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Ecospace Audit - An input Analysis for Products

Contents

Preface

Summary

Introduction

1. Sustainability
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Fair shares in environmental space
1.3 The economic dimension of sustainable development
 
2. Analysing resource use at the company level
2.1 A sustainable company?
2.2 Important elements to be considered when assessing the sustainability challenge of a product/service
 
3. Testing the company - the product
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Input test at the company or product level
3.3 General outline
3.4 Data
3.5 Explanations of terms used in the Ecospace Audit
3.6 Ecospace Audit
Step 1 Define product and life cycle
Step 2 Assess relevant resource inputs for each phase
Step 3 Assess relevant resource inputs needed for resource production
Step 4 Quantify the relevant resource inputs
Step 5 Qualify the sources of the resource inputs
Step 6 Designing growth scenarios
Step 7 Assess the product sustainability challenge
Step 8 A quick scan of general company policies
Step 9 Evaluation and improvement
 
4.  Evaluation of the project
 
References

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