Abstract
The increase in industrial activities to meet the growing needs of the population has led many companies to adopt environmental management (EM) policies to offset their impacts on the environment. For this reason, this article proposes a tool to identify the maturity levels of the elements of EM in industrial companies. The principles and practices of these elements were identified in the scientific literature and their practice was tested in an industrial company using the proposed tool. The main results show that the proposed tool allows to measure the maturity of the EM principles in industrial companies, making it possible to direct efforts toward EM elements with lower level of maturity.
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Abbreviations
- CP:
-
Cleaner production
- ED:
-
Eco-design
- EM:
-
Environmental management
- FD:
-
Fully developed
- GSCM:
-
Green supply chain management
- LCA:
-
Life cycle assessment
- MD:
-
Moderately developed
- MG:
-
Maturity grid
- MI:
-
Maturity Index
- OML:
-
Overall maturity level
- PMI:
-
Potential Maturity Index
- SD:
-
Slightly developed
- UD:
-
Undeveloped
- WD:
-
Well developed
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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. This study was funded by FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - São Paulo Research Foundation (Ground Number 2017/16768-6 and 2017/18304-7) and CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Ground Number 312894/2017-1) for the financial support.
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Campos, T.L.R., da Silva, F.F., de Oliveira, K.B. et al. Maturity grid to evaluate and improve environmental management in industrial companies. Clean Techn Environ Policy 22, 1485–1497 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-020-01887-y
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