Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities

National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council

doi:10.17226/9458

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Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics

Challenges and Opportunities

(1999)

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 gate—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 industries—automotive, chemical, electronics, and pulp and paper—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.

Contributor(s): National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council; Committee on Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics

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National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council. 1999. Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/9458.

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264 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-06242-8
Ebook: 978-0-309-17300-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/9458

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-16
1 Why Study Environmental Metrics?	17-28
2 What are Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics?	29-46
3 Guide to the Industry Studies	47-52
4 The Automotive Industry	53-84
5 The Chemical Industry	85-106
6 The Electronics Industry	107-128
7 The Pulp and Paper Industry	129-146
8 Summary of Metrics Used by the Four Industry Sectors	147-150
9 Observations, Trends, and Challenges	151-168
10 A Hypothetical Model for Improving Aggregation and Presentation of Environmental Performance Metrics	169-182
11 The Sustainable Enterprise Paradigm Shift	183-198
12 A Framework for Action	199-216
A Current Reporting and Use of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Global Scale	217-226
B Current Reporting of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics by U.S. Semiconductor Companies	227-232
C Current Reporting and Use of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Company Scale	233-236
Biographical Data	237-242
Index	243-252

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