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| Preface | xiii | ||||||||||
| Acknowledgements | xv | ||||||||||
| Glossary | xvii | ||||||||||
| Acronyms | xxi | ||||||||||
| Chapter 1 | Introduction | 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | The Environment and Mankind - What's the Problem? | 1 | |||||||||
| 2. | The Economy and The Environment - What's the Problem? | 2 | |||||||||
| 3. | The Environment - Why should Business Care? | 4 | |||||||||
| 4. | What's the Goal? | 6 | |||||||||
| 5. | How do we get there? | 7 | |||||||||
| 6. | Re-Linking The Environment, Mankind, and the Economy - Our Approach | 9 | |||||||||
| 6.1 | Start From Cost Management | 10 | |||||||||
| 6.2 | Account for Energy Consumption and Waste Generation, as Well as Monetary Costs | 11 | |||||||||
| 6.3 | Perform Environmental Accounting and Management Along The Value-Chain | 14 | |||||||||
| 6.4 | Measure Waste Using the Waste Index | 16 | |||||||||
| 7. | The Unique Features as we see them | 18 | |||||||||
| 7.1 | An Activity-Based Versus a Conventional Framework | 18 | |||||||||
| 7.2 | Integration of Economic and Environmental Impact | 19 | |||||||||
| 7.3 | Different Environmental Impact Indicators | 19 | |||||||||
| 7.4 | Inclusion of Uncertainty | 20 | |||||||||
| 8. | Outline of this Book | 20 | |||||||||
| Chapter 2 | Environmental Management and Assessment | 23 | |||||||||
| 1. | A Classification of Environmental Impact Reduction Approaches | 23 | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Approaches Focusing on Specific Life-Cycle Stages | 24 | |||||||||
| 1.2 | Approaches Focusing on a Complete Life-Cycle | 25 | |||||||||
| 1.3 | Approaches Going Beyond Single Product Life-Cycles | 26 | |||||||||
| 1.4 | The Natural Step | 27 | |||||||||
| 2. | ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards | 28 | |||||||||
| 3. | Life-Cycle Assessment | 30 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | Goal and Scope Definition | 31 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Inventory Analysis | 32 | |||||||||
| 3.3 | Impact Assessment | 32 | |||||||||
| 3.4 | Interpretation | 34 | |||||||||
| 3.5 | Some Remarks | 35 | |||||||||
| 4. | Bringing Economic Aspects into Environmental Management | 36 | |||||||||
| 4.1 | Environmental Accounting | 36 | |||||||||
| 4.2 | Exergy Costing | 37 | |||||||||
| 4.3 | Emergy Analysis | 38 | |||||||||
| 5. | Measuring Environmental Impact | 39 | |||||||||
| 5.1 | ISO 14031-Environmental Performance Evaluation | 40 | |||||||||
| 5.2 | Sustainability Indicators | 40 | |||||||||
| 5.3 | Macro Level Indicators | 43 | |||||||||
| 5.4 | Global Warming Potential | 44 | |||||||||
| 5.5 | Chemical Indicators | 45 | |||||||||
| 5.6 | Biological Indicators | 46 | |||||||||
| 5.7 | Mass-and Energy-Balance Indicators | 46 | |||||||||
| 6. | Measuring Impact Using the Waste Index | 47 | |||||||||
| 6.1 | Basic Assumption-Measure Impact Relative to Nature | 47 | |||||||||
| 6.2 | Calculating the Waste Index | 48 | |||||||||
| 6.3 | Strengths and Weaknesses | 50 | |||||||||
| 6.4 | Comparing the Waste Index with Global Warming Potential | 52 | |||||||||
| 6.5 | Comparing the Waste Index with EPS and Eco-Indicator 95 | 53 | |||||||||
| 6.6 | Biological Diversity Degradation and Human Health Risks Issues | 57 | |||||||||
| 6.7 | Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Waste Index | 58 | |||||||||
| 7. | What is Next? | 59 | |||||||||
| Chapter 3 | Activity-Based Costing | 61 | |||||||||
| 1. | The ABC Concept | 61 | |||||||||
| 1.1 | The Problem with Traditional Cost Accounting | 61 | |||||||||
| 1.2 | Activity-Based Costing | 64 | |||||||||
| 1.3 | ABC versus Traditional Costing-An Example | 73 | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Another Example-The Hidden Costs of Pollution | 78 | |||||||||
