Industrial environmental performance metrics : challenges and opportunities / / Committee on Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics, National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/08
• Soggetto topico: Production management - Environmental aspects; Industrial ecology - United States - Measurement; Environmental policy - United States; Industries - Environmental aspects
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Why Study Environmental Metrics? -- 2 What Are Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics? -- 3 Guide to the Industry Studies -- 4 The Automotive Industry -- 5 The Chemical Industry -- 6 The Electronics Industry -- 7 The Pulp and Paper Industry -- 8 Summary of Metrics Used by the Four Industry Sectors -- 9 Observations, Trends, and Challenges -- 10 A Hypothetical Model for Improving Aggregation and Presentation of Environmental Performance Metrics -- 11 The Sustainable Enterprise Paradigm Shift -- 12 A Framework for Action -- APPENDIX A Current Reporting and Use of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Global Scale -- APPENDIX B Current Reporting of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics by U.S. Semiconductor Companies -- APPENDIX C Current Reporting and Use of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Company Scale1 -- Biographical Data -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Industrial environmental performance metrics
• ISBN: 0-309-17300-0; 1-282-08139-X; 9786612081392; 0-309-52522-5; 0-585-15934-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827497303321
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