Sustainable solutions : developing products and services for the future

✍ Scribed by Charter, Martin; Tischner, Ursula

• Publisher: Greenleaf Pub.
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Series: Ingenieria de manufacturas (E-libro)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In response to toughening environmental legislation, national and supra-national environmental product policies and growing customer demands, this book provides both analysis and case studies on why and how companies are developing new products and services to fit "triple-bottom-line" expectations.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword / Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel --
Introduction / Martin Charter, Ursula Tischner --
Sustainable development: from catchwords to benchmarks and operational concepts / Joachim H. Spangenberg --
Rewiring global consumption: strategies for transformation / Nick Robins, Bas de Leeuw --
Sustainable solutions in less industrialised countries: the conditions and actors at state and company level for sustainable product design / Roland Lentz --
Towards sustainable business? / Peter James --
Integrated product policy and eco-product development / Martin Charter [and others] --
Sustainable product design / Ursula Tischner, Martin Charter --
Next industrial revolution / William McDonough and Michael Braungart --
Sustainability and services / Walter R. Stahel --
Measuring sustainability in ecodesign / Joseph Fiksel --
What sustainable solutions do small and medium-sized enterprises prefer? / Carolien G. van Hemel --
Sustainable product development: a strategy for developing countries / Diego Masera --
Managing ecodesign / Martin Charter --
Towards a model for product-oriented environmental management systems / Han Brezet, Cristina Rocha --
Tools for ecodesign and sustainable product design / Ursula Tischner --
Green marketing / Michael Jay Polonsky --
Maximising environmental quality through EcoReDesign / John Gertsakis --
Telework and the triple bottom line / Braden R. Allenby, Deanna Richards --
Unpredictable process of implementing eco-efficiency strategies / Jacqueline Cramer, Ab Stevels --
Environmental technologies and their business drivers / Andrew Baynes, Christian Ridder and Lutz-Günther Scheidt --
'Awareness': sustainability by industrial design / Philip Thompson, Chris Sherwin --
Sustainable product design and resource management at the Kambium Furniture Workshop / Holger Rohn, Angelika von Proff-Kesseler --
Manufactum: sustainability as an elementary part of the marketing concept / Uli Burchardt --
Hess Natur: acting for the world of tomorrow: resource management in the textile chain / Katharina Paulitsch --
Development of Climatex Lifecycle: a compostable, environmentally sound upholstery fabric / Albin Kälin --
Slow consumption for sustainable jobs: the example of hand-crafted shoes / Christine Ax --
Micro enterprises, lay design and sustainable innovation / Luiz E.C. Guimarães, Fred Steward --
Carving in Kenya / Diego Masera.