Overview
- Highlights the importance of environmental performance and environmental management practices on market and financial results
- Up-to date review of problems considered among LCM specialists
- Presents unique information on LCM centers landscape in Poland
- Includes LCM examples from different European countries and regions
- This book is is open access, which means you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainable Products
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Sustainable Technologies
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Sustainable Organisations
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About this book
This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, analyze and manage product-related information and activities towards continuous improvement, along the different products life cycle. The selection of case studies presents LCM as a business management approach that can be used by all types of businesses and organizations in order to improve their sustainability performance. This book provides a cross-sectoral, current picture of LCM issues. The structure of the book is based on five-theme lines. The themes represent different objects that are focused on sustainability and LCM practices mainly related to: products, technologies, organizations,markets and policy issues as well as methodological solutions. The book brings together presentations from the world of science and the world of enterprises as well as institutions supporting economic development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Group for Ecobalancing and Quality.
Joanna Kałkowska
Professor at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Engineering Management.
Jędrzej Kasprzak
Assistant Professor at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Institute of Transport, Division of Universal Design and Mobility Means
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Prospects
Editors: Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos, Joanna Kalkowska, Jędrzej Kasprzak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77127-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77126-3Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77129-4Published: 26 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77127-0Published: 25 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 307
Number of Illustrations: 89 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Corporate Environmental Management, Environment, general, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology