Title: Environmental knowledge creation and management process: formalisation, diffusion and valorisation model

Authors: DominiqueMillet, Ameziane Aoussat, Loic Jacqueson, Stephanie Minel

Addresses: Laboratory CPNI ENSAM Paris, 151 boulevard de l'Hopital, 75 013 Paris, France. Laboratory CPNI ENSAM Paris, 151 boulevard de l'Hopital, 75 013 Paris, France. FAURECIA, R&D/I, Etudes Avancees Route d'Etampes, Brieres-les-Scelles BP 89, 91152 Etampes Cedex, France. FAURECIA, R&D/I, Etudes Avancees Route d'Etampes, Brieres-les-Scelles BP 89, 91152 Etampes Cedex, France

Abstract: To integrate the environment in product design is neither a recent processing method nor an original one. However, one can easily note that in spite of all declarations made in this domain, it remains difficult to know and to evaluate the environmental qualities of a product, and therefore to know a fortiori if this product is ||better|| or not than another one. Without separating the question of the adequacy of available resources from the problems to be solved, we will lean on the contributions of knowledge management to propose an approach of environmental integration, based on knowledge creation and management, which allows the product designers to appropriate better this new domain; (we position ourselves thus at the interface between environment domains, product design and knowledge management). We will therefore propose a learning piloting tool, for which we specify the development scheme and its use with the help of concrete cases.

Keywords: knowledge management; learning process; integration; environmentally sustainable development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJETM.2002.000794

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2002 Vol.2 No.4, pp.315-327

Published online: 21 Jul 2003 *

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