Web-based Green Products Life Cycle Management Systems: Reverse Supply Chain Utilization

✍ Scribed by Hsiao-fan Wang

• Publisher: Information Science Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Despite being a relatively new field of research and development, green management has drawn much attention from researchers and practitioners. Facing critical impacts to its environment, a strategic change to integrate supply chain management on green products needs a solid base for decision making.

Web-Based Green Products Life Cycle Management Systems: Reverse Supply Chain Utilization provides a comprehensive review of current and potential research in green management and control. A unique collection in the growing field of green products, this book is a must-have for new and experienced researchers, as well as practitioners and academicians alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgment......Page 23
Life Cycle Design, Planning, and Assessment......Page 26
Industrial Metabolism: Materials and Energy Flow Studies......Page 41
Sustainability Constraints as System Boundaries: Introductory Steps Toward Strategic Life-Cycle Management......Page 76
Environmental Criteria in a MCDM Context......Page 99
Sustainable Electronic Product Design: A Comparison of Environmental Performance Assessment Tools Derived from Life Cycle Thinking......Page 118
From Cleaner Production to Greening the Local Economy: A Case Study of Two European Programs Enhancing SMEs Competitiveness Through Environmental Approaches......Page 154
Does Trust Foster Sustainability? Results from a Management Simulation Game......Page 174
Identifying and Clustering of Target Customers of Green Products......Page 207
Application of Fuzzy Analytic Network Process and Fuzzy TOPSIS to the Undesirable Location Selection Problem......Page 233
Sustainable Product Service Systems: Potential to Deliver Business and Social Benefits with Less Resource Use......Page 257
Strategic Decisions for Green Electricity Marketing: Learning from Past Experiences......Page 275
Modeling of Green Supply Chain Logistics......Page 293
Reverse Supply Chain Design: A Neural Network Approach......Page 308
System Dynamics Modeling for Strategic Management of Green Supply Chain......Page 326
A Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Model for a Distribution Center......Page 359
A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach for Household Appliances and Automobile Recycling......Page 392
Green Product Retrieval and Recommendations System......Page 404
Applying Web-Based Collaborative Decision-Making in Reverse Logistics: The Case of Mobile Phones......Page 426