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  • A framework for integrating systems thinking into sustainable manufacturing

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    Zhang, Hao
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    Improving the understanding the relations of sustainability behaviors in manufacturing systems and actively engaging with manufacturers (especially SMEs) in sustainability efforts is key to the long-term success of U.S. industry and the natural environment. This study addresses this urgent need by establishing a systemic approach for the design of costing...
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    is key to the long-term success of U.S. industry and the natural environment. This study addresses

  • Pollution prevention in Oregon's electronics industry

    Creator:
    Jones, Cynthia L.
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    Pollution prevention is promoted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental agencies as a method of reducing the generation of wastes and pollutants. Pollution prevention is also called source reduction because it reduces wastes early in the production process. Source reduction has been used by some industries to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Industry. Abstract approved: Anna Harding Pollution prevention is promoted by the Environmental

  • An information modeling framework and desktop application to compose unit manufacturing process models for sustainable manufacturing assessment

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    Smullin, Matteo M.
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    The demand from consumers for more sustainable products, and the need to comply with government regulations motivates manufacturers to evaluate their operations for opportunities to reduce environmental impact and improve economic competitiveness. Manufacturers have actively improved the sustainability performance of their products through the use of sustainability assessment methods and...
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    manufacturers to evaluate their operations for opportunities to reduce environmental impact and improve

  • Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and environmental planning

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    Kang, Hee Jung
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    Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM) has been suggested for the solution of complicated decision problems. Decision analysis in numerous areas, including industrial energy and environmental planning, necessarily requires consideration of multiple conflicting objectives. MODM has been successfully applied to a number of these problems of this type. Moreover, it has the...
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    . Industry Value Adde(%) d Energy Consum(%ption ) Food, tobacco 20.4 6.9 Textiles 17.7 10.3 Paper, wood

  • Life-cycle inventory of plywood manufacturing in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast United States

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    Sakimoto, Eric T.
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    Softwood plywood is one of the structural wood products studied in the CORRIM II effort to document the environmental performance of wood product in residential structures. Life-cycle inventory (LCI) models were developed to provide performance data for plywood production by tracking all of its inputs and outputs in a gate-to-gate...
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    develop logical options to improve on the environmental performance of the industry as a whole. CORRIM II

  • Chemical transformation of rice husk ash for sustainable, constructable, and durable binary cementitious system

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    Prasittisopin, Lapyote
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    The production of cement and concrete results in the production of large amounts of CO₂ emissions which can have significant negative environmental impacts. Using supplementary cementing materials (SCMs) as a cement replacement is an effective solution to reduce these negative environmental impacts, as most SCMs are waste by-products from other...
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    of CO2 emissions which can have significant negative environmental impacts. Using supplementary

  • The role of knowledge and environmental values on consumer beliefs, attitude, and purchase intention toward leather products

    Creator:
    Becker, Elizabeth S.
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    Globally, it is estimated that over 2,518,200 tons of hides and skins were exported in the year 2011 alone, with an estimated world production yield of 23 billion square feet of finished leather (FA0, 2011; Mwinyihija, 2011). While some manufacturers have adopted eco-friendly production methods, most tanneries still practice the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Microsoft Word - The Role of Knowledge and Environmental Values

  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

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    Bullock, Claude George, III
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    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    environmental degradation during the shale gas extraction process while industry profits skyrocket. The manner

  • Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

    Creator:
    Wu, Caiwen
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    Location is a critical component of business decisions. A firm's location decision may be influenced not only by market forces, such as the location of input suppliers, output processors and competitors, but also by government policies if such policies impact their expected profits and are applied non-uniformly across space. Likewise,...
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    reinforce or offset the negative impacts of environmental regulation, depending on the industry. The

  • Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work cell

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hao
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    Sustainability has been the focus of intense discussions over the past two decades, with topics around the entire product life cycle. In the manufacturing phase, research has been focused solely on environmental impact assessment or environmental impact and cost analysis in its assessment of sustainability. However, few efforts have investigated...
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    been focused solely on environmental impact assessment or environmental impact and cost analysis in