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A state-of-the-art of industrial sustainability: definitions, tools and metrics
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In this article, the authors reviewed and synthesised literature on sustainability from an operational point of view with the objective to help companies to answer three main questions: What is sustainability? (How it has been defined), How can sustainability of processes and products be achieved and measured? (What are the different existing means and indicators) and How can they be improved?Abstract:
At present, a wide range of stakeholders including consumers, regulators, shareholders and public bodies are demanding that companies address sustainability in a more comprehensive way. However, even if a company actually wishes to innovate its processes for improving the way to account for sustainability, it will face relevant difficulties to deal with different guidelines, tools and methods currently addressing the matter from various points of view. The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesise literature on sustainability from an operational point of view with the objective to help companies to answer to three main questions: What is sustainability? (How it has been defined), How can sustainability of processes and products be achieved and measured? (What are the different existing means and indicators) and How can they be improved? In such a context, this paper investigates and debates the role of technological development, as an enabling factor of sustainability within the companies.read more
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Sustainable manufacturing: trends and research challenges
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“Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” from science magazine (2004)
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Performance Measurement for Social Enterprises
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Sustainability criteria and sustainability compliance index for decision support in product development
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Industrial sustainability: challenges, perspectives, actions
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
TL;DR: McDonough and Braungart as discussed by the authors argue that the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place.
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Why Companies Go Green: A Model of Ecological Responsiveness
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