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
- Carbon Footprinting - H. Scott Matthews and Chris Hendrickson
- Water Impacts of Marcellus Shale Extraction - Chris Hendrickson, Mike Griffin, and Mohan Jiang, Jeanne VanBriesen
- GHG Impacts of Marcellus Shale Extraction - Chris Hendrickson, Mike Griffin, and Mohan Jiang
- Impacts of Low-Carbon Fuel Standards on Emissions - Mike Griffin and Scott Matthews
Previous Research Summaries (no longer funded or being actively pursued)
- Disposition and End of Life Options for Computers - Scott Matthews, Deanna Matthews, and Chris Hendrickson
- Product Takeback Systems Design -- Markus Klausner and Chris T. Hendrickson
- Heavy Metal Flow Modelling - Troy Hawkins, Cortney Higgins, Amanda Rehr, Chris Hendrickson, Lester Lave, H. Scott Matthews and Mitchell Small
- Full Cost Environmental Accounting -- Cheryl Horney, Chris T. Hendrickson, Lester Lave, and H. Scott Matthews
- Environmental Implications of Construction and Infrastructure - Arpad Horvath and Chris T. Hendrickson
- Environmental Lead Flow: Soil Resuspension Contributes to Airborne Lead - Allison Harris and Cliff Davidson
- Environmental Benchmarking and Management Systems - Deanna Matthews, Chris Hendrickson and Lester Lave
- 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
- 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