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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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(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 ...
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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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(National Cleaner Production Centre, 2007-02-01)An overview of applying the life cycle assessment tool in the automotive sector of South Africa.
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(2002-08-23)A feature compiled on the AIDC and the reasons for establishing such a Centre.
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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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(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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(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 ...
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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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(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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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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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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(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 ...
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