Overview
- Illustrates how Life Cycle Management is or can be integrated into business practice, thereby creating sustainability within organizations
- Provides thorough insight into Life Cycle Management, its origin, evolution and state of practice, including progress made and current challenges
- Sketches the operationalization of Life Cycle Management in organizations and its linkage to business value creation
- Contributors from both research and practice domains offer the reader a qualified and comprehensive understanding of this dynamic and increasingly relevant field of business practice
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About this book
This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and management of smart agricultural systems, smart mobility systems, urban infrastructures and energy for the built environment. The book is based on papers presented at the 8th International Life Cycle Management Conference that took place from September 3-6, 2017 in Luxembourg, and which was organized by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and the University of Luxembourg in the framework of the LCM Conference Series.
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Table of contents (57 chapters)
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Front Matter
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LCM, Circular Economy and Product Value Chain
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Enrico Benetto is a successfull R&D manager at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) with 10 years experience and proven reputation in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), ecodesign and innovation of industrial systems and technologies. Dynamic, energetic, visionary and team/project-oriented professional that successfully created and developed an independent consulting firm and then created and manages a LCA research team.
ements, Systematic Product Development and Sustainable Development and is supervising student design projects. His main research interests are in systematic product development and design process management. In his work he analyses potentials and ways of exchanging and adapting methods and systematic design approaches across different design disciplines. Dr. Gericke is chair of the Design Society's Special Interest Group on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP).
Dr. Kilian Gericke is senior researcher in the Research Unit in Engineering Science of the University of Luxembourg. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Berlin, Germany. After receiving his diploma in 2005 he worked at the Technische Universität Berlin until 2010 as Research Associate and obtained his PhD in 2011. Since 2010 he works at the University of Luxembourg in the Engineering Design and Methodology group which is part of the Research Unit in Engineering Science.Dr. Gericke is lecturing courses on Machine El
ements, Systematic Product Development and Sustainable Development and is supervising student design projects. His main research interests are in systematic product development and design process management. In his work he analyses potentials and ways of exchanging and adapting methods and systematic design approaches across different design disciplines. Dr. Gericke is chair of the Design Society's Special Interest Group on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies
Book Subtitle: From Science to Innovation
Editors: Enrico Benetto, Kilian Gericke, Mélanie Guiton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66980-9Published: 04 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09783-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66981-6Published: 03 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 520
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Renewable and Green Energy, Environmental Science and Engineering, Sustainability Management