Title :
The greening of industry - a term of the past or for the future?
Author_Institution :
Chair of Ind. Sustainability, Brandenburg Univ. of Technol., Cottbus, Germany
Abstract :
About ten yours after the surfacing of the term, it is time to review the development of the so-called greening of industry. Some fundamental trends are outlined and explained by a set of typical examples provided by the ambitious efforts of enterprises towards preserving and enhancing their competitiveness in a global economy. After the discussion of current mainstreams, some requirements for achieving the goal of sustainability are derived
Keywords :
design for environment; economics; personnel; product development; recycling; competitiveness; enterprises; global economy; greening of industry; sustainability; sustainable future; Environmental factors; Environmental management; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Force measurement; Gain measurement; Government; Industrial pollution; Pollution measurement; Research initiatives; Resource management;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1266-6
DOI :
10.1109/.2001.992492
