title: Indicators of sustainable production: a new tool for promoting business sustainability.
abstract: This paper proposes a new tool for promoting business sustainability--indicators of sustainable production. It discusses the business case for sustainable development and introduces the concept of sustainable production as a way to equally address different aspects of production (environmental and occupational, social and economic). Indicators are suggested as a tool for operationalizing this concept and their objectives, scope, and desirable qualities are outlined. The paper concludes with some recommendations for developing indicators of sustainable production.
authors.affiliation: Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA 01854, USA. Vesela_Velela@student.uml.edu
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authors.lastname: Veleva
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authors.lastname: Ellenbecker