Green productivity and sustainable development : report of the APO 2nd World Conference on Green Productivity, 9-11 December 2002, Manila, Philippines. - Tokyo, Japan : Asian Productivity Organization, 2004. - vi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Report of the APO 2nd world conference on green productivity, 9-11 December 2002, Manila, Philippines.

Sustainable development challenges and opportunities : Asia: the challenge of sustainability -- Good governance for sustainable development: the Indonesia case -- Greening technology, industry and market through GP -- Sustainable development and the APO's approach to GP -- Governance and sustainable development : Governance and sustainable development -- Toward an environmentally sustainable economy in Japan -- Noncompliance-a bane to sustainable development -- Future directions of sustainable development : Function-based approach to sustainable production and consumption -- Towards a sustainable future in Asia: considerations for GP practitioners (Eduardo T. Gonzalez) -- GP: future directions -- GP best practices : Policy initiatives for GP implementation -- Government policies in assisting SMEs for sustainable development -- GP at Changi General Hospital -- Development and implementation of a cleaner technology model in schools of Thailand -- GP and sustainable tourism -- Action initiatives for GP implementation -- GP implementation in the edible oil industry in India -- GP implementation at Jo-na's -- GP in precision machining industry -- Energy and environmental education in Thailand - pilot study report -- Mission PET-recycling plastic bottles in Metro Manila (Leonides C. Valencia, Milagros Y. Llorin, and Hubert S. Adoreno) -- GP approaches to poverty alleviation -- GP approach for poverty - the Vietnam experience (1998-2002) -- Implementing agro-based GP-integrated community development in Thailand -- Assessment and measurement of GP -- A decision making tools in GP assessment -- Tools and techniques for achieving GP -- GP and ecomapping - trends, tools and models for building capacity in the market and for sustainable development -- Environmental management accounting: a business driver for GP investments -- Developing an expert system for GP implementation -- GP measurement -- GP measurement -- Establishment of eco-friendly indicators for Japanese companies -- An attempt to measure GP -- Emerging issues in GP -- Managing energy sustainably for GP : Renewable energy issues: NEDO's experience in Southeast Asia -- Energy management in the context of GP -- Managing water sustainably for GP : Water issues in the context of sustainable development -- Water conservation and management in Asian SMEs -- Water conservation in SMEs through GP -- Green supply chain : Green procurement survey on the standardization efforts in the electrical and electronic industries -- Corporate synergy system in Taiwan, ROC -- Linking green supply chain and green procurement -- Green purchasing and eco-business model : Ideas for eco-business market development: a new evaluation methodology -- Product development for GP - a case study of the development of algae resistant surface coating for building facades in the human topics -- Finance for sustainable development : Financing cleaner production investments - the UNEP experience -- Public policies for financing sustainable development (Cielito F. Habito) -- Summary and conclusion

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Production management--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.