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ECODESIGN Pilot

Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development with CD-ROM

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Authors:
  1. Wolfgang Wimmer

    1. Institute for Engineering Design, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Rainer Züst

    1. Alliance for Global Sustainability, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  • A tool, that enables you to find measures to environmentally improve your product within a short time
  • Aiming at ECODESIGN solutions to environmentally improve products

Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 3)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. It’s not as Simple as that...

    Pages 1-3

  3. Systematically Identifying Weak Points

    Pages 4-30

  4. Targeted Identification of Ecodesign Measures

    Pages 31-64

  5. Preparing Ecodesign for Product Development

    Pages 65-77

  6. Embedding Ecodesign in Environmental Management

    Pages 78-88

  7. Successful Initiation of Ecodesign Projects

    Pages 89-95

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 97-99
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Engineering Design, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Wimmer

  • Alliance for Global Sustainability, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Rainer Züst

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: ECODESIGN Pilot

  • Book Subtitle: Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development with CD-ROM

  • Authors: Wolfgang Wimmer, Rainer Züst

  • Series Title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48393-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0965-5Published: 31 January 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1090-3Published: 31 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48393-6Published: 30 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 1571-4780

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1699

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 99

  • Number of Illustrations: 431 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Environmental Management

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