“Model of sustainable consumption and production management of the company” Doctoral Thesis

Author, institution: Gintė Jonkutė, Kaunas University of Technology

Science area, field: Technology Sciences, Environmental Engineering – 04T

The Doctoral Dissertation is available at the libraries of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio St. 20, Kaunas), Aleksandras Stulginskis University (Studentų g. 11, Akademija, Kauno raj.) and Lithuanian Energy Institute (Breslaujos g. 3, Kaunas).

Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Habil. Jurgis Kazimieras STANIŠKIS (Kaunas University of Technology, Technological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, 04T).

Dissertation Defence Board of Environmental Engineering Science Field:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dainius MARTUZEVIČIUS (Kaunas University of Technology, Technological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, 04T) – chairman;
Prof. Dr. Habil. Remigijus ČIEGIS (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Donald HUISINGH (University of Tennessee, USA, Technological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, 04T);
Prof. Dr. Jolita KRUOPIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Technological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, 04T);
Dr. Genovaitė LIOBIKIENĖ (Vytautas Magnus University, Biomedical Sciences, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 03B).

Annotation:
In this thesis it has been developed the new model of sustainable consumption and production management of the company, which incorporates sustainable development (SD) tools for the three aspects of the company’s activities and for the first time includes the consumer as an active participant.
The aim of the scientific research is to create a model of sustainable consumption and production management of the company, which integrates engineering and other SD tools and helps to solve the problems related with the three aspects of the company’s activities – manufacturing processes, products (services) and relationship with stakeholders, thereby improving the environmental and social performance of the companies and contributing to the implementation of SD goals.
The new model of sustainable consumption and production management of the company integrates wide-accepted SD measures and tools applied to the company’s manufacturing processes, products (services) and cooperation with stakeholders and for the first time includes the consumer as an active participant, which can influence the producer. The algorithm for the application of the model helps to select the most suitable SD tools for the specific company considering values of the three sub-indices of the new integrated index for the overall sustainability state of the company, I_SCP. The efficiency evaluation of the algorithm for the model application was performed in two enterprises from different business sectors.