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Browsing Research Articles (Sustainable Life Cycle Management) by Title
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(Juta, 2009-06)Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects have additional technical, financial and regulatory requirements that are not fully addressed by classic project management approaches. Research has been done on individual novel ...
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2008-02)Industrial ecology seeks to apply the knowledge of systems in nature to the design and operation of industrial activities, to achieve integrated and sustainable relationships between the natural world and industry. Although ...
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(Elsevier, 2006)The South African economy is strongly based on coal as a mined resource, and various grades of coal are supplied to local and international customers. However, the environmental impacts associated with the preparation and ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-11)Environmental degradation is a burgeoning problem owing to the continual expansion of industrial production, and high-levels of energy and material consumption associated with economic growth. Cleaner Production (CP) is a ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-08)This paper focuses on the application of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique in the context of sustainable development to establish and optimise health care waste management (HCWM) systems in rural areas of ...
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(Elsevier, 2005)Business sustainability entails the incorporation of the objectives of sustainable development, namely social equity, economic efficiency and environmental performance, into a company's operational practices. Companies ...
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Asset life cycle management : towards improving physical asset performance in the process industry (Emerald, 2005)Purpose – Asset management is often one of the last options to maximise cost savings in a competitive global economy due to its intrinsic complexity, especially in many developing countries. Asset management in the process ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2012-05)Internationally, governments and lobby groups increasingly put pressure on organisations to reduce their impact on the environment. To this end, various studies show the drivers, barriers, and contributions of energy ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, 2010)In the past decade, the plea for corporate sustainability has gathered momentum and protecting the environment is one aspect for organizations to address if they are to conduct business in a sustainable manner. In this ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2009-11)The supply of sustainable energy is crucial for sustainable development in Africa. The aim of the study summarised in this paper is the identification, and prioritisation, of the factors that must be taken into account ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2007-11)Automobile Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) have implemented formal Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) globally that require the OEMs to consider the environmental performance and potential liabilities in the ...
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(Elsevier, 2005-05)Life cycle management (LCM) implies that the environmental impacts associated with suppliers must be incorporated in the decision-making framework of manufacturing facilities. In the developing country context, little ...
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(Juta, 2009)The carbon footprint of materials and products is becoming an increasingly important factor in international trade. At present the carbon emissions balance of the South African economy is not well understood, especially ...
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(Water Research Council, 2008-04)The water utility sector in South Africa is presently facing numerous challenges. Amongst the most urgent and important priorities is ageing infrastructure, which has the potential to end in failures with detrimental impacts ...
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(Energy Research Institute, University of Cape Town, 2011-11)The authors wish to thank the team members of the larger DST project that contributed to the development of the SETRM, and in particular those individuals that provided meaningful inputs to improve and finalise the ...
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(Journal of Contemporary Management, 2009)The paper investigates the potential of a stage/phase and gate process as a general approach to manage project risks. The use of stages/phases and gates as a project management approach is well established in literature ...
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(Elsevier, 2006)Responsible Life Cycle Management (LCM) of mines has received much attention in the South African legislation. However, there is currently a mis-alignment between the mining industry and the various government authorities ...
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(Elsevier, 2010-01)The investigation summarised in this paper applied a sustainability assessment methodology on a renewable energy technological system in a rural village project that was commissioned by the South African Department of ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2005-05)The principles of operational research (OR) and related mathematical methods have been applied to environmental issues for the past five decades. However, the increasing pressures experienced by industry over the last ...
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(Elsevier, 2011-04)Renewable energy technologies need to be implemented to improve the current lack of access to energy on the African continent. However, the implementation of renewable energy technologies in Africa often fails, or the ...
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