Manufacturers, under pressure from their major stakeholders, integrate environmental issues in the design and management of their products. These stakeholders include customers, regulators, employees, communities, and interest groups who have a common stake in protecting the earth from pollution and in limiting the exploitation of earth's limited natural resources. Manufacturers recognize that being environmentally responsible also offers competitive advantage to the firm. The Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing is written as a state-of-the-art reference to guide environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM). All the contributors have done extensive research and/or practice work in the field of ECM.

Chapter 1. Sustainable manufacturing.- Chapter 2. Concepts and methodologies to help promote industrial ecology.- Chapter 3. Systems design and innovations in circular economy.- Chapter 4. Communicating product recovery activities.- Chapter 4. Green design and quality initiatives.- Chapter 6. Corporate and social responsibility.- Chapter 7. Accounting for an environmentally conscious setting.- Chapter 8. The development of eco-labelling schemes.- Chapter 9. Green Advertising.- Chapter 10. Petroleum production activities and depletion of biodiversity.- Chapter 11. Recycling as Universal Resource Policy.- Chapter 12. A Systematic Framework for Environmentally Conscious Design.- Chapter 13. Environmental Attributes of Manufacturing Processes.- Chapter 14. Environmental decision support systems.- Chapter 15. Decision models for reverse production system design.- Environmentally sound supply chain management.- Chapter 16. Environmentally sound supply chain management.- Chapter 17. Climate Change: Opportunities and Risks for the Manufacturing sector.- Chapter 18. Life cycle assessment.- Chapter 19. Multi-pathway and cumulative risk-assessment.- Chapter 20. Reclamation and recycling of municipal waste.- Chapter 21. Environmental Marketing.- Chapter 22. Challenging the future.