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Sustainability Constraints as System Boundaries: Introductory Steps Toward Stategic Life-Cycle Management
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2008 (English)In: Web-based green products life-cycle management systems: reverse supply-chain utilization / [ed] Wang, Hsiao-Fan, Hershey, USA: IGI Global: Information Science Reference , 2008Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Sustainable management of materials and products requires continuous evaluation of numerous complex social, ecological, and economic factors. Many tools and methods are emerging to support this. One of the most rigorous is life-cycle assessment (LCA). But LCAs often lack a sustainability perspective and bring about difficult trade-offs between specificity and depth, on the one hand, and comprehension and applicability, on the other. This article applies a framework for strategic sustainable development to foster a new general approach to the management of materials and products, here termed “strategic life-cycle management.” This includes informing the overall analysis with aspects that are relevant to a basic perspective on (1) sustainability, and (2) strategy to arrive at sustainability. Early experiences indicate that the resulting overview could help avoiding costly assessments of flows and practices that are not critical from a sustainability and/or strategic perspective and help identifying strategic knowledge gaps that need further assessment.

Abstract [sv]

Hållbar hantering av material och produkter kräver kontinuerlig utvärdering av komplexa sociala, ekologiska och ekonomiska faktorer. Livscykelananlys är ett av de mest rigorösa verktyg som har kommit fram för att hantera detta. Dock saknar ofta livscykelanalyser ett hållbarhetsperspektiv och ger upphov till svåra avvägningar mellan analysdjup och praktisk tillämpbarhet. Denna artikel tillämpar ett ramverk för strategisk hållbar utveckling för att ta fram "strategiskt livscykelarbete" ett nytt angreppssätt för hantering av meterials och produkter. Detta innefattar att tillföra analysen relevanta perspekktiv på (1) hållbarhet och (2) strategier för att nå hållbarhet. Tidiga erfarenheter tyder på att det nya angreppsäsättet ger en överblick som gör att man undvika dyra utvärderingar av flöden och arbetssätt som inte är kritiska från ett hållbarhetsperspektiv. Man kan också lättare identifiera strategiska kunskapsluckor som behöver utredas vidare. kan minstrategier för att nå

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hershey, USA: IGI Global: Information Science Reference , 2008.
Keywords [en]
strategic planning, backcasting, life-cycle assessment (LCA), materials management, The Natural Step (TNS), strategic life-cycle management, sustainable product development, sustainable development, environmental management
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Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Applied Mechanics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-8270Local ID: oai:bth.se:forskinfo0EB16B3AEE9E9D3CC1257524004A00CFISBN: 9781605661155 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-8270DiVA, id: diva2:835976
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This is a chapter in a book published by IGI Global (see below)

Available from: 2012-09-18 Created: 2008-12-19 Last updated: 2020-10-07Bibliographically approved

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