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Sustainability Constraints as System Boundaries: Introductory Steps Toward Strategic Life-Cycle Management
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Author(s): Henrik Ny (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden), Jamie P. MacDonald (Office of the Minister of the Environment, Ontario, Canada), Göran Broman (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)and Karl-Henrik Robèrt (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 23
Source title:
Web-Based Green Products Life Cycle Management Systems: Reverse Supply Chain Utilization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hsiao-Fan Wang (National Tsing Hua University, ROC)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-114-8.ch003
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Abstract
Sustainable management of materials and products requires continuous evaluation of numerous complex social, ecological, and economic factors. Many tools and methods are emerging to support this. One of the most rigorous is life-cycle assessment (LCA). But LCAs often lack a sustainability perspective and bring about difficult trade-offs between specificity and depth, on the one hand, and comprehension and applicability, on the other. This article applies a framework for strategic sustainable development to foster a new general approach to the management of materials and products, here termed “strategic life-cycle management.” This includes informing the overall analysis with aspects that are relevant to a basic perspective on (1) sustainability, and (2) strategy to arrive at sustainability. Early experiences indicate that the resulting overview could help avoiding costly assessments of flows and practices that are not critical from a sustainability or strategic perspective and help in identifying strategic knowledge gaps that need further assessment.
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