Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management: Challenges and Prospects

This open access book includes a selection of contribution of LCM 2019 conference held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, analyze and manage product-related information and activities towards continuous improvement, along the different products life cycle. The selection of case studies presents LCM as a business management approach that can be used by all types of businesses and organizations in order to improve their sustainability performance. This book provides a cross-sectoral, present picture in LCM issues area. This book brings together presentations from the world of science and world of enterprises as well as institutions supporting economic development. The topics are focused on the practical aspects of product life cycle management. The structure of the work is based on five-theme lines. The themes represented different objects and are focused on sustainability and LCM practices mainly related to: products, technologies, organizations, markets and policy issues as well as methodological solutions.