Web-based green products life cycle management systems reverse supply chain utilization /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Wang, Hsiao-Fan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Green products.; Business logistics.; Data envelopment analysis approach; Environmental performance assessment tools; Green electricity marketing; Green growth in developing countries; Green product information retrieval system; Green supply chain logistics; Industrial metabolism; Life cycle assessment; Product life cycle management systems; Reverse chain design; Reverse logistics; Strategic management of green supply-chain; Sustainability constraints; Sustainable electronic product design; Sustainable product service systems; System dynamic modelling; Web-based collaborative decision-making; Web-based green products
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This book provides a comprehensive review of current and potential research in green management and control. A unique collection in the growing field of green products, this book is a must-have for new and experienced researchers, as well as practitioners and academicians alike.

Table of Contents:

• I. Life cycle design, planning, and assessment / Raymond Tan, Alvin Culaba, Michael Purvis, Joel Tanchuco
• II. Industrial metabolism / A. Lambert
• III. Sustainability constraints as system boundaries / Henrik Ny, Jamie MacDonald, Göran Broman, Karl-Henrik Robèrt
• IV. Environmental criteria in a MCDM context / Ahmed Bufardi, Dimitris Kiritsis
• V. Sustainable electronic product design / Xiaoying Zhou
• VI. From cleaner production to greening the local economy / Nobutaka Odake, Satomi Furukawa
• VII. Does trust foster sustainability? Results from a management simulation game / Harold Krikke
• VIII. Identifying and clustering of target customers of green products / Miao-Ling Wang
• IX. Application of fuzzy analytic network process and fuzzy TOPSIS to the undesirable location selection problem / Semih Önüt
• X. Sustainable product service systems / David Ness
• XI. Strategic decisions for green electricity marketing / Marta Pérez-Plaza
• XII. Modeling of green supply chain logistics / Hsin-Wei Hsu
• XIII. Reverse supply chain design / Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta
• XIV. System dynamics modeling for strategic management of green supply chain / Ying Su, Zhanming Jin, Lei Yang
• XV. A vehicle routing and scheduling model for a distribution center / Hsiao-Fan Wang
• XVI. A data envelopment analysis approach for household appliances and automobile recycling / Elif Kongar, Surendra Gupta
• XVII. Green product retrieval and recommendations system / Yi-Chun Liao
• XVIII. Applying web-based collaborative decision-making in reverse logistics / Giannis Tsoulfas, Costas Pappis, Nikos Karacapilidis.