References

• Product and business improvement through the application of life cycle management and approaches (Adobe PDF file, 495KB)
  
  KPMG was engaged to conduct workshops and one-on-one interviews with Victorian businesses to gain a better understanding of their perceptions and level of understanding about Life Cycle Management.
  
  This consultative process (and supporting research report) has provided valuable insights into both the barriers for adopting Life Cycle Management and the opportunities to guide and inform business about how this valuable approach can be utilised more effectively. This information also formed the building block for the development of this website, tailored to the specific needs of Victorian business.

Environment Canada

• This website contains a significant amount of material from Environmental Life Cycle Management: A Guide to Better Business Decisions, Environment Canada, 1997. It has been reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2005. It is not an official version of the Environment Canada publication, and there is no affiliation with, or endorsement of the material by Environment Canada.

United Nations

• United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Life Cycle Initiative
• UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, Draft Final Report of the LCM Definition Study Version 3.6, November 17, 2003 (Adobe PDF file)
  Authors: Konrad Saur, Gianluca Donato, Elisa Cobas Flores, Paolo Frankl, Allan Astrup Jensen, Evans Kituyi, Kun Mo Lee, Tom Swarr, Mohammed Tawfic, Arnold Tukker with contributions from Gerald Rebitzer and Bo Weidema.
• UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, UNEP Guide to Life Cycle Management – A Bridge to sustainable products Final draft, 30 December 2004.
• UNEP/ SETAC Life Cycle Initiative (2001), UNEP / SETAC Co-Operation on Best Available Practice in Life Cycle Assessment, UNEP Division Technology, Industry and Economics, Paris, France

EU Directives

• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
• Restriction on Hazardous substances
• Regulation, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals
• End of Life Vehicles

Other Publications/References

• Albinger, H. and Freeman, S. (2000), Corporate Social Performance and Attractiveness as an Employer to Different Job Seeking Populations, Journal of Business Ethics, 28:243-253
• Bansal, P. and Roth, K. (2000), Why companies go green: a model of ecological responsiveness, Academy of Management Journal, 43(4) pp 717-736
• Bhander et al. (2003), Implementing Life Cycle Assessment in Product Development, Environmental Progress, Vol. 22, No. 4, p 265.
• De Bruijn, Th. and A. Tukker (eds.2002), Partnership and Leadership: Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London
• Dolan, K.A. (1997), Kinder, Gentler MBAs, Forbes, June 2, p 39-40
• Dormann, Jurgen and Holliday, Chad, Innovation, technology, sustainability and society. A World Business Council for Sustainable Development report, 2002
• Elkington, J. (1998), Cannibals with Forks, Capstone Publishing, Oxford, UK
• Fussler, C. with P. James (1996), Driving Eco-innovation, Pittman Publishing, UK
• Holme R. and Watts P. Corporate Social Responsibility: Making good business sense, Geneva: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2000
• J.P Andrew and H. Sirkin (Sept 2003), Innovating for Cash, Harvard Business Review, p.76
• Klostermann, J.E.M. and A. Tukker (1998, eds.), Product Innovation and Eco-efficiency, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/London/Boston
• Labatt and White in Environmental, Finance: A Guide to Environmental Risk Assessment and Financial Products, 2002
• Porter, Micheal (Dec 2002), The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, Harvard Business Review, p.56
• Rebitzer, G.; Buxmann, K. The Role and Implementation of LCA within Life Cycle Management at Alcan, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2003 (submitted)
• Rebitzer, G. and Hunkeler, D. Life Cycle Costing in LCM: Ambitions, Opportunities, and Limitations – Discussing a Framework, International Journal of LCA 8 (5) 253 – 256, 2003
• Seuring (2004), Business Strategy and the Environment 13, 306-319
• Schmidt, W.P. Life Cycle Costing as Part of Design for Environment – Environmental Business Cases, International Journal of LCA 8 (3) 167 – 174; 2003
• Tischner, Ursula and Nickel, Regina (2003), Eco-design in the printing industry – Life cycle thinking: Implementation of Eco-design concepts and tools into the routine procedures of companies, The Journal of Sustainable Product Design, Vol. 3, pp 19-27
• Thomas, Valerie and T.E. Gradel (2003), Research Issues in Sustainable Consumption: Toward and Analytical Framework for Materials and the Environment, Environ. Sci. Technol., Vol 37, pp 5383 – 5388