1. Describe the possible value of financial measures of environmental performance. Give several examples.
2. What are the environmentally important life-cycle stages of a product?
3. Define the three steps of life-cycle assessment.
4. How can life-cycle costing improve life-cycle assessment?
5. What is the justification for adding an environmental perspective to the Balanced Scorecard?
6. What are the five core objectives of the environmental perspective?
7. Why is minimizing the use of raw materials an environmental issue?
8. What are some possible performance measures for the objective of minimizing the release of residues?
9. All environmental failure activities are non-value-added activities. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
10. What is the meaning of design for the environment? What is its role in activity-based management of environmental activities?