of commercially successful business stories remains isolated. Moreover, questions about whether circular economy laws and policies are delivering fair and just global outcomes need to be addressed. This book examines this significant knowledge gap to understand legal experiences, including justice and equity issues in the global context, so that these can inform wider design and implementation. The book begins by explaining the concept of a circular economy and its context within wider issues of sustainable development and justice. The first part of the book then examines the legal context of the circular economy by analysing legal forms in practice and those recommended in wider scholarship before considering how these could impact on existing inequity and injustices globally. The second part delivers an empirical understanding of the implications of the law on circular economy approaches and the global equity and justice dimensions through two case studies on solid waste management and forestry. The final part addresses legal opportunities and challenges for wider implementation of circular economy approaches that incorporate justice into its framing. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental and natural resource law and policy, circular economy, industrial ecology, natural resource management, and sustainable development more broadly.

Download or read book Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics written by Jeroen C. J. M. Van den Bergh and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference book comprises specially commissioned surveys in environmental and resource economics written by an international team of experts. Authoritative yet accessible, each entry provides a state-of-the-art summary of key areas that will be invaluable to researchers, practitioners and advanced students.

Download or read book Sustainable Supply Chain Management written by Balkan Cetinkaya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially. This book is not about a wish list of impractical choices, but the reality of decisions faced by all those involved in supply chain management today. Our definition of sustainable supply chains is not restricted to so-called "green" supply chains, but recognises that in order to be truly sustainable, supply chains must operate within a realistic financial structure, as well as contribute value to our society. Supply chains are not sustainable unless they are realistically funded and valued. Thus, a real definition of sustainable supply chain management must take account of all relevant economic, social and environmental issues. This book contains examples from a wide range of real-life case studies, and synthesizes the learnings from these many different situations to provide the fundamental building blocks at the centre of successful logistics and supply chain management.

Download or read book International Journal of Sustainable Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainable Supply Chains written by Tonya Boone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sustainable enterprise is one that contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously delivering economic, social and environmental benefits or what has been termed "the triple bottom line." While pursuing profit, socially responsible companies should be sensitive to the environment and uphold the rights of all the firm's stakeholders. This edited volume explores leading-edge ideas — both by academics and forward-thinking companies — to (re)design and market products, source, manufacture, and eventually distribute and recover or dispose of them in an environmentally, ecologically, and socially responsible way. This edited volume is made up of fifteen chapters loosely grouped into clusters. After an introduction, chapter 2 shows the greenhouse emissions at various levels, from countries all the way to individual products. Chapters 3-7 each focus on an industrial sector and address issues specific to that industry, with chapter 7 presenting a case study on LEED certification of Miller Hall, home of the Mason School of Business where two of the authors (Tonya and Ram) work. Chapters 8-10 address product take back in the supply chain. Chapter 8 introduces e-waste and surveys what firms are doing to combat it. Chapter 9 provides an overview of existing take-back legislation and academic papers that have studied various research questions associated with them. Chapter 10 is a tutorial that addresses the problem of product disposition on a closed-loop supply chain: what should a firm do with a product return? Chapters 11-15 address measurement, monitoring, decision-making, and reporting regarding environmental issues in a firm. Chapter 11 provides an academic survey of eco-labeling and the consumer’s willingness to pay for them. Chapter 12 discusses how firms can measure the total carbon footprint in their supply chains and some of the strategies they can use to mitigate carbon emissions. Using the price of call options, chapter 13 illustrates how managers can quantify the savings attributed to sustainability-related investment. Chapter 14 develops a non-linear optimization model that addresses the complex trade-offs involved in making joint operational and environmental decisions. Finally, chapter 15 develops a Data Envelopment Analysis-based method for supplier evaluation incorporating environmental and business factors.

Download or read book Life Science Dimensions written by Sarah Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quantified Eco Efficiency written by Gjalt Huppes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central asset of eco-efficiency analysis is that it does not depend on a specific evaluation of environmental impacts against economic effects. Several evaluation methods may be used, including those based on willingness-to-pay, panel procedures, and public statements on policy goals. This volume covers all aspects of eco-efficiency analysis and offers a global perspective on the subject.

Download or read book Resources Environment and Economics written by R. U. Ayres and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1978-03-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics and the environment; Dynamic optiizing models of resources and the environment; Application of physical principles to economics; Materials/energy accounting and forecasting models; Optimizing materials/energy process models.

