Environmental Issues For The Automotive Industry
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Author | : Paulina Golinska |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3642238378 |
The automotive industry is one of the most environmental aware manufacturing sectors. Product take-back regulations influence design of the vehicles, production technologies but also the configuration of automotive reverse supply chains. The business practice comes every year closer to the closed loop supply chain concept which completely reuses, remanufactures and recycles all materials. The book covers the emerging environmental issues in automotive industry through the whole product life cycle. Its focus is placed on a multidisciplinary approach. It presents viewpoints of academic and industry personnel on the challenges for implementation of sustainable police in the automotive sector
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Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780768009408 |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1992-02-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0309045304 |
This volume presents realistic estimates for the level of fuel economy that is achievable in the next decade for cars and light trucks made in the United States and Canada. A source of objective and comprehensive information on the topic, this book takes into account real-world factors such as the financial conditions in the automotive industry, costs and benefits to consumers, and marketability of high-efficiency vehicles. The committee is composed of experts from the fields of science, technology, finance, and regulation and offers practical evaluations of technological improvements that could contribute to increased fuel efficiency. The volume also examines potential barriers to improvement, such as high production costs, regulations on safety and emissions, and consumer preferences. This practical book is of considerable interest to car and light truck manufacturers, policymakers, federal and state agencies, and the public.
Author | : National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999-08-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309173000 |
Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics is a corporate-focused analysis that brings clarity and practicality to the complex issues of environmental metrics in industry. The book examines the metrics implications to businesses as their responsibilities expand beyond the factory gateâ€"upstream to suppliers and downstream to products and services. It examines implications that arise from greater demand for comparability of metrics among businesses by the investment community and environmental interest groups. The controversy over what sustainable development means for businesses is also addressed. Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics identifies the most useful metrics based on case studies from four industriesâ€"automotive, chemical, electronics, and pulp and paperâ€"and includes specific corporate examples. It contains goals and recommendations for public and private sector players interested in encouraging the broader use of metrics to improve industrial environmental performance and those interested in addressing the tough issues of prioritization, weighting of metrics for meaningful comparability, and the longer term metrics needs presented by sustainable development.
Author | : Paul Niewenhuis |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2003-08-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780849320729 |
Building on a wealth of research, The Automotive Industry and the Environment addresses current challenges in the automotive industry and how they can be met. The authors discuss the development of the automotive industry and the problems it currently faces and consider possible solutions. The book reviews trends in more environmental-friendly technologies, such as the use of more sustainable fuel sources and new types of modular designs with built-in recyclability. The book also describes new models of decentralized production, particularly the micro factory retailing (MFR) model, that provide an alternative to volume production and promise to be both more sustainable and more profitable.
Author | : William Glaze |
Publisher | : SAE International |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1999-08-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0768065747 |
This book presents an analysis on the potential effects of globalization on the automotive industry and the environment. Energy challenges, market economy growth, and population dynamics are considered. The authors also present future scenarios for transportation technologies to meet the ever growing global demand for transportation of goods and services while minimizing energy and environmental impacts and maximizing cost, value and widespread acceptance.
Author | : Paul Nieuwenhuis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Science |
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The motor industry is the largest manufacturing industry in the European Community, US and Japan, yet its products are among the most environmentally damaging. Although public opinion in much of the industrialised world has turned 'green', confusion still remains as to the implications for the motor industry. Will the car survive, and if so in what form? Can we afford to do without the motor industry, and can we distribute our goods without tracks? Motor Vehicles in the Environment highlights a number of issues which form the basis of future legislation affecting the motor industry. It offers a series of perspectives ranging from 'green', governmental, economic and marketing issues, to the impact on a specific sector of the industry. Prominent international experts analyse the implications of the green revolution for their specialist fields and areas of interest.
Author | : Sponsored by The Health Effects Institute |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 703 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309037263 |
"The combination of scientific and institutional integrity represented by this book is unusual. It should be a model for future endeavors to help quantify environmental risk as a basis for good decisionmaking." â€"William D. Ruckelshaus, from the foreword. This volume, prepared under the auspices of the Health Effects Institute, an independent research organization created and funded jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the automobile industry, brings together experts on atmospheric exposure and on the biological effects of toxic substances to examine what is knownâ€"and not knownâ€"about the human health risks of automotive emissions.
Author | : Joseph P. Biniek |
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Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Automobiles |
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Author | : John Mikler |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1849802246 |
. . . fascinating and stimulating book, which is both comprehensive and partial in equal degree. Peter Wells, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning Greening the Car Industry is an innovative book in the Varieties of Capitalism tradition. Its interviews and analysis offer rich insights into why the US car industry struggles, particularly on environmental impact, compared to Japanese and German firms. John Mikler shows that regulatory institutions matter, and how they matter. For the car industry at least, more collaborative forms of capitalism show more promise. Mikler gives us a masterpiece of regulatory scholarship. John Braithwaite, The Australian National University Corporations, including those in the car industry, are increasingly keen to proclaim their green credentials. But what motivates firms to reduce the environmental impact of their products? Rather than accepting the conventional wisdom, John Mikler addresses this question in a novel way by taking a comparative institutionalist approach informed by the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Focusing on Germany, the US and Japan, the author shows that national variations in capitalist relations of production are central to explaining how the car industry tackles the issue of climate change, such variations are crucial for understanding the normative as well as material basis for firms motivations. This ground-breaking book will be of great benefit to students and academics, particularly those with an interest in comparative politics, public policy and international political economy. It may also serve as a resource for courses on environmental politics and environmental management as well as aspects of international relations and business/management. Given the book s contemporary policy relevance, it will be a valuable reference for policy practitioners with an interest in industry policy, multinational corporations, the environment, and institutional approaches to comparative politics.