Extended Producer Responsibility
Deadline: June 1, 2011
The Journal
of Industrial Ecology
invites you to submit articles for a special issue on Extended
Producer Responsibility
(EPR)
by June 1, 2011.
Extended
producer
responsibility (EPR), also sometimes called product take-back or
product
stewardship, emerged as a policy strategy in the early 1990s.
EPR, according to the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD 2000), is
an
environmental policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility,
physical
and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage
of a
product’s life cycle. There are two related features of EPR policy: (1)
the
shifting of responsibility (physically and/or economically; fully or
partially)
upstream to the producer and away from municipalities, and (2) to
provide
incentives to producers to incorporate environmental considerations in
the
design of their products.
EPR
has been applied principally to packaging, waste electrical and
electronic
equipment (WEEE), end of life vehicles (ELVs), batteries and household
hazardous wastes. Various forms of EPR
have been implemented in Asia, Europe, and in the Americas.
Naoko Tojo,
of the International
Institute
for
Industrial Environmental
Economics
at
Lund
University,
and Atalay Atasu,
of the College of Management
at the Georgia
Institute of Technology,
and Reid Lifset
of the Center
for
Industrial
Ecology
at the School
of
Forestry
& Environmental Studies
at Yale
University
will serve as co-editors of the special issue.
The
Journal
of Industrial Ecology is
an international peer-reviewed bimonthly, owned by
Yale University, headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies and published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Support for this
special issue is provided by Nestle Waters North America.
Suggested Topics for the
Special Issue
The goal of this
special issue is to examine how EPR has been implemented, its
efficiency and
effectiveness, new developments in its use and application and its
future.
Appropriate topics include
Reviews
of relevant recent books and reports, including policy documents, are
also
sought to enrich the special issue. Reviews of web sites and electronic
services will also be considered.
Ancillary
data relevant to articles can be posted on the journal's web site in
the form
of supporting information.
The special issue is intended
to be relevant to diverse audiences—academics, policymakers, business
people
and environmental advocates—and submissions should be written with that
in
mind. Articles from technical specialists
should make the implications of their research accessible to
non-specialists. Non-academic
contributors should keep in mind that the Journal
of Industrial Ecology
is a scholarly
publication and all
submissions will be expected to follow the norms, tone and practices of
academic publishing. Please see the guide for non-academic authors at www.yale.edu/jie/guide4nonacademics.html
or contact the editor with any questions about
the fit
of a contribution for this issue.
Industrial Ecology
Industrial ecology is an
emerging field that examines local, regional, and global uses and flows
of
materials and energy in products, processes, industrial sectors and
economies.
It focuses on the potential role of industry in reducing environmental
burdens
throughout the product life cycle and encompasses:
Manuscripts should be
original,
previously unpublished, in English, and between 3,500 and 7,000 words
in
length including references. Submission implies that the manuscript has
not been submitted
for
publication elsewhere and that it will not be submitted elsewhere
while
the review process is underway. All
submissions will
be reviewed according to the Journal's standard single-blind peer
review
process using at least two reviewers. Provide a list of 5 recommended
reviewers and a list of any
potential
reviewers that you would prefer that we not use (e.g., with conflict of
interest). Papers should be submitted electronically via ScholarOne
Manuscripts
(formerly called Manuscript Central) at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jie. Please
indicate that this
is a submission for the "EPR" issue on the author checklist
during the submission process. Details about the preparation of the
manuscript
can be obtained from the Journal's Web page or from the
editor.
Send inquiries to:
Reid Lifset
Editor,
Journal
of Industrial Ecology
Yale
University
School
of
Forestry
&
Environmental
Studies
205
Prospect
Street
New
Haven,
CT,
06511-2189
USA
indecol@yale.edu
www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jie
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