A Study on the Environmental Performance of Products- Establishing an Ecological Footprints Conversion Framework for Environmental Impacts

碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境管理研究所 === 91 ===   For achieving business sustainability, enterprises are looking for suitable tools to evaluate product’s sustainability. Traditionally, life cycle assessment (LCA) is using for assessing product’s environmental attributes. However, LCA suffers from the subjective...

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Main Authors: Yu-min Hsieh, 謝又民
Other Authors: Allen Hu
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2003
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93000388007063929241
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spelling ndltd-TW-091NHU057000022016-06-22T04:20:20Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93000388007063929241 A Study on the Environmental Performance of Products- Establishing an Ecological Footprints Conversion Framework for Environmental Impacts 產品環保性評估之研究-建構環境衝擊之生態足跡換算機制 Yu-min Hsieh 謝又民 碩士 南華大學 環境管理研究所 91   For achieving business sustainability, enterprises are looking for suitable tools to evaluate product’s sustainability. Traditionally, life cycle assessment (LCA) is using for assessing product’s environmental attributes. However, LCA suffers from the subjective weighting judgment when environmental impact assessment is involved. Using the concept of ecological footprint (EF), which is a conversion of resource consumption to land, to assess the product could resolve the controversy mentioned above. In the past, EF assessments were concentrated on evaluating resources consumption rather than pollution or environmental impact. In order to appraise the environmental attributes of products, a framework based on the carrying capacity of lands and the purification capacity of vegetations to convert pollution into land was developed. Using the methodology developed, several environmental impacts are able to convert into EF, these include global warming, atmospheric acidification, photochemical ozone (smog), eutrophication and heavy metal contamination of soil. Results from a LCA study of lead acid battery were utilized to estimate the EF of environmental impacts mentioned above, they are 3.58ha, 28.55ha, 1.01ha, 0.0003ha and 0.05ha for global warming, atmospheric acidification, photochemical ozone (smog), eutrophication and heavy metal contamination of soil, respectively. It is believed that the conversion framework developed in this study should be able to boost the study of evaluating the sustainability of products, and to differentiate the products based on the environmental attributes.   Allen Hu 胡憲倫 2003 學位論文 ; thesis 96 zh-TW
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description 碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境管理研究所 === 91 ===   For achieving business sustainability, enterprises are looking for suitable tools to evaluate product’s sustainability. Traditionally, life cycle assessment (LCA) is using for assessing product’s environmental attributes. However, LCA suffers from the subjective weighting judgment when environmental impact assessment is involved. Using the concept of ecological footprint (EF), which is a conversion of resource consumption to land, to assess the product could resolve the controversy mentioned above. In the past, EF assessments were concentrated on evaluating resources consumption rather than pollution or environmental impact. In order to appraise the environmental attributes of products, a framework based on the carrying capacity of lands and the purification capacity of vegetations to convert pollution into land was developed. Using the methodology developed, several environmental impacts are able to convert into EF, these include global warming, atmospheric acidification, photochemical ozone (smog), eutrophication and heavy metal contamination of soil. Results from a LCA study of lead acid battery were utilized to estimate the EF of environmental impacts mentioned above, they are 3.58ha, 28.55ha, 1.01ha, 0.0003ha and 0.05ha for global warming, atmospheric acidification, photochemical ozone (smog), eutrophication and heavy metal contamination of soil, respectively. It is believed that the conversion framework developed in this study should be able to boost the study of evaluating the sustainability of products, and to differentiate the products based on the environmental attributes.  
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