Sustainability appraisal
Subtitle: quantitative methods and mathematical techniques for environmental performance evaluation
By: Marina G Erechtchoukova, Peter A Khaiter, Paulina Golinska, editors
Contributors: Golińska, Paulina
Series: EcoProduction; EcoProduction
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9783642320804
Subjects: Sustainable development; Mathematical models; Sustainable development reporting; Umweltbezogenes Management; Leistungsmessung; Nachhaltigkeit
Other titles: Quantitative methods and mathematical techniques for environmental performance evaluation
Description: "One of the most important issues in developing sustainable management strategies and incorporating ecodesigns in production, manufacturing and operations management is the assessment of the sustainability of business operations and organizations' overall environmental performance. The book presents the results of recent studies on sustainability assessment. It provides a solid reference for researchers in academia and industrial practitioners on the state-of-the-art in sustainability appraisal including the development and application of sustainability indices, quantitative methods, models and frameworks for the evaluation of current and future welfare outcomes, recommendations on data collection and processing for the evaluation of organizations' environmental performance, and eco-efficiency approaches leading to business process re-engineering."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The FEEM sustainability index: an integrated tool for sustainability assessment  -- Carlo Carraro [and others]; title: Measuring and evaluating business sustainability: development and application of corporate index of sustainability performance  -- Frank Medel-González [and others]; title: Sustainability indicators: development and application for the agriculture sector  -- Jiří Hřebíček [and others]; title: Crosslinking eco-innovation in service and manufacturing industries and knowledge and operational industry orientation  -- María-del-Val Segarra-Oña [and others]; title: Trends in ESG practices: differences and similarities across major developed markets  -- Angel Peiró-Signes, María-del-Val Segarra-Oña; title: The role of maintenance in reducing the negative impact of a business on the environment  -- Małgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek, Przemysław Drożyner; title: Assessment of Bangkok metro accessibility for developing integrated strategies using sustainable indicators  -- Duangporn Prasertsubpakij, Vilas Nitivattananon; title: How district energy systems can be used to reduce infrastructure costs and environmental burdens  -- Terri Chu, Sandra Yee; title: Environmental issues in vehicle routing problems  -- Ignacio Eguia [and others]; title: Assessment of criticality of spare parts using the method of multi-criteria decision making -- Karolina Kolinska, Dawid Dolinski.