Ecodesign III

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Eco-design III

• Supply of environmental information for decision
  support

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Framework for supply of environmental information
Concepts for environmental sustainability
Implementation
Decision process
Procedural tools
Analytical tools
Technical elements
Data
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Concepts for environmental sustainability 1

• Life Cycle Thinking cradle to grave
  implications
• Life Cycle Management (LCM) continuous
  environmental improvement
• Design for the Environment (DfE) systematic
  environmental considerations
• Sustainable product design (SPD) function and
  system innovation
• Cleaner Technology ( Cleaner production)
  preventive environmental strategy avoiding
  pollution and waste at source, UNEP

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Concepts for environmental sustainability 2

• Dematerialisation ( Factor X) reduction in the
  volume of material and energy used, EU
  environmental ministers
• Eco-efficiency producing more from less, World
  Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Industrial Ecology (IE) links and convergencies
  between industrial and natural systems
• End of Life (EOL) Management focuses on waste
  phase

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Framework for supply of environmental information
Concepts for environmental sustainability
Implementation
Decision process
Procedural tools
Analytical tools
Technical elements
Data
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Decision process

• Issue definition as a consequence of social
  developments
• Criteria setting
• Option generation
• Option assessment
• Selection / final decision

Implementation
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Framework for supply of environmental information
Concepts for environmental sustainability
Implementation
Decision process
Procedural tools
Analytical tools
Technical elements
Data
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Environmental toolbox
Analytical tools
Procedural tools
Qualitative tools checklists, regulatory
assessment, issue analysis
Quantitative tools computational algorithms
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Analytical tools 1 based on physical metrix

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Material Flow Accounting / Substance Flow
  Analysis (MFA/SFA)
• Material Intensity per Service unit (MIPS)
• Cumulative Energy Requirements Analysis (CERA)
• Environmental Input / Output Analysis (IOA)
• Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA)
• Checklists for Eco-design, eco-audit

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Analytical tools 2 based on non-physical metrics

• Market analysis
• Regulatory assessment
• Stakeholder analysis
• Issue analysis
• Socio-economic assessment
• Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
• Total Cost Accounting (TCA)
• Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

• Input/Output Analysis
• Partial equilibrium models
• Optimization models
• Applied general equilibrium models
• Technology Assessment
• Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA)

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Environmental toolbox
Analytical tools
Procedural tools
Qualitative tools checklists, regulatory
assessment, issue analysis
Quantitative tools computational algorithms
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Procedural tools

• Environmental Management System
• Environmental Audit
• Environmental Performance Evaluation
• Environmental labelling
• Eco-design
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Green procurement
• Voluntary agreements
• Quality management system
• Total Quality Environmental Management

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Framework for supply of environmental information
Concepts for environmental sustainability
Implementation
Decision process
Procedural tools
Analytical tools
Technical elements
Data
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Technical elements - methods of obtaining data,
data processing, and presenting information

• Allocation models
• Mass balance models
• Material balances
• Dispersion models
• Dose-response models
• Evaluation models
• Idea generation techniques

• Fate models
• Ecological models
• Normalisation models
• Evaluation models
• Uncertainty analysis
• Sensitivity analysis
• Scenario development
• Backcasting

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Dose response models

• Three main techniques
• Regression response in exposed population
• The odds ratio (OR) ----------------------------
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• response in non-exposed population
• Multiple regression analysis

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Idea generation techniques

• Three groups
• Associative methods stimulate spontaneous
  reactions to earlier expressed ideas
  brainstorming, brain writing use of groups
• Creative confrontation methods forced
  combination of originally unrelated ideas
  synetics, forced relationship, checklists
• Analytic-systematic methods the problem is
  first analysed and put into structure then,
  systematic combination of alternatives is
  performed function analysis, morphology,
  analysis of interconnected decision areas

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Framework for supply of environmental information
Concepts for environmental sustainability
Implementation
Decision process
Procedural tools
Analytical tools
Technical elements
Data
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Data about technical and environmental processes

• Specific data obtained from the specific company
  of concern
• Generic data obtained from technical databases
  or statistics (Eurostat)