Title :
International Green Purchasing: A Strategy for Sustainable Development
Author :
Sundstrom, Steven
Author_Institution :
Kyoto Univ.
Abstract :
Environmentally enhanced purchasing contracts are vital to change consumption and production patterns. International cooperation on green purchasing, as an important tool to reach sustainable development goals, aims to disseminate information to developing countries. Countries such as Japan, where a large membership and continuous activity over a ten-year period has brought relative success in this area, lead the effort
Keywords :
contracts; environmental factors; purchasing; socio-economic effects; sustainable development; Japan; developing countries; international green purchasing; production pattern; purchasing contract; sustainable development; Contracts; Guidelines; Hazardous materials; Military standards; Procurement; Product design; Production; Supply chains; Sustainable development; Waste materials; content of design; environmental contract management; global supply chain; international green purchasing;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0081-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619284
