ECODESIGN Pilot: Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development with CD-ROM: 3 (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, 3) - Hardcover

Wimmer, Wolfgang; Züst, Rainer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402009658 ISBN 13: 9781402009655

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions. This kind of environmental policy -- a clearly reactive approach – has shown a mounting array of limitations. There is a clear need to seek new solutions, in particular those involving the initiative of firms themselves. Since the mid-1980’s, a new approach called “environmental management” has been established in research and practical applications; it is designed to systematically integrate environmental considerations into company activities. If, for instance, environmental objectives are being formulated for an enterprise, it is imperative to identify, highlight, and analyze real and significant environmental impacts of the firm's activities and to take appropriate measures to improve its performance. Controlling and implementing these environmental objectives requires suitable structures, procedures, and tools. Many motivated companies have approached the issue of environmental management through incorporating methods such “continual improvement processes” and “Life Cycle Assessment” into the various operational activities of the enterprise. Some firms initiated such transformation processes at their own production sites because it was easier to identify their own environmental impacts than to analyze, let alone mitigate, the effects of upstream and downstream processes. However, in many cases these processes are decisive factors in the overall environmental performance of a product. It has become clear that product design can influence these processes to a great extent.

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Review

From the reviews:

"Ecodesign PILOT complements the software that accompanies the book ??? . It aims to help product planners, engineers, and designers to develop products with higher ecological quality and integrate eco-design in the product development process. Its narrative style makes what would otherwise be tedious into an accessible text that augments the illustrative software." (Philip White, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)

From the reviews:

"Ecodesign PILOT complements the software that accompanies the book a ] . It aims to help product planners, engineers, and designers to develop products with higher ecological quality and integrate eco-design in the product development process. Its narrative style makes what would otherwise be tedious into an accessible text that augments the illustrative software." (Philip White, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)

Synopsis

What is the PILOT? The PILOT is a tool that enables you to find measures to environmentally improve your product within a short time. The instructions given are formulated in the language of product design and can be implemented directly in product development. When to apply the PILOT? It can be applied always when you are aiming at ECODESIGN solutions to environmentally improve products. For whom was the PILOT developed? It was developed for engineers in product development or R+D, for designers, for environmental experts, for consultants and for students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402009658
• ISBN 13: 9781402009655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 109