Sustainability in Project Management

Sustainability in thrust ManagementThis review discusses the journal sustainable Project tone steering wheel Management the need to integrate flavortime make passs in the manufacturing sector (2005) authored by Labuschagne and Brent. The theme of this paper is that incorporating the current give steering methodologies with the principles of sustainable instruction requires comprehensive understanding and integration of different life bouts.1 This journal leads a good introduction of life cycle management however, the authors do not make holistic aspect on the aspects of sustainability in project management.At the outset of the paper, the authors note that the social, economic, and environmental affects of a project long afterwards its completion bring required increasing attention the project life cycle management principles thus require revision. However, reasons for the consideration to life cycles when reorient sustainability with project management has not been sp ecified. According to Azapagic (2004), people may circumstantially aggravate the impacts when trying to alleviate them. Therefore, protecting the environment without increasing burdens fire only be assured by adopting a systems climax ground on life cycle thinking which takes the whole life cycle of an activity into account.23Labuschagne and Brent (2005) have focused on defining motley life cycles, yet the descriptions of the proposed impact estimation indications on the three master(prenominal) sustainability dimensions are only briefly stated which causes the concept rather vague. In 2005, Brent and Visser demonstrated an environmental performance choice impact indicator (EPRII) calculation procedure by introducing the life cycle impact estimation (LCIA) framework for comparing burdens at operational level.4 The approach evaluated impacts in quaternion different resource groups including water, air, land, and mined abiotic resources5 based on three surgical procedure p arameters comprising water and energy usage, and waste produced.4 Research regarding the social sustainability dimension has as well been executed subsequently. All the social criteria and its sub-criteria were verified with respect to project management and business67, but particular impacts were found to be more significant in certain appraised asset or engineering life cycle phases. The EPRII approach was used as a basis to calculate the social impact indicators however, results appeared to be unreliable and the method was hence concluded to be not applicable for decision-making purposes at the moment due to the lack of social project and footprint breeding (Labuschagne and Brent, 2008 Labuschagne and Brent, 2006).78Despite its defect, this paper is a well organise piece of work which utilizes a large number of diagrams and tables. Koedinger (1992) explained that diagrammatic imitation outperforms sentential expression due to its use of location to group information which fac ilitates search and avoids the need of symbolic labels and also encourages perceptual inferences.9 This consequently enables readers to have a better understanding of the concept.In conclusion, although this journal does not provide a holistic overview of sustainability in project management, its detailed descriptions of various life cycles and their interactions in projects have provided an explicit concept of project life cycle management. Moreover, a considerable amount of literature review has been carried out in this article it therefore deserves to be widely read.ReferencesLabuschagne, C. and Brent, A.C. (2005), Sustainable Project Life roulette wheel Management the need to integrate life cycles in the manufacturing sector, world-wide ledger of Project Management, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 159-168, Azapagic, A. 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