Download or read book Sustainable Consumption and Production Volume II written by Ranjula Bali Swain and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today’s linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II: Circular Economy and Beyond aims to explore the sustainable consumption and production transition to a circular economy, while addressing critical global challenges by innovating and transforming product and service markets towards sustainable development. This book explores how consumers, private sector, relevant international organizations, and governments can play an active role in innovating businesses to help companies, individuals (consumers and citizens), organizations, and sectors, to remain competitive, while transitioning towards sustainable markets and economies. It is of interest to economists, students, businesses, and policymakers.

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Download or read book An Environmental and Economic Trade off Analysis of Manufacturing Process Chains to Inform Decision Making for Sustainability written by Stefanie Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing costs, consumer awareness, and environmental legislation have driven industry to reduce its resource consumption and the impact from that consumption. So, both traditional economic objectives (e.g., cost, time, and quality) and environmental objectives (e.g., CO2 emissions) have become strategically relevant for the manufacturing sector. For many manufacturing companies, production systems have a major influence on the environmental footprint of a product and therefore represent a major opportunity to minimize the company's overall environmental impact. Currently within industry, there is not an accurate, effective, or widely accepted method to assess the resource consumption of process chains used to manufacture a product. As a result, this information is often not considered when making decisions about what processes to use. A considerable part of the energy and resource demand in manufacturing is determined during production planning. An important component of this planning is determining the process chains to be used. Process chains are a combined sequence of specifically arranged, single processes used to manufacture a product. As manufacturing processes are very resource intensive, it is now necessary to assess the resource consumption as well as the economics of these process chains. Because of this, additional information must be considered when selecting the process chains used to manufacture a product. Many life cycle assessment (LCA) tools focus on the materials and final disposition of a product, but do not include detailed information or data on the manufacturing required to fabricate the product. Sustainability impacts of discrete manufacturing processes and product value streams are needed to develop more complete LCAs. The development of a methodology and user tool to quantify sustainability impacts, leading to the identification of gaps and opportunities, is essential to facilitate decision making to support sustainability in manufacturing facilities. To address these issues, this dissertation proposes an approach to evaluate and quantify the resource use in addition to the environmental and economic impacts associated with discrete manufacturing processes as part of a complex process chain. A methodology to evaluate multiple process chain configurations will be presented. First, a database of industrial assessment metrics was compiled. This database allows users to sort and select from a list of key metrics in order to choose the metrics that are relevant for the performance that they want to measure. Next, an industrial assessment methodology was developed. This methodology gives users an overview of the key areas to address when conducting an industrial assessment. This methodology, which was applied to three case studies, can be used in combination with the key metrics. In the second part of the dissertation, a resource consumption assessment and mapping methodology for complex manufacturing process chains was developed. This systematic methodology was developed to identify and quantify the resource consumption (energy, water, materials) for discrete manufacturing processes. The processes mapped include: welding (manual and robotic), cutting (plasma arc and laser), rework (air carbon arc cutting and hand grinding), and machining (milling). Next, a model consisting of database modules for each process was developed. This model quantifies the sustainability impacts (energy, water, and material consumption, waste generation, emissions, and resource consumption cost) of manufacturing process chains. The model was validated using a case study with Caterpillar Inc. for a process chain including welding, plasma arc cutting, laser cutting, and milling. Next, a process chain assessment tool was created. This tool enables manufacturers to assess the resource consumption and associated impacts of multiple fabrication process chain configurations. This enables a more comprehensive assessment compared to other software tools. Finally, a methodology modeled after the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) process was presented to show how to translate the results from the model and tool to an Environmental Value Stream Map and to translate those results into improvements in manufacturing systems. This methodology was validated on a machining operation in a Caterpillar facility. This research has developed and evaluated an effective approach for the analysis of energy, water, and other resource use in multiple processes in a manufacturing process chain. This allows manufacturers to better understand the resource consumption and environmental and economic impacts of fabrication process chains used to make a product. This dissertation helps to provide the technical understanding and tools to enable designers and manufacturing engineers to create manufacturing systems that are truly more sustainable. The implementation of this work can be directly applied to assessing and optimizing manufacturing process chains and the work presented in this dissertation directly contributes to the realization of a sustainable and prosperous manufacturing sector.

Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: