Ecoproduction and Logistics: Emerging Trends and Business Practices

Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient and productive use of raw materials and natural resources in order to minimize footprints on the natural environment. This book aims to provide the state- of- the- art as well as new ideas of the environmental conscious operations management. The contributors present in the individual chapters problems related to: eco-friendly production technologies; recycling and waste reduction. Scope of topics discussed in this book covers also pollution prevention, energy efficiency. The authors describe problems of information management in complex systems

Author: Paulina Golinska

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: Aug 09, 2012

Number of Pages: 328 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 3642235522

ISBN-13: 9783642235528