TitleComputers and the environment : understanding and managing their impacts / edited by Ruediger Kuehr and Eric Williams
Imprint Dordrecht, The Natherlands : Kluwer Academic, c2003
Descript viii, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Computers and the environment - An introduction to understanding and managing their impacts / Ruediger Kuehr, German T. Velasquez, Eric Williams -- Information technology products and the environment / H. Scott Matthews, Deanna H. Matthews -- Environmental impacts in the production of personal computers / Eric Williams -- How the European Union's WEEE directive will change the market for electronic equipment - Two scenarios / Klaus Hieronymi, Axel Schneider -- IBM's environmental management of product aspects / Reinhard Hohn, Anne Brinkley -- Environmental management at Fujitsu Siemens Computers / Harald Podratzky -- Energy consumption and personal computers / Danielle Cole -- PCs and consumers - A look at green demand, use, and disposal / Mohamed Saied, German T. Velasquez -- Strategizing the end-of-life handling of personal computers: Resell, upgrade, recycle / Eric Williams, Yukihiro Sasaki -- Today's markets for used PCs - And ways to enhance them / Eric Williams, Ruediger Kuehr -- Recycling personal computers / Stefan Klatt -- Operations of a computer equipment resource recovery facility / Joseph Sarkis -- Managing PCs through policy: Review and ways to extend lifespan / Ruediger Kuehr


SUBJECT

  1. Microcomputers -- Design and construction
  2. Industrial ecology
  3. Microcomputers -- Materials -- Recycling
  4. Green products
  5. Microcomputers -- Environmental aspects

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