Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities - Softcover

National Academy Of Engineering And National Research Council; Committee On Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030906242X ISBN 13: 9780309062428

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Executive Summary
• 1 Why Study Environmental Metrics?
• 2 What are Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics?
• 3 Guide to the Industry Studies
• 4 The Automotive Industry
• 5 The Chemical Industry
• 6 The Electronics Industry
• 7 The Pulp and Paper Industry
• 8 Summary of Metrics Used by the Four Industry Sectors
• 9 Observations, Trends, and Challenges
• 10 A Hypothetical Model for Improving Aggregation and Presentation of Environmental Performance Metrics
• 11 The Sustainable Enterprise Paradigm Shift
• 12 A Framework for Action
• A Current Reporting and Use of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Global Scale
• B Current Reporting of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics by U.S. Semiconductor Companies
• C Current Reporting and Use of Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Company Scale
• Biographical Data
• Index

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Committee on Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics, National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 030906242X
• ISBN 13: 9780309062428
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264