| 1.5 | Summarizing the ABC Approach | 81 | |||||||||
| 2. | From ABC to ABM | 81 | |||||||||
| 2.1 | What is ABM? | 81 | |||||||||
| 2.2 | Managing Processes versus Managing Costs | 83 | |||||||||
| 2.3 | Cost Drivers versus Activity Drivers | 84 | |||||||||
| 2.4 | Cost Reduction in ABM | 85 | |||||||||
| 2.5 | ABM and Total Quality Management | 89 | |||||||||
| 3 | Implementing ABC-What can go Wrong | 89 | |||||||||
| 4 | ABC Adoption and Implementation | 91 | |||||||||
| 4.1 | ABC Adoption | 92 | |||||||||
| 4.2 | ABC Implementation | 93 | |||||||||
| 5. | What is Next? | 93 | |||||||||
| Chapter 4 | Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management | 95 | |||||||||
| 1. | Expanding ABC Into the Environmental Domain | 95 | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Expanding ABC with Environmental Dimensions-Basic Concepts | 96 | |||||||||
| 1.2 | Choosing the Environmental Dimensions | 98 | |||||||||
| 1.3 | The Energy and Waste Content of Resources | 99 | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Tracing Energy and Waste from Resources to Activities to Objects | 101 | |||||||||
| 1.5 | The Result: Activity-Based Cost, Energy, and Waste Assessments | 103 | |||||||||
| 1.6 | Activity-Based Cost, Energy, and Waste Management | 104 | |||||||||
| 2. | Developing Activity-Based Cost, Energy, and Waste Models-Specific Steps | 106 | |||||||||
| 2.1 | Step 1-Identify the Assessment Objects | 108 | |||||||||
| 2.2 | Step 2-Create an Activity Hierarchy and Network | 109 | |||||||||
| 2.3 | Step 3-Identify and Quantify the Resources | 112 | |||||||||
| 2.4 | Step 4-Identify and Quantify the Resource Drivers and Activity Drivers and their Intensities | 117 | |||||||||
| 2.5 | Step 5-Identify the Relationships between Activity Drivers and Design Changes | 119 | |||||||||
| 2.6 | Step 6-Model the Uncertainty | 120 | |||||||||
| 2.7 | Step 7-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of the Activities | 122 | |||||||||
| 2.8 | Step 8-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of the Objects | 123 | |||||||||
| 2.9 | Step 9-Perform Sensitivity and Other Numerical Analyses | 126 | |||||||||
| 2.10 | Step 10-Interpret the Results and Iterate if necessary | 128 | |||||||||
| 3. | Issues Related to Resource Definition and Quantification | 128 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | The Role of the General Ledger | 128 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Renewable Energy also has Embodied Energy and Waste | 129 | |||||||||
| 3.3 | Indirect Energy Consumption, Waste Generation and Environmental Return on Investments | 130 | |||||||||
| 3.4 | Depreciating Energy Content, Waste Content, and other Environmental Impacts | 131 | |||||||||
| 3.5 | Waste of Capacity | 132 | |||||||||
| 4. | More on Uncertainty Modeling and Simulation | 133 | |||||||||
| 4.1 | Uncertainty Distributions | 133 | |||||||||
| 4.2 | Why Monte Carlo Methods? | 135 | |||||||||
| 5. | Some More on Model Quality | 136 | |||||||||
| 6. | What is Next? | 138 | |||||||||
| Chapter 5 | The WagonHo! Case Study | 139 | |||||||||
| 1. | Description of WagonHo! | 139 | |||||||||
| 1.1 | The Organization | 140 | |||||||||
| 1.2 | The Products | 140 | |||||||||
| 1.3 | The Production Facility | 140 | |||||||||
| 2. | Developing an Activity-Based Cost, Energy and Waste model for WagonHo! | 142 | |||||||||
| 2.1 | Step 1-Identify the Assessment Objects | 143 | |||||||||
| 2.2 | Step 2-Create an Activity Hierarchy and Network | 143 | |||||||||
| 2.3 | Step 3-Identify and Quantify the Resources | 144 | |||||||||
| 2.4 | Step 4-Identify and Quantify the Resource Drivers and Activity Drivers and their Intensities | 148 | |||||||||
| 2.5 | Step 5-Identify the Relationships between Activity Drivers and Design Changes | 149 | |||||||||
