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  • Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and environmental planning

    Creator:
    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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    Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and

  • Assisting decision making in component design for sustainable manufacturing

    Creator:
    Eastlick, Dane D.
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    Current life cycle assessment tools are often deficient in assisting design for sustainable manufacturing efforts. Integrating an improved assessment method into a decision support framework will provide a means for designers and engineers to better understand the impacts of their decisions. A unit process modeling-based sustainability assessment method is presented...
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    Masters Thesis
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    design decision making by accounting for and quantifying economic, environmental, and social attributes

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    decision making, where engineers are required to concurrently consider economic, environmental, and

  • An economic and environmental assessment model for microchannel device manufacturing

    Creator:
    Gao, Qi
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    A key application of microchannel process technology (MPT) is its implementation in heat exchanger devices, since a larger surface contact area can be realized than in conventional approaches, thus achieving high heat transfer efficiency. To justify high volume production of configurations validated as prototypes, and to select from among the...
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    and environmental impacts for microchannel device manufacturing will benefit the industry by

  • A business feasibility tool for artisan cheese operation start-up

    Creator:
    Bouma, Andrea
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    The objective of this study was to develop a decision making tool to determine economic feasibility of artisan cheese operations. A survey of current Oregon artisan cheese companies was used to gain knowledge of the fixed and variable costs associated with cheese production and business start-up. The data from this...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Lisbeth Meunier-Goddik The objective of this study was to develop a decision making tool to

  • The Ore bin ; Vol. 35 No. 2 (February 1973)

    Creator:
    Oregon. Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries and Beaulieu, John D.
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    Journal
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    1973 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY AND THE ENVIRONMENT John D. Beaulieu, Stratigrapher Oregon Dept. of Geology

  • Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

    Creator:
    Thompson, Matthew P.
    Abstract:
    One of the basic questions facing transportation planners and road managers is how to provide and maintain a road system that provides efficient access to the forest while limiting adverse effects roads can have on water and soil resources. The purpose of this study is to develop decision support models...
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    facilitate decision-making. To prioritize treatments, and to assess how well environmental objectives are

  • The role of plastic mulch as a water conservation practice for desert oasis communities of Northern China

    Creator:
    Ingman, Mark Christian
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    China's Minqin Oasis once welcomed traders along the ancient Silk Road with rivers, lakes, and lush forests, yet today the region's farmland and grassland are increasingly being engulfed by the sands of the Gobi Desert. The severity of this incremental catastrophe for a declining population of 300,000 residents has brought...
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    Masters Thesis
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    date has sought to better understand farmers’ perceptions and decision-making processes. Plastic film

  • A framework for integrating systems thinking into sustainable manufacturing

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hao
    Abstract:
    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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    2.1.3 Sustainable Manufacturing Decision Making .................................................. 22