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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Eco-efficiency"”.
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Design support for eco-efficiency improvements in manufacturing
Eco-efficiency improvements in manufacturing is a controversial subject for researchers, practitioners as well as policy makers. The widely accepted definition of "doing more with less" is not accurate enough to guide the design of improvements that can deliver products in a sustainable way. The …
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Developing minerals beneficiation flowsheets for eco-efficiency : a systems approach
Eco-efficiency has been proposed by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a performance indicator framework that contributes to sustainability by assisting corporate decision makers improve the environmental performance of their operations and processes, while also extracting …
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The interplay between business model innovation and eco- efficiency for manufacturing enterprises
The concept of eco-efficiency can be a useful concept to link an enterprise’s business with sustainable development as well as achieving long-term profits (Schaltegger and Sturm, 1990; Madden et al., 2006). The business model has the potential to create value and capture value for companies, which …
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Sustainable Manufacturing - A study of the business context and eco-efficiency practices in Chinese microelectronics firms
… sustainable design standards in China and make recommendations for a sustainable plan for the microelectronic industry based on research. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used in this research. This research is based on a field survey in Beijing, Tianjin and Dongguan City of …
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The development of a controllability Index based on RGA and Exergy for plantwide control problems
… is constrained by control and thermodynamics (eco-efficiency), for efficient and easily controllable process design, an integrated approach involving process design, control and thermodynamics (eco-efficiency) must be used during early design stages. An integrated approach has many advantages …
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Environmental Sustainability: A Three Part Essay of The Value Relevance of Cost Management
… environmental performance by the county. The second chapter, eco-efficiency and its outcome are examined at the county level as an approach to measuring the competitiveness of fiscal policy (input) in improving environmental performance (output) and its impact on the overall financial condition …
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Application of bulk nanobubbles in ultrafiltration and spray drying of dairy concentrates
… dairy industry. Moreover, the dairy industry's eco-efficiency strategy focuses on manufacturing high-quality dairy products at a low cost with minimal environmental impact are gaining more attention. For instance, reduced energy usage while keeping high permeation flux values is critical for …
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Operational sustainability metrics : a case of electronics recycling
… system performance. Existing evaluations of eco-efficiency or sustainability are either too aggregated to guide operational decisions or too complex and data intensive to be performed in the context of a low-margin system. A range of performance metrics were developed and assessed for several …
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INVESTIGATING THE DETERMINANTS AND ENDOGENOUS INFLUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL REPUTATION
… the resource-based view of firm, the Porter’s eco-efficiency perspective, the social identity theory, and the third-person effect theory. A sample of 271 companies was drawn from the 500 largest U.S. public companies listed in the 2010 Newsweek’s green report. The corporate environmental data …
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THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM; LOCAL VERSUS GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS IN VAL DI MERSE, ITALY
… lack appropriate measures for its economic, social, and environmental success. "Sustainable tourism" implies a finite limit to tourism growth beyond which point it is no longer sustainable, yet to date, benchmark environmental indicators have not been developed to define a …
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Environmental Impact of Pasture-Based Milk Production in Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems
… systems, particularly dairy farming, has become central to discussions on climate change and sustainability, especially in regions with high agricultural activity and policy-driven climate targets. This dissertation investigated the environmental effects of pasture-based milk production …
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Measuring supply chain carbon efficiency : a carbon label framework
In the near term, efficiency improvements represent a key option for reducing the impacts of climate change. The growing awareness of climate change has increased the attention regarding the carbon emissions "embedded" in the products we consume. This increased attention creates a need to measure …
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Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Road Pavements: Carbon Footprinting and Multi-attribute Analysis
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a significant part of strategic asset management worldwide. Road agencies are providing guidelines to assess the relative sustainability of road projects. Unfortunately, environmental features of a road project are still considered as stand-alone evaluations, …
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Carbon intensive but decarbonising quickly? Retrospective and prospective life cycle assessments of South African pome fruit
The South African economy has in the past been categorised as carbon intensive due to an energy and capital intensive development path and an associated set of economic activities termed the minerals-energy complex. International export markets, specifically the European Union (EU), are …
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Using chemical catalysis to select and diversify biological-derived intermediates
… multiple reactions to produce novel chemicals. Secondly, comparing overall process efficiency in different routes to determine the most reasonable intermediate. Finally, determined critical issues for reactions between high potential molecules. In the first chapter, strategies for producing fuels …
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Investigation on the Overall Performance of Recycled Concrete Affected by Alkali-Silica Reaction
… is mounting in the concrete industry to adopt eco-efficient methods to reduce CO₂ emissions. Portland cement (PC), an essential concrete ingredient, is responsible for over two-thirds of the embodied energy of the concrete, generating about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Extraction and …
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BIO-INSPIRED DESIGN METHODOLOGY BASED ON A SEMANTIC MAP, USEABLE IN CAD ENVIRONMENT
… inspiration from biological systems, to maximize efficiency, and from technical systems, to use innovative principles. One aim is to overcome psychological inertia, intended as an indisposition to change inscribed in the human brain. This might be achieved by abstracting the area of solutions, …
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A triple bottom line evaluation of the impact of special events: the development of indicators
… development agenda is underpinned by the recognition that there are limits to the capacity of the earth to cope with unimpeded economic growth. Businesses, due to their power and reach, are seen as major users of natural, human and financial capital resources. Granted a societal licence to …