| 2.6 | Step 6-Model the Uncertainty | 149 | |||||||||
| 2.7 | Step 7-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of the Activities | 149 | |||||||||
| 2.8 | Step 8-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of the Objects | 151 | |||||||||
| 2.9 | Step 9-Perform Sensitivity and Other Numerical Anal yses | 154 | |||||||||
| 3. | Using the model | 155 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | Basic Economic Results and a New Strategy | 156 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Energy Consumption Results | 165 | |||||||||
| 3.4 | Waste Generation Results | 169 | |||||||||
| 3.5 | Critical Evaluation of the Activity-Based Approach | 172 | |||||||||
| 4. | In Closing | 173 | |||||||||
| 5. | Acknowledgments | 173 | |||||||||
| Chapter 6 | The Farstad Shipping Case Study | 175 | |||||||||
| 1. | History of this Case Study | 175 | |||||||||
| 2. | Supply Vessel Terminology | 178 | |||||||||
| 3. | Developing the Activity-Based Cost, Energy and Waste Model for Farstad | 179 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | Step 1-Identify the Assessment Objects | 179 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Step 2-Create an Activity Hierarchy and Network | 180 | |||||||||
| 3.3 | Step 3-Identify and Quantify the Resources | 181 | |||||||||
| 3.4 | Step 4-Identify and Quantify the Resource Drivers and Activity Drivers and their Intensities | 185 | |||||||||
| 3.5 | Step 5-Identify the Relationships between Activity Drivers and Design Changes | 186 | |||||||||
| 3.6 | Step 6-Model the Uncertainty | 186 | |||||||||
| 3.7 | Step 7-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of the Activites | 186 | |||||||||
| 3.8 | Step 8-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of the Objects | 189 | |||||||||
| 3.9 | Step 9-Perform Sensitivity and Other Numerical Analyses | 189 | |||||||||
| 3.10 | Step 10-Interpret the Results and Iterate if necessary | 190 | |||||||||
| 4. | Interpretation & discussion of Results | 190 | |||||||||
| 4.1 | Cost Results | 190 | |||||||||
| 4.2 | Energy Results | 192 | |||||||||
| 4.3 | Waste Results | 195 | |||||||||
| 4.4 | Identifying Win-Win Situations | 198 | |||||||||
| 5. | Analysis of Biological Diversity Degradation and Human Health Risks | 198 | |||||||||
| 6. | Activity-Based Mass Assessments | 200 | |||||||||
| 6.1 | Using Mass as an Environmental Indictor | 200 | |||||||||
| 6.2 | Using Input Mass | 201 | |||||||||
| 6.3 | Using Output Mass | 201 | |||||||||
| 6.4 | Mass as a Measure-Pros and Cons Revisited | 203 | |||||||||
| 6.5 | Using Environmental Indicators as Measures | 205 | |||||||||
| 7. | Critical Evaluation and Closure | 205 | |||||||||
| 8. | What is Next? | 206 | |||||||||
| 9. | Acknowledgments | 206 | |||||||||
| Chapter 7 | The Interface Case Study | 207 | |||||||||
| 1. | Purpose of This Case Study | 207 | |||||||||
| 2. | Description of Interface | 208 | |||||||||
| 2.1 | Company Overview | 208 | |||||||||
| 2.2 | Facilities | 209 | |||||||||
| 2.3 | Product Line Overview | 209 | |||||||||
| 3. | Developing an Activity-Based Energy and Waste model for Interface | 210 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | Step 1-Identify the Assessment Objects | 210 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Step 2-Create an Activity Hierarchy and Network | 211 | |||||||||
| 3.3 | Step 3-Identify and Quantify the Resources | 214 | |||||||||
| 3.4 | Step 4-Identify and Quantify the Resource and Activity Drivers and their Intensities | 216 | |||||||||
| 3.5 | Step 5-Identify the Relationships between Activity Drivers and Design Changes | 218 | |||||||||
| 3.6 | Step 6-Model the Uncertainty | 218 | |||||||||
| 3.7 | Steps 7, 8 and 9-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of Activities and Objects, and Perform Sensitivity and Other Analyses | 218 | |||||||||
