The Industrial Green Game Implications for Environmental Design and Management (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Environmental Prioritization
Environmental Prioritization
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This means that all aspects of a product's life cycle, from development through production and everyday use to disposal and recycling, are considered in addressing environmental concerns. This total systems approach led Volvo in 1989 to initiate development of a sophisticated life cycle analysis system to examine the environmental impacts of materials and products.
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Modern car design teams use computeraided design software that can incorporate standard component modules. Volvo designers required a DFE tool that aggregated environmental impacts and was • computer based; • flexible; • transparent;
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THE EPS SYSTEM The EPS system assesses environmental impacts in terms of ecological and health consequences. It provides an opportunity to enumerate and assess envi
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The EPS system allows bookkeeping of environmental impacts. The principle tools of the EPS system are the definition of so-called environmental load indices for natural resource and energy use and for pollutant emissions.
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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS There are many different ways to evaluate environmental impacts arising from such diverse concerns as depletion of resources or emissions. No system, even if it is developed systematically, is likely to be infallible, however.
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The main objective in developing the EPS system has been to create a tool for use in everyday design situations in which one value expresses the total environmental impact of a material or process. The EPS uses a value that is not equal to money but can be compared with monetary value so that the potential environmental impact of a product can be quantified.
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The detailed analysis can be used to assess where in the life cycle the worst environmental impact occurs and to determine what variables are crucial to making alternative design decisions. Very different environmental impacts are compared in the system through a valuation process.
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IVL Report B 1080. Göteborg, Sweden: Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
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