Towards sustainable product development

On Sustainable Product Development

Many tools and concepts in the field of Industrial Ecology are developed in this context, e.g., Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA), streamlined LCA, Design for Environment (DfE), ecological footprint, factor x, environmental space as well as the environmental management systems ISO 14001, EMAS and BS 7750 (Vellinga et al. (1997) give a good overview of different tools). These methods do not necessaril...

Community-Based disaster risk Management towards Sustainable Development

Background and Purpose:With the rise of natural disasters, different societies have continually sought to discover solutions to control or minimize the damage caused by unexpected events and to actually manage disasters. In the past few decades, the need for social participation to reduce disasters has increased. The community-based disaster  risk management framework is growing. Therefore, thi...

Technological Progress Towards Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development through By-Product Synergy

Phase I of the Gulf Coast By-Product Synergy (BPS) project, sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and the U.S. Department of Energy and facilitated by the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development, is now complete. The concept behind ByProduct Synergy is also referred to as Industrial Ecosystem, Industrial Symbiosis, or “Industrial Ecology” (IE) system. The philosophy of the IE ap...

Empowerment for Sustainable Development : Towards Operational Strategies