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Sustainable Development
- Eco-Efficiency - Pollution Prevention

Concepts
• Green Chemistry
• Cleaner Production
• Total Quality Management
• Life-Cycle Thinking
• Design for Environment
• Industrial Ecology

Political Instruments
and
Standards

Analytical Tools Procedural Tools
• Cost-Benefit and Effectiveness Analysis • Environmental Impact Assessment
• Life-Cycle Assessment • Environmental Management Systems
• Environmental Risk Assessment • Environmental Auditing
• Impact Pathway Analysis • Eco-labelling
• Process Simulation and Eco-design Guidebooks
• Accident Prevention
• Material Flow Accounting
• Substance Flow Analysis

Technical Elements

Data

FIGURE 1.1 Conceptually related methods in environmental management. (Adapted from
De Smet, B. et al., Life-cycle assessment and conceptually related programs, working group
draft, SETAC-Europe, Brussels, 1996.)

1. Economic: we need economic growth to assure our material welfare.
2. Environmental: we need to minimize environmental damage, pollution,
and exhaustion of resources.
3. Social: the world’s resources should be shared more equitably between
the rich and the poor.

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