Material Flow Networks provide a wide range of options for describing and representing complex material flow systems and evaluating them efficiently for environmental management. Thus, many of the properties and much more of the scope resulting from the Material Flow Network approach can be used to gain a better insight ...

Es sind bereits eine Vielzahl von Aktivitäten zur Ressourceneffizienz sowohl auf Bundes- wie auch auf Landesebene ins Leben gerufen worden [z.B. WING (vgl. http://www.bmbf.de/de/3780.php), Netzwerk Ressourceneffizienz (vgl. http://www.netzwerk-ressourceneffizienz.de/), DEMEA (vgl. http://www.mate ...

This contribution describes concepts and implementation of an extendible tools platform for the development of Environmental Information Management Systems (EMIS), which is based on the open source software framework Empinia. Empinia eases the development of graphical rich client applications for the .NET environment ...

This paper describes basic ideas behind a new standard on how data between Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems and Industrial Environmental Management Information Systems (IEMIS) can be exchanged. It gives an example of how these data can be passed into the IEMIS Umberto ® and shortly discusses the advantages and ...

This paper introduces a joint Thai-German cooperation project for the development of a Management Information System for Eco-efficiency in the Thai agro-industrial sub-sector of palm oil production. The project aims at the improvement of the information and decision basis for factory management on a short term as well ...

This Paper focuses on improvements of the web page WeGreen.de from a usability perspective. This sustainable search engine for products was tested as a case study using the eye tracking method. The main question behind the study was to evaluate the social impact of the sustainability indicator of WeGreen, i.e. if people ...

The underlying assumption of this contribution is that environmental protection and sustainability are already integral parts of our societal mind-set. This would have an impact on the day-to-day operations within companies. We call the resulting evolutionary transformation process integration : the integration of ...

Das Projekt OpenResKit besch ftigt sich mit der Erstellung von Open-Source-basierenden Softwarewerkzeugen zur Unterst tzung von innerbetrieblichen Ressourcen- und Energieeffizienzfragestellungen. Dabei werden vornehmlich kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) fokussiert, welche auf Grund ihrer Anzahl ein erh htes Potential ...