TY - BOOK AU - Golinska,Paulina ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - EcoProduction and Logistics: Emerging Trends and Business Practices T2 - EcoProduction, Environmental Issues in Logistics and Manufacturing, SN - 9783642235535 AV - TA170-171 U1 - 660.6 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Environment KW - Production management KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental engineering KW - Biotechnology KW - Sustainable development KW - Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology KW - Sustainable Development KW - Operations Management KW - Environmental Management N1 - Sustainability and Life Cycle Management -- Environmental Friendly Resource Management in Production -- Information Systems and Information Management Supporting Sustainability N2 - Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient and productive use of raw materials and natural resources in order to minimize footprints on the natural environment. This book aims to provide the state- of- the- art as well as new ideas of the environmental conscious operations management. The contributors present in the individual chapters problems related to: eco-friendly production technologies; recycling and waste reduction. Scope of topics discussed in this book covers also pollution prevention, energy efficiency. The authors describe problems of information management in complex systems UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23553-5 ER -