Sustainable Production

Building Canadian Capacity
Herausgeber: Toner, Glen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainable Production focuses on the systems by which industrial economies produce goods and services and the ways in which investment and production decisions are influenced by public policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 186mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780774812528
• ISBN-10: 0774812524
• Artikelnr.: 22517154

Autorenporträt

Glen Toner is a professor in the School of PublicPolicy and Administration at Carleton University and a founding memberof the Carleton Research Unit in Innovation, Science and Environment.He is also a member of the panel of advisors to the Commissioner ofEnvironment and Sustainable Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. New Century Ideas and Sustainable Production / Glen Toner andDavid V.J.
Bell
 
Part 1: Sustainable Production and Its Context
2. From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness: Private SectorPractices for
Sustainable Production / Bob Masterson
3. Policy Instruments and Sustainable Production: Toward Foresightwithout
Foreclosure / Robert Paehlke
 
Part 2: The Knowledge-Based Economy, Social Capital, andProduct Design
4. Developing Sustainability in the Knowledge-Based Economy:Prospects and
Potential / Keith Newton and John Besley
5. Sustainability, Social Capital, and the Canadian ICT Sector /David
Wheeler, Kelly Thomson, and Michael A. Perkin
6. Innovation, Architecture, and the Changing Role of DesignProfessionals:
Assessing the Ford Model U / Carey Frey
 
Part 3: External and Internal Drivers of SustainableProduction
7. Collaborative Public Policy for Sustainable Production: A BroadAgenda
and a Modest Proposal / John Moffet, Stephanie Meyer, and JuliePezzack
8. Mobilizing Producers toward Environmental Sustainability: TheProspects
for Market-Oriented Regulations / Mark Jaccard
9. Sustainable Production and the Financial Markers: Opportunitiesto Pursue
and Barriers to Overcome / Blair W. Feltmate, Brian A.Schofield, and Ron
Yachnin
10. Engaging Senior Management on Sustainability / KevinBrady
Conclusion
11. Whither Sustainable Production? Sustainable Enterprise and theRole of
Government / David V.J. Bell and Glen Toner Index