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Life Cycle Engineering: Recent submissions
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-05)The complexity of integrating the concept of sustainable development and the reality of technology or innovation management practices has been argued. The primary objective is to introduce a conceptual framework of technology ...
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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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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2007-05)A Sustainability Cost Accounting (SCA) procedure has been introduced that expresses the impacts on sustainable development associated with a developed technology, by means of a common financial denominator. This paper uses ...
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Sustainability assessment criteria for projects and technologies : judgements of industry managers (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2007-05)Industries are increasingly under pressure to incorporate the objectives of sustainable development into company policies and decision-making processes. This study introduces a framework of sustainability assessment ...
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(Engineering News, 2007-07-27)A current year-long project, run by the sustainable energy futures (SEF) research group of the natural resources and the environment unit of the Council for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR), to investigate the ...
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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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(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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(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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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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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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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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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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(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 ...
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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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