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Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics : Challenges and Opportunities.
Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics is a corporate-focused analysis that brings clarity and practicality to the complex issues of environmental metrics in industry. The book examines the metrics implications to businesses as their responsibilities expand beyond the factory gate -- upstream...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics is a corporate-focused analysis that brings clarity and practicality to the complex issues of environmental metrics in industry. The book examines the metrics implications to businesses as their responsibilities expand beyond the factory gate -- upstream to suppliers and downstream to products and services. It examines implications that arise from greater demand for comparability of metrics among businesses by the investment community and environmental interest groups. The controversy over what sustainable development means for businesses is also addressed. Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics identifies the most useful metrics based on case studies from four industries -- automotive, chemical, electronics, and pulp and paper -- and includes specific corporate examples. It contains goals and recommendations for public and private sector players interested in encouraging broader use of metrics to improve industrial environmental performance and those interested in addressing the tough issues of prioritization, weighting of metrics for meaningful comparability, and the longer term metrics needs presented by sustainable development. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780309525220 0309525225 9780309062428 030906242X |