| 3.8 | Step 10-Interpret the Results and Iterate if Necessary | 220 | |||||||||
| 4. | Results for Interface Flooring Systems | 221 | |||||||||
| 4.1 | Energy Consumption Results | 221 | |||||||||
| 4.2 | Waste Generation Results | 232 | |||||||||
| 5. | Results in Relation to the PLETSUS Program | 241 | |||||||||
| 6. | What can we learn from the Results? | 243 | |||||||||
| 7. | In Closing | 245 | |||||||||
| 8. | Acknowledgments | 245 | |||||||||
| Chapter 8 | The Westnofa Industrier Case Study | 247 | |||||||||
| 1. | Description of Westnofa Industrier | 247 | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Company Overview | 247 | |||||||||
| 1.2 | Organization | 248 | |||||||||
| 1.3 | Facilities | 248 | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Product Overview | 249 | |||||||||
| 1.5 | EMAS Certification | 250 | |||||||||
| 1.6 | What Did Management Want? | 251 | |||||||||
| 2. | Developing an Activity-Based Energy and Waste model for Westnofa | 251 | |||||||||
| 2.1 | Step 1-Identify the Assessment Objects | 251 | |||||||||
| 2.2 | Step 2-Create an Activity Hierarchy and Network | 252 | |||||||||
| 2.3 | Step 3-Identify the Resources | 254 | |||||||||
| 2.4 | Step 4-Identify and Quantify the Resource and Activity Drivers and their Intensities | 256 | |||||||||
| 2.5 | Step 5-Identify the Relationships between Activity Drivers and Design Changes | 258 | |||||||||
| 2.6 | Step 6-Model the Uncertainty | 260 | |||||||||
| 2.7 | Steps 7, 8 and 9-Find/Compute the Cost, Energy Consumption and Waste Generation of Activities and Objects, and Perform Sensitivity and Other Analyses | 261 | |||||||||
| 2.8 | Step 10-Interpret the Results and Iterate if Necessary | 263 | |||||||||
| 3. | Results for Westnofa Industrier | 264 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | Economic Results and Discussion | 264 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Energy Consumption Results and Discussion | 270 | |||||||||
| 3.3 | Waste Generation Results and Discussion | 274 | |||||||||
| 3.4 | 5000 Frame Bed Sub-Modeling Results and Discussion | 278 | |||||||||
| 4. | What can we learn from this Case? | 280 | |||||||||
| 5. | The Effect on Westnofa | 281 | |||||||||
| 6. | In Closing | 283 | |||||||||
| 8. | Acknowledgments | 283 | |||||||||
| Chapter 9 | Closure | 285 | |||||||||
| 1. | Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management-Cornerstones Revisited | 285 | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Activity-Based Costing and Management | 285 | |||||||||
| 1.2 | Expansion of ABC with Environmental Measures | 286 | |||||||||
| 1.3 | Measuring Impact by Benchmarking Nature | 286 | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Explicit Inclusion of Uncertainty | 287 | |||||||||
| 2. | Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management in Perspective | 288 | |||||||||
| 2.1 | ABCEM-Critical Evaluation | 288 | |||||||||
| 2.2 | ABCEM and conventional ABC/ABM | 289 | |||||||||
| 2.3 | ABCEM and ISO 14000 | 290 | |||||||||
| 2.4 | ABCEM and Continuous Improvement | 290 | |||||||||
| 3. | Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management and Industry | 292 | |||||||||
| 3.1 | ABCEM Applications | 292 | |||||||||
| 3.2 | Industry Feedback | 293 | |||||||||
| 3.3 | The Reason 'Why' | 294 | |||||||||
| 4. | The Benefits of Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management | 294 | |||||||||
| 4.1 | Integration of Economics and Environmental Impact | 294 | |||||||||
| 4.2 | Comparability | 295 | |||||||||
| 4.3 | Inclusion of Indirect/Overhead Impact | 296 | |||||||||
| 4.4 | Improved Tracing | 296 | |||||||||
| 5. | Change Management and Human Behavior | 297 | |||||||||
| 6. | What could be Improved? | 299 | |||||||||
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