TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubik,Frieder
AU  - Frankl,Paolo
TI  - The future of eco-labelling: making environmental product information systems effective 
SN  - 187471987X
U1  - 658.823 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Sheffield
PB  - Greenleaf
KW  - Eco-labeling
KW  - Consumer goods
KW  - Labeling
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Green marketing
KW  - Environmental responsibility
N1  - "Eco-labelling is one of the key tools used by policy-makers in many parts of the world to encourage more sustainable production and consumption. By providing environmental information on products and services, eco-labels address both business users and consumers and range from mandatory approaches, such as required product declarations, to voluntary approaches, such as national eco-labels...'The future of eco-labelling' plots a course for policy-makers to address some of the historic problems with eco-labelling, to learn what works and what doesn't and to move forward with schemes that can make a real difference to sustainable production and consumption" -- Book jacket; Ch. 1; Introduction; Frieder Rubik --; Ch. 2; Background : theoretical contributions, eco-labels and environmental policy; Eivind Sto, Pal Strandbakken, Dirk Scheer and Frieder Rubik --; Ch. 3; Environmental product information schemes : an overview; Dirk Scheer and Frieder Rubik --; Ch. 4; Eco-labels and consumers; Eivind Sto and Pal Strandbakken --; Ch. 5; Case study : washing machines; Frieder Rubik --; Ch. 6; Case study : tissue paper and copying paper; Paolo Frankl and Lucia Pietroni --; Ch. 7; Case study : tourist accommodation; Silvia Ayuso, Pere Fullana and Eloi Montcada --; Ch. 8; Conclusions; Paolo Frankl, Lucia Pietroni, Eloi Montcada and Frieder Rubik --; Ch. 9; Recommendations; Paolo Frankl, Lucia Pietroni, Dirk Scheer, Frieder Rubik, Eivind Sto and Eloi Montcada
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