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The Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE) announces a special issue on, "Sustainability in Manufacturing: The Role of Life Cycle Engineering," experts from a range of disciplines which explores the latest research on sustainable manufacturing and how life cycle engineering is being used to reduce environmental impact.
Some highlights from the issue include:
- Mohannad Shuaib and colleagues from the University of Kentucky introduce a Product Sustainability Index that comprehensively assesses the sustainability of a product-based on four life cycle stages: pre-manufacturing, manufacturing, use, and post-use.
- Tatiana Tambouratzis and colleagues from the University of Piraeus in Greece present a system based on artificial intelligence for the identification of sustainable materials.
- Esther Sanye-Mengual from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and colleagues argue that the maintenance of products - and strategies to influence that maintenance - should be included in product design and communications with users.
- In a complementary article, Livier Serna-Mansoux and colleagues from SEATECH/SUPMECA in France assess the relationship between consumers and products and suggest strategies that could "nudge" consumers to use products in a way that exacts lower environmental costs.
- Karsten Schischke from the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM and colleagues explore the potential energy savings and efficiency benefits through eco-design standards for industrial equipment, including welding equipment.
- Quanyin Tan from Tsinghua University and colleagues quantify the benefits of remanufacturing older products in China.
The issue is available is freely available online for a limited time.
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, owned by Yale University, published by Wiley-Blackwell and headquartered at the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Reid Lifset
Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology
Editor-in-chief, Journal of Industrial Ecology
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale University
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