Assessing the compliance of a product with an eco-label: From standards to constraints

Raymond Houe and Bernard Grabot

International Journal of Production Economics, 2009, vol. 121, issue 1, 21-38

Abstract: The new awareness of the consumers regarding environmental issues should allow companies to gain a competitive advantage by obtaining eco-labels which certify the low impact of a product on the environment. Getting such label requires to analyze a product according to rules expressed in natural language which may be difficult to interpret but also to apply when the product is complex. In order to address this problem, we suggest a method aiming at providing support to the user when checking the compliance of a product with an eco-label. The method is applied on an illustrative example of the literature.

Keywords: Sustainable; development; Eco-label; Product; model; ORM; Constraint; propagation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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