Overcoming Barriers to the Broader Implementation of Life Cycle Thinking in Business and Public Administration

摘要: Preamble. It is the Purpose of this Corner to serve as an information and communication channel well a discussion forum between science policy in general, research management, business public administration with regard goods services (products). aim improve awareness of, help more effectively implement, life cycle thinking all stages decision making administration. This ‘EU Life Cycle Policy Support’ appears regularly. Contributions are invited uninvited articles, comments from LCA community. They outline practical experiences, on new regulations, directives other instruments, important theoretical considerations. first edition provides, for discussion, broad commentary our underlying thoughts ideas. builds ideas presented e.g. context Management special (Int J Special Issue 1, 2007), recent developments European Union. editorial illustrated example references related each issue that were recently published journal (see [1–11]).