The Future of Eco-labelling: Making Environmental Product Information Systems Effective - Couverture rigide

Rubik, Frieder; Frankl, Paolo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 187471987X ISBN 13 : 9781874719878

Editeur : Greenleaf Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

This book plots a course for policy-makers to address some of the historic problems with eco-labelling, to learn what works and what doesn't and to move forward with integrated schemes that can make a real difference to sustainable production and consumption.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Frieder Rubik studied national economics at the University of Heidelberg. He has worked for a number of environmental economics research institutes since 1982. He is currently senior researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and head of the Ecological Product Policy department. His key publications deal with product information schemes/eco-labelling, integrated product policy and life-cycle assessment (LCA); these include: Integrierte Produktpolitik (Metropolis), LCA in Business and Industry: Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications (with Paolo Frankl; Springer, 1999) and Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives (with F. Oosterhuis and G. Scholl (Kluwer, 1996). Dr Paolo Frankl is Assistant Professor of Technology of Materials within the Programme of Industrial Design at the University of Rome 1, "La Sapienza", and is scientific head of Ecobilancio Italia, a private research and consulting company based in Rome. His background is that of a semiconductor physicist with a PhD in Energy and Environmental Technologies from the University of Rome. His main research areas are the methodology of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and its application in industry and business, the applicability of LCA for eco-efficiency and integrated product policy, and renewable energy. He is author of several publications at national and international level, including LCA in Business and Industry: Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications (with Frieder Rubik; Springer, 1999) and "LCA as a Management Tool" (in Handbook of Industrial Ecology, ed. R.U. Ayres and L. Ayres; Edward Elgar, 2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Greenleaf Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 187471987X
• ISBN 13: 9781874719878
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 357
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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