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Conference Papers & Presentations (Sustainable Life Cycle Management): Recent submissions
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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