Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Historical development and basic ideas -- Chapter 2 Economic-ecological concepts -- Chapter 3 Business and sustainability -- Chapter 4 Life cycle assessment (LCA) -- Chapter 5 Environmental footprints and their calculation -- Chapter 6 Eco-design -- Chapter 7 Life cycle assessment of an organisation -- Chapter 8 Energy and material strategy -- Chapter 9 Stakeholder and their contributions -- Chapter 10 Audits -- Chapter 11 Information and transparency -- Chapter 12 Instead of a conclusion -- a perspective? -- Annex -- Annex 1 -- Sources
Annex 2 -- Glossary -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Biography -- Index
Summary
Sustainable production presented from an overarching perspective. The book provides information on the identification and assessment of footprints, concepts of sustainability practice in manufacturing companies, stakeholder management and communication. For the reader practical examples permit the analysis of the current situation and emerging developments. the current technical status of footprint analysis according to the Green House Gas Protocol is displayed. case studies with a focus on the manufacturing industry are discussed
