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Products generate environmental impacts during their life cycle by consuming raw materials and energy, releasing emissions and producing waste. A procurement organisation can be a considerable driving force for more environmentally friendly products e.g. by requiring that products meet certain environmental criteria. The scope for environmental consideration when procuring materiel can be limited by lack of reliable information about the environmental characteristics of the product or service. Different types of tools (e.g. eco-labels, guidelines, checklists and tools for environmental assessment) can contribute some knowledge and help identify environmentally preferable products. This thesis focuses on use of tools for environmental consideration in Swedish defence acquisition but the results are also relevant for other organisations, since the procurement process analysed is rather general and the legal requirements are similar for other public organisations in Europe. A Swedish government decision in 1998 requires the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) and Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to take environmental consideration in all phases of the acquisition process. The importance of a life cycle perspective is stressed in several SAF and FMV environmental documents. The starting point of this thesis was that environmental consideration should be taken in the Swedish acquisition of defence materiel, considering the whole life cycle of products, with the aim of formulating proposals on environmentally friendly procurement. Some Ecodesign tools were reviewed and evaluated, two methods for simplified Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) were compared, tools and methodology were recommended, and used to study military materiel, and environmental Life Cycle Costing (LCC) was examined. In environmental work lacking a life cycle perspective, the most significant aspects risk being overlooked. Use of quantitative and/or simplified LCAs and inclusion of environmental costs in LCC are therefore recommended. LCA proved an ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of attitudes, subjective norms and religiosity on consumer intentions to support government policies on environmentally friendly behaviour. Based on a direct survey of 100 Muslim student respondents then analyzed using multiple linear regression, it was found that attitudes, subjective norms and religiosity as determinants of Muslim consumer intentions in supporting government policies on environmentally friendly behaviour, namely paid plastic bag policies. Finally, an important finding from this study is the contribution of subjective norms as the dominant determinant that influences the Muslim consumer's intention to support government policies to behave in an environmentally friendly manner by being willing to support a paid plastic bag policy.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of attitudes, subjective norms and religiosity on consumer intentions to support government policies on environmentally friendly behaviour. Based on a direct survey of 100 Muslim student respondents then analyzed using multiple linear regression, it was found that attitudes, subjective norms and religiosity as determinants of Muslim consumer intentions in supporting government policies on environmentally friendly behaviour, namely paid plastic bag policies. Finally, an important finding from this study is the contribution of subjective norms as the dominant determinant that influences the Muslim consumer's intention to support government policies to behave in an environmentally friendly manner by being willing to support a paid plastic bag policy.

Since the enactment of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) at the end of 2015 it should encourage all economic actors, including SMEs and Micro Enterprises, to improve themselves in order to improve the quality of production, both goods and services. If this is not done, then Indonesia is a "soft" market for other Asean countries because Indonesia has the largest population size in Asean, which is close to nearly 260 million people. SMEs and micro enterprises, which are the manifestation of people's economic democracy, will be devastated when the heavy flow of goods and services from various Asean countries invades the Indonesian market. Realizing that, empowering SMEs and Micro Enterprises is a necessity and a necessity to be able to find a national identity that has a comparative and competitive advantage. The activity is one of the media in order to strengthen SMEs and Micro Enterprises. For this reason, in the proposed IbM (Science and Technology for the community) Cake Business Group in Penjaringan Sari Surabaya's Cake Village, we chose:1. AA Micro Business under the brand ADFUN; and2. Rahayu Micro Business under the brand PELITA HATI. Where both of them are engaged in the production of typical Surabaya cakes, which so far are both more distinctively known as the Surabaya cake village. This activity aims to improve product quality in the form of various kinds of products, so that there will be more choices of buyers and if there are more variants, the more attractive it is to buyers.

Community economic empowerment is a crucial part of the purpose of decentralization initiatives, which is to create an autonomous territory. Local governments and their communities manage their current resources and set up patterns of partnerships with the private sector in order to generate new jobs and increase the growth of economic activity in the area. The goal of this study was to build a policy model for the management of superior commodities of grapes in Probolinggo City as well as to assess the potential of the superior commodity of grapes and the viability of realizing that potential. In Probolinggo City, grapes have the potential to be a fundamental commodity. To get the feasibility value, the extended analysis method is applied. Utilizing the multiple goal programming paradigm, it is possible to assess the advantages of effectively controlling grape production. Due to the jobs and money it generates, grape farming meets these two criteria, making it both economically and socially viable. This makes it possible for grape farming to function at its best capacity and deliver the finest outcomes. According to the results of the SWOT analysis, aggressive planning was required to achieve the best management of the growth of the grape farming business. In grape growing, producers or the community can enhance productivity outcomes by engaging in the right cultivation management activities. They must, however, limit the holding area used to that of the ideal area.

With the intensification of problems relating to the environment, a growing number of consumers are becoming more ecologically conscious in their preferences and purchases of goods. This paper presents the results of a study conducted among 500 Cypriot consumers, focusing on the factors that shape consumer environmental attitudes and behaviour, as well as on the resulting outcomes. The findings confirmed that both the inward and outward environmental attitudes of a consumer are positively influenced by his/her degree of collectivism, long-term orientation, political involvement, deontology, and law obedience, but have no connection with liberalism. The adoption of an inward environmental attitude was also found to be conducive to green purchasing behaviour that ultimately leads to high product satisfaction. On the other hand, an outward environmental attitude facilitates the adoption of a general environmental behaviour, which is responsible for greater satisfaction with life. The findings of the study have important implications for shaping effective company offerings to consumers in target markets, as well as formulating appropriate policies at the governmental level to enhance environmental sensitivity among citizens. ; Validerad; 2010; 20101208 (ysko)

The objective of this capstone project is to determine the economic feasibility and environmental impact of developing signature sustainable high value products – such as surfboards – using materials derived from algae versus petroleum. This report will incorporate what has been done before, current knowledge, and future pressing conservation issues as they relate to this emerging horizon of biotechnology. Federal government funding supported biofuel research in order to develop gasoline gallon equivalents derived from renewable resources, at first from terrestrial crops such as corn and soybeans, and more recently from algae as a viable resource. This research can now be leveraged to make many petroleum replacement products, but these need to be both economic, as well as environmentally desirable, and this report is intended to identify the feasibility of developing such products.