Citation
Sarkis, J. (2002), "Greener Manufacturing and Operations: From Design to Delivery and Back", Environmental Management and Health, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 223-224. https://doi.org/10.1108/emh.2002.13.2.223.1
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This book examines one core corporate function that has a profound and direct impact on corporate environmental performance: manufacturing and operations. This area has been of concern in recent years to researchers and practitioners in fields ranging from the social and natural sciences to management and technical engineering. The book reflects this diversity with global contributions on topics such as:
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design for the environment;
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total quality environmental management;
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green supply chains;
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reverse logistics;
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environmental management systems and standards;
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industrial ecology;
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closed‐loop manufacturing, life‐cycle management;
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pollution prevention (P2);
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environmental technologies; and
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energy efficiency.
The aim and scope of “Greener Manufacturing and Operations” is to capture state‐of‐the‐art and future practices in environmental manufacturing and operations practices and issues in one concise volume. The book is therefore a fluid mix of case studies, empirical research and applied theoretical works incorporating both conceptual ideas whose time will come to practical applications that managers and practitioners can apply immediately. Comprehensive in its coverage of the key issues, contributions range from a focus on the internal operations of a single function within an organisation to a consideration of industrial manufacturing practices at a macro‐economic level. A number of levels of decision‐making are also represented: from long‐term strategic issues such as supply chain design, to traditional short‐term operations decision‐making and planning issues such as production planning. Many of the principles developed and presented here can also be extended to the more general process management of service organisations.
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