• Management of imported supply chain products – incorporating country-specific sustainability criteria in life cycle decision analysis 

  Brent, Alan Colin (Going Green, 2002-11-15)

  Sustainability criteria for life cycle management in the South African context differ from other regions of the world. From an environmental perspective, natural water resources are limited and significant losses of topsoil ...
• Life cycle check as a decision support tool for medical waste management in underdeveloped areas of Africa 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Rogers, David E.C.; Rohwer, Mark B. (WasteCon, 2002-09-05)

  In most developing countries, the emphasis for health care has moved to community preventative services and away from district curative health services, e.g. immunization. Sterilization and reuse is being replaced with ...
• Saving product lives in global and local remanufacturing networks : a scientific and commercial work report and an outlook 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Steinhilper, Rolf (2003-12-01)

  Remanufacturing which is becoming the standard term for recycling by manufacturing “good as new” products from used products in an industrial (series production) scale, looks back to an almost 65 year long history. It ...
• Effective consideration of relevant sustainable development aspects pertaining to the life cycles of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) eligible projects 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin (2003-10-20)

  Development projects that are potentially eligible for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) funding under the Kyoto Protocol have been validated to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases compared to the baseline. Apart from ...
• Sustainable life cycle management : indicators to assess the sustainability of engineering projects and technologies 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin (IEEE, 2004-10-15)

  Companies that compete globally are progressively more required to commit to and report on the overall sustainability performances of operational initiatives, i.e. undertaken projects or technological innovations. A ...
• Opportunities for remanufactured electronic products from developing countries : hypotheses to characterise the perspectives of a global remanufacturing industry 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Steinhilper, Rolf (IEEE Africon, 2004-09-01)

  Global legislative and market pressures are increasingly enforcing the concept of product life cycle management (LCM), or product stewardship, particularly in the electronics sector. Thereby, from an environmental ...
• Optimising maintenance strategies in the process industry to maximise the environmental performances of assets 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Botha, Amélia; Van Waveren, C.C. (International Conference of Maintenance Societies (ICOMS), 2005-06-05)

  Advantages and disadvantages have been associated with the different maintenance concepts. A major disadvantage of all of the maintenance strategies and related techniques is that environmental implications are typically ...
• A sustainability cost accounting methodology for technology management in the process industry 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Van Erck, Ron P.G.; Labuschagne, Carin (International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), 2005-05-20)

  Decision-makers in the South African process industry have communicated the need to express all aspects of sustainable development into monetary terms for internal decisions. Especially where new technology developments ...
• Sustainable life cycle management : a case study in the process industry to develop a calculation procedure for social indicators following conventional LCIA methods 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin (2005-02-20)

  Social criteria have been proposed to evaluate the sustainability of operational initiatives in the process industry through an integrated Life Cycle Management (LCM) approach. Indicators for these social criteria are ...
• Selection of sustainable rural agriculture projects in South Africa : Case studies in the LandCare programme 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Mulder, Jacques (IEEE, 2005-09-01)

  The degradation of natural resources has a direct and significant impact on those living in rural areas. The resultant increasing pressure that is placed on the livelihoods of rural people leads to desperate and poor ...
• Selection of sustainable rural agriculture projects in South Africa : Case studies in the LandCare programme 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Mulder, Jacques (2005-09-01)

  The LandCare programme of the South African national government aims to address problems associated with the degradation of natural resources by facilitating rural agricultural projects that are sustainable over their ...
• Establishing an environmental profile of water supply in South Africa 

  Brent, Alan Colin (2006-11-11)

  The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase of life cycle assessments (LCAs) evaluates the potential environmental impact profiles of industrial activities throughout the life cycles of products and processes. The LCIA ...
• Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries : case studies Lesotho and South Africa 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Rogers, David E.C.; Ramabitsa-Siimane, Tsaletseng S.M.; Rohwer, Mark B. (WasteCon, 2006-09-05)

  This paper focuses on the establishment of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in the context of sustainable development in the developing country situations. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), a ...
• Sustainability science and the management of renewable energy technologies 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Rogers, David E.C. (International Council for Science, 2007-06-15)

  The emerging field of sustainability science recognises the important role of technologies in reaching the conditional goals of sustainable development. Research in sustainable technologies requires transdisciplinarity to ...
• Environmental impact assessment (EIA) during project execution phases : Development of a stage-gate project management model for the process industry 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Petrick, Werner (International Association for Impact Assessment, 2005-08-05)

  Companies in the process industry manage numerous projects, which differ in size, capital expenditure and environmental aspects. Although environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are required for all these projects, the ...
• Sustainable life cycle management : development of social indicators for technology management in the process industry of South Africa 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin (Portland International Conference for the Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2005-07-29)

  Corporations are increasingly pressurised to commit to and report on the overall sustainability performances of operational initiatives, i.e. undertaken projects or technological innovations. A prerequisite for aligning ...
• Technology life cycle management : challenges to manage the R&D process 

  Brent, Alan Colin (Life Cycle Management, 2007-08-20)

  The complexity of integrating the concept of sustainable development and the reality of technology or innovation management practices has been argued. The purpose of the research was to establish a conceptual framework of ...
• Sustainable project life cycle management : aligning project management methodologies with the principles of sustainable development 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin (2004-06-01)

  Industries are increasingly pressurised to incorporate the objectives of sustainable development into company policies and decision-making processes, i.e. social equity, economic efficiency and environmental performance. ...
• Towards social indicators for project life cycle management purposes 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin (International Association for Impact Assessment, 2006-05-15)

  Industry has experienced a shift in stakeholder pressures from environmental to social-related concerns, where new developments in the form of projects and technologies are undertaken. However, the measurement of social ...
• The transfer of energy technologies in a developing country context - towards improved practice from past successes and failures 

  Brent, Alan Colin; Mabuza, Lindiwe O.K.; Mapako, Maxwell (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2007-06-01)

  Technology transfer of renewable energy technologies is very often unsuccessful in the developing world. Aside from challenges that have social, economic, financial, institutional and environmental dimensions, technology ...

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