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Conference Papers & Presentations (Sustainable Life Cycle Management)
Recent Submissions
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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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