Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing

Manufacturers, under pressure from their major stakeholders, integrate environmental issues in the design and management of their products. These stakeholders include customers, regulators, employees, communities, and interest groups who have a common stake in protecting the earth from pollution and in limiting the exploitation of earth's limited natural resources. Manufacturers recognize that being environmentally responsible also offers competitive advantage to the firm. The Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing is written as a state-of-the-art reference to guide environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM). All the contributors have done extensive research and/or practice work in the field of ECM.

The Handbook covers all the major topics in Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing. There are specific chapters to deal with sustainable manufacturing, recycling, eco-labelling, life cycle assessment, and ISO 14000 series of standards, as well as decision-making aspects of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing. Decision-oriented topics on supply chain, decision models, quality initiative, environmental costing and decision support systems are also covered. The influence of ECM on marketing imperative is also covered.

Auteur

Christian N. Madu is Professor of Management Science at Pace University, New York and Professor of Environmental Management & Control at the University of Nigeria. Prof. Madu's recent book is the Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, World Scientific Press. He is the author of more than 120 scholarly articles in leading journals and 17 academic books. He holds more than 8200 citations of his work. Professor Madu is on the editorial board of more than thirty academic journals.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Sustainable manufacturing.- Chapter 2. Concepts and methodologies to help promote industrial ecology.- Chapter 3. Systems design and innovations in circular economy.- Chapter 4. Communicating product recovery activities.- Chapter 4. Green design and quality initiatives.- Chapter 6. Corporate and social responsibility.- Chapter 7. Accounting for an environmentally conscious setting.- Chapter 8. The development of eco-labelling schemes.- Chapter 9. Green Advertising.- Chapter 10. Petroleum production activities and depletion of biodiversity.- Chapter 11. Recycling as Universal Resource Policy.- Chapter 12. A Systematic Framework for Environmentally Conscious Design.- Chapter 13. Environmental Attributes of Manufacturing Processes.- Chapter 14. Environmental decision support systems.- Chapter 15. Decision models for reverse production system design.- Environmentally sound supply chain management.- Chapter 16. Environmentally sound supply chain management.- Chapter 17. Climate Change: Opportunities and Risks for the Manufacturing sector.- Chapter 18. Life cycle assessment.- Chapter 19. Multi-pathway and cumulative risk-assessment.- Chapter 20. Reclamation and recycling of municipal waste.- Chapter 21. Environmental Marketing.- Chapter 22. Challenging the future.