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May 14, 2012
Article "Carbon Accounting: a systematic literature review." published in the Journal of Cleaner Production

The term "Carbon Accounting" is an often used term in the research area "Climate change mitigation", but the understanding differs between scientific areas and in practice. Thus, the article focus on the questions “How is the term carbon accounting defined?” or “What is the understanding …
Mar 20, 2012
Article "Review and downscaling of life cycle decision support tools for the procurement of low-value products" published in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Based on a research project on Operating Room Textiles, Martin Nowack, Holger Hoppe and Edeltraud Guenther analyze, how environmental aspects can be derived from life cycle management instruments for procurement decisions of low-value products. They derive a decision vector consisting of …
Mar 20, 2012
Freiburg Call for Action - Declaration of International Environmental Laureates

One year after the catastrophy in Fukushima 63 environmental laureates from 37 countries - Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Guenther is one of them - adopted a declaration on Rio+20, the Freiburg Call for Action. They all represent evidence, that solutions to lead the world towards a just and …
Feb 27, 2012
Meeting of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network

In order to support companies in better understanding both the environmental and financial consequences of their material and energy use the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed a standard on Material Flow Cost Accounting, that was released in September 2011. …
Feb 13, 2012
Ausschreibung Studienprojekte in Energie und Umwelt im Sommersemester 2012

Liebe Master- und Diplom-StudentInnen,

Jan 11, 2012
Shades of green
Jan 04, 2012
Call for Ideas "Sustainable Corporate Governance: Cost Consciousness – Business Benefits" Idea Competition of the German Council for Sustainable Development

The German Council for Sustainable Development is asking interested parties to take part in its idea competition "Sustainable Corporate Governance: Cost Consciousness – Business Benefits" . Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Guenther is a member of the steering committee, lead by Jochen Zeitz, …
Aug 31, 2011
2011 Highly commended Award for scholarly publication on environmental performance measurement

Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther and Dipl.-Ing. Vera Greschner Farkavcová received the 2011 Highly commended Award from Emerald LiteratiNetwork for their article "Decision making for transportation systems as a support for sustainable stewardship: Freight transport process evaluation …
Aug 12, 2011
Development of the hurdles analysis of green procurement

The chapter "Hurdles to Greening the Supply-Chain"  (in: Samson, R. M. (ed.): Supply-Chain Management: Theories, Activities/Functiones and Problems) reports about the development of the hurdle analysis of green procurment and the self-evaluation tool.