DocumentCode
2376126
Title
The greening of industry - a term of the past or for the future?
Author
Ertel, Jürgen
Author_Institution
Chair of Ind. Sustainability, Brandenburg Univ. of Technol., Cottbus, Germany
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
916
Lastpage
920
Abstract
About ten yours after the surfacing of the term, it is time to review the development of the so-called greening of industry. Some fundamental trends are outlined and explained by a set of typical examples provided by the ambitious efforts of enterprises towards preserving and enhancing their competitiveness in a global economy. After the discussion of current mainstreams, some requirements for achieving the goal of sustainability are derived
Keywords
design for environment; economics; personnel; product development; recycling; competitiveness; enterprises; global economy; greening of industry; sustainability; sustainable future; Environmental factors; Environmental management; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Force measurement; Gain measurement; Government; Industrial pollution; Pollution measurement; Research initiatives; Resource management;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Tokyo
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1266-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/.2001.992492
Filename
992492
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