Essays about: "Product Longevity"

Showing result 21 - 24 of 24 essays containing the words Product Longevity.

  1. 21. Market-consistent valuation of a pension product with guarantee in line with Solvency II : An applied case study to improve knowledge about how rationality and stressed conditions with respect to market- and insurance risk will impact the balance sheet.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik

    Author : Isak Berg; Richard Stadig; [2016]
    Keywords : Risk management; Insurance; Best estimate; Valuation;

    Abstract : Traditional pension products have today been replaced by products that are linked directly to the unit value of some kind of investment portfolio. These products contribute to more vulnerable situations for insurance companies in terms of uncertainties of future obligations. READ MORE

  3. 22. Hopping on the Service Bandwagon Towards a Circular Economy - Consumer Acceptance of Product-Service Systems for Home Furniture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Ronja Lidenhammar; [2015]
    Keywords : Sustainable Consumption; Consumer Behaviour; Product Service Systems; Business and Economics; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Product Service Systems offer companies the possibility to reduce environmental impacts by diminishing resource consumption, raw material extraction and waste generation. The concept focuses on a system of products, services and supporting networks with the aim of transitioning from selling the benefits of a product rather than the actual product. READ MORE

  4. 23. A comparison of two methods to reduce internal phosphorus cycling in lakes: aluminium versus phoslock

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment

    Author : Natàlia Blázquez Pallí; [2015]
    Keywords : aluminium; phoslock; phosphorus; lake; restoration; adsorption; treatment;

    Abstract : Sediment nutrient inactivation through P binding agents is one of the most common management strategies used to prevent potential P release to lake water. Al-based compounds (aluminium sulphate, Al2(SO4)3·18(H2O)) and a modified lanthanum-based clay material called Phoslock are among the products that can be used to chemically bind P permanently in sediment. READ MORE

  5. 24. Practical steps for a transition from "historical" to "future" waste systems Individual producer responsibility for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Lloyd Hicks; [2004]
    Keywords : Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive; WEEE; clearinghouse; end-of-life costs; Environmental studies; Miljöstudier; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive of the European Commission places the responsibility on producers to finance collection and treatment of waste deposited at collection facilities after 13 August 2005, on a collective or individual basis. For "historic" waste, put on the market before this date, producers are responsible for a proportion of their respective share of the market by type of equipment. READ MORE