Research on Environmental Management
How should we manage environmental impacts of business and society? Environmental management encompasses such issues as product end-of-life options, full cost accounting, corporate environmental responsibility, and assessment of environmental performance. In addition to management issues, it is important to understand how to measure environmental performance of products and companies (e.g., carbon footprints).
Decisions in business involve many factors, and concern for the environment is one of them. We have chosen environmental management as a research thrust to address the growing need for tools and approaches to assist corporations in making decisions on process technologies, products, and future liabilities due to environmental impacts. Listed below are links to short one-page research summaries in PDF format.
On-going Projects
Previous Research Summaries
- Product Takeback Systems Design -- Markus Klausner and Chris T. Hendrickson
- Full Cost Environmental Accounting -- Cheryl Horney, Chris T. Hendrickson, Lester Lave, and H. Scott Matthews
- Automobile End-of-Life Management Issues -- Andrea L. Sterdis and Francis McMichael
- A Broker for Environmental Regulations -- James Garrett, Jr., Steven Fenves
- Environmental Benchmarking of Mexican and United States Industrial Plants -- Ruth Reyna-Caamano, Chris Hendrickson and Lester Lave
- Innovations in Environmental Education--Cliff Davidson and Edward Rubin
- Price Setting for Green Design -- H. Scott Matthews and Lester B. Lave
- A Case Study in Environmentally Conscious Design: Wearable Computers -- Rebecca Lankey, Heather MacLean and Andrea Sterdis
- Toxic Emissions Indices: A Tool for Green Design and Performance Measurement -- Arpad Horvath, Chris Hendrickson, Lester Lave, Francis McMichael and Tse-Sung Wu
