Sustainable manufacturing: trends and research challenges
| Autor: | Marco Taisch, Marco Garetti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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0209 industrial biotechnology
Strategy and Management Human life Sustainable manufacturing 05 social sciences 02 engineering and technology Management Science and Operations Research 7. Clean energy Natural resource Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Computer Science Applications Politics 020901 industrial engineering & automation Risk analysis (engineering) Action (philosophy) 13. Climate action 11. Sustainability 0502 economics and business Sustainability Economics Marketing Regeneration (ecology) 050203 business & management Simple (philosophy) |
| Zdroj: | Production Planning & Control |
| ISSN: | 1366-5871 0953-7287 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09537287.2011.591619 |
| Popis: | Sustainability is and will be a crucial issue for the present and future generations. The current assumption that natural resources are infinite and that the regenerative capacity of the environment is able to compensate for all human action is no longer acceptable. Hence, sustainability issues will influence all organisational aspects of the human life, from the economical, political, social and environmental points of view. The reason is simple: until now, all human activities have been based on the paradigm of unlimited resources and unlimited world's capacity for regeneration; from now on, the awareness of the termination of this assumption means that all related behavioural models must be changed. This is a very impressive objective embracing all fields of culture, economy, technology and much more. A continuing effort, together with a reasonable time span, will be required to pursue this goal. Fortunately, nature and the environment are capable of self-regulation and will give man a chance to recove... |
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