“Eco-tool-seeker”: A new and unique business guide for choosing ecodesign tools

Patrick Rousseaux (), Cécile Grémy-Gros (), Marie Bonnin (), Catherine Henriel-Ricordel, Pierrick Bernard, Léa Floury, Gwenaëlle Staigre and Philippe Vincent
Additional contact information
Patrick Rousseaux: PPrime [Poitiers] - Institut Pprime [UPR 3346] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - ISAE-ENSMA - École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique [Poitiers] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Cécile Grémy-Gros: LARIS - Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes - UA - Université d'Angers
Marie Bonnin: LARIS - Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes - UA - Université d'Angers
Catherine Henriel-Ricordel: EME - Ecole des Métiers de l'Environnement
Pierrick Bernard: Eco Engineering
Philippe Vincent: ADEME - Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Environmental sustainability has emerged as a key issue amongst governments, policymakers, researchers, companies and the general public. In Europe, governments are trying to encourage companies to integrate ecodesign into their processes. A great variety of ecodesign tools exists but the actual implementation level of such tools remains limited or not successfully integrated throughout the different company processes. Having identified the main barriers to ecodesign implementation, this article provides a literature review of the existing tools that can be used in various company departments. From this review, 629 tools were found and characterized. Taxonomy was established to classify these tools into 22 categories of ecodesign tools and 5 departments in companies. These tools are classified as normative or non-normative which can be generic or sectorial as well as "environmental" or "improvement". A guide (or information system) has been then developed to help companies to choose ecodesign tools for three targets: production, management or communication. The proposed guide can also be useful for researchers, teachers, and trainers. In order to facilitate these choices, a free computerized version of this guide, called "Eco-tool-seeker", has been developed.

Keywords: SME; Taxonomy; Design for environment; Ecodesign thinking; EcoSD; Information system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, 151, pp.546-577. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.089⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02071245

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.089

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().