Manuele Margni is associate professor at the Mathematical and Industrial Engineering department at Polytechnique Montréal. He is co-chair holder of the International Life Cycle Chair, a research unit of CIRAIG. His research activities aim to develop life cycle based tools to support sustainable production and consumption with a focus on the assessment of life cycle impacts, risks and benefits related to existing and new product systems. He co-developed USETox ([...] a model based on scientific consensus for characterizing human and ecotoxicological impacts of chemical emissions, the life cycle impact assessment methodology IMPACT 2002+ and its update IMPACT World+. He's teaching environmental modeling of toxic emissions, life cycle assessment and sustainable manufacturing classes. Parallel to his research activities Manuele gained a considerable experience working together with industry co-founding two companies: Ecointesys and Quanis, this latter being a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Inst

itute of Technology, where he still retain a key advisory role.

Part I: Introducing Life Cycle Management.- Introduction: Life Cycle Management.- Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice.- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize Sustainability Within Organizations.- How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business?.- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management .- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level -Different Approaches.- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach.- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice.- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business.- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner.- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships.- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management.- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies.- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action.- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain.- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation.- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management.- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting.- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management.- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil.- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.-Communication and Collaboration as Essential Elements for Mainstreaming Life Cycle Management.-Part V: Implementation and Case Studies of Life Cycle Management in Different Business and Industry Sector.-Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Management in the Electricity Sector.- Life Cycle Management Applied to Urban Fabric Planning.- Implementing Life Cycle Engineering in Automotive Development as a Helpful Management Tool to Support Design for Environment.- Managing Life cycle Sustainability Aspects in the Automotive Industry.- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize the Creating Shared Value Concept in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study.