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Thomas Lindhqvist

Thomas Lindhqvist

Senior lecturer

Thomas Lindhqvist

Corporate management tools to address sustainability challenges - A reflection on the progress and difficulties experienced during the last decade

Author

  • Thomas Lindhqvist

Summary, in English

A number of corporate management tools have been developed during the last decades. This has given the impression that industry is in the lead for developing a more environmentally sound and sustainability-adopted future as concerns the production and the products they are working responsible from. This paper includes a short review of some key tools, including cleaner production assessments, life cycle assessments, environmental management systems, environmental management accounting and various types of eco-labels. The review examines the fundamental strengths and weaknesses with the tools, paying special attention to the rationale for companies to use such tools. The conclusion is that many of the tools have not lead to improvements that can be substantiated by current research. However. the level of activities has been quite good and there is a staggering number of more than 129 000 companies that have been certified according to ISO 14001. The biggest challenge seems to be connected to the tools that are striving for life cycle improvements, and here the author sees a role for more active policymaking from the side of governments.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

351-355

Publication/Series

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volume

6

Issue

5

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • EMS
  • environmental management
  • management tools
  • EMA
  • LCA

Conference name

4th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Management

Conference date

2007-09-12 - 2007-09-15

Conference place

Iasi, Romania

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1843-3707
  • ISSN: 1582-9596