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Books

2011

Verghese, K., Lewis, H., Fitzpatrick, L (editors) (in press 2011) Packaging for Sustainability, Springer London

2009

Horne, R, Grant, T and Verghese, K (2009) Life Cycle Assessment: Principles, Practice and Prospects. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.

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Book chapters

2011

Verghese, K., Lockrey, S., Clune, S., Sivaraman, D (in press 2011) Life cycle assessment of food and beverage packaging. In Innovative and sustainable food and beverage packaging, editor by Professor Kit (Keith) L Yam, Woodhead Publishing, London

Fitzpatrick, L., Verghese, K., Lewis, H (in press 2011) Developing the strategy, In Packaging for Sustainability, editors: Verghese, K., Lewis, H and Fitzpatrick, L., Springer London

Verghese, K., and Carre, A (in press 2011) Applying Life cycle assessment, In Packaging for Sustainability, editors: Verghese, K., Lewis, H and Fitzpatrick, L., Springer London

Verghese, K., Crossin, E., and Jollands, M (in press 2011) Selecting materials, In Packaging for Sustainability, editors: Verghese, K., Lewis, H and Fitzpatrick, L., Springer London

Verghese, K., and Lockrey, S (in press 2011) Selecting and applying tools, In Packaging for Sustainability, editors: Verghese, K., Lewis, H and Fitzpatrick, L., Springer Lond

Fitzpatrick, L., Lewis, H and Verghese, K (in press 2011) Implementing the strategy, In Packaging for Sustainability, editors: Verghese, K., Lewis, H and Fitzpatrick, L., Springer London

2009

Horne, R and Verghese, K (2009) Accelerating life cycle assessment uptake: Life cycle management and quick LCA tools in Life cycle assessment: Principles, practice and prospects (Horne, RE., Grant, T., Verghese, K.,) (editors) CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood

Horne, R. Grant, T. and Verghese, K. (2009), 'Prospects for life cycle assessment development and practice in the quest for sustainable consumption', in Life Cycle Assessment: Principles, Practice and Prospects, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Victoria

Verghese, K (2009) Life cycle assessment in Life cycle assessment: Principles, practice and prospects (Horne, RE., Grant, T., Verghese, K.,) (editors) CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood

Verghese, K., Grant, T and Horne, R (2009) The development of life cycle assessment methods and applications in Life cycle assessment: Principles, practice and prospects (Horne, RE., Grant, T., Verghese, K.,) (editors) CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood

2008

Verghese, K (2008) Environmental assessment of food packaging and advanced methods to choose the correct material, in Environmentally-compatible food packaging, editor Emo Chiellini, Woodhead Publishing, UK

Ciroth, A., Verghese, K., Trescher, C (2008) A survey of current life cycle costing studies, In Environmental Life Cycle Costing. Hunkler, D., Lichtenvort, K and Rebitzer, R (editors), the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and CRC Press, Pensacola, Florida.

Ciroth, C., Gensch, C., Gunther, E., Hoppe, H., Hunkler, D., Huppes, G., Lichtenvort, K., Ludvig, K., Notarnicola, B., Pelzeter, A., Prox, M., Rebitzer, G., Rudenauer, I and Verghese, K (2008) Life cycle costing case studies. In Environmental Life Cycle Costing. Hunkler, D., Lichtenvort, K and Rebitzer, R (editors), the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and CRC Press, Pensacola, Florida.

2005

James, K., Fitzpatrick, L., Lewis, H., and Sonneveld, K. (2005) Sustainable Packaging System Development. In Handbook of Sustainability Research. Leal Filho, W. (ed), Peter Lang Scientific Publishing, Frankfurt.

Burritt, R., Lewis, H., and James, K., (2005) Analysing the Effectiveness of an Environmental Voluntary Agreement: The Case of the Australia National Packaging Covenant, In The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements. Design, Implementation and Evaluation Issues, Croci, E., (ed), Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

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Peer reviewed journal articles

2011

Lockrey, S (2011) The Ecocraze, a Case Study: Negotiating a Greener Product Design Landscape, Design Principles and Practices, an International Journal. Volume 5. Common Ground, Champaign, Illinois, USA. (the reference is ISSN: 1833-1874)

2010

Clune, S. (2010). Design for Behavioural Change. Journal of Design Strategies vol. 4, spring, pp.68-75

Verghese, K., Horne, R., Carre, A (2010) PIQET: the design and development of an online *streamlined* LCA tool for sustainable packaging design decision support, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment,Vol 15, No 6, p 608-620

Lewis, H., Verghese, K., Fitzpatrick, L (2010) Evaluating the sustainability impacts of packaging: the plastic carry bag dilemma, Packaging Technology and Science, Vol 23, Issue 3, p 145-160

2008

Verghese, K., Lewis, H and Burritt, R (2008) Sustainable Packaging and Sustainability Accounting: Exploring Links and Synergies Journal of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Accountability, Vol 14, No. 3, September, School of Commerce, Division of Business, University of South Australia (ISSN 1442-1224).

2007

Verghese, Karli and Lewis, Helen (2007) Environmental innovation in industrial packaging - a supply chain approach, International Journal of Production Research; Sep 2007, Vol. 45 Issue 18/19, p4381-4401, 21p

Verghese, Karli and Hes, Dominique (2007) Qualitative and quantitative tool development to support design decisions, Journal of Cleaner Production; May 2007, Vol. 15 Issue 8/9, p814-818, 5p

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Peer reviewed conference papers

2008

Verghese, K., Jollands, M., and Allan, K (2008) The Litterability of Plastic Bags: Key Design Criteria, Peer reviewed paper presented at the 2008 Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC), Society of Plastics Engineers, Plastic Environmental Division, 11-12 March, Orlando, Florida

Majumdar, J., Verghese, K., and Fitzpatrick, L (2008) PIQET: A Life Cycle Management Tool for Sustainable Plastics Packaging. Peer reviewed paper presented at the 2008 Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC), Society of Plastics Engineers, Plastic Environmental Division, 11-12 March, Orlando, Florida

2006

Verghese, Karli., Horne, Ralph., Fitzpatrick, Leanne and Jordan, Robert (2006) PIQET - A packaging decision support tool, Peer reviewed paper to the 5th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment - Achieving business benefits for managing life cycle impacts, Langham Hotel, Melbourne 22-24 November.

Slatter, Jennie and Verghese, Karli (2006) Using Life Cycle Assessment to meet your obligations under the National Packaging Covenant, Peer reviewed paper to the 5th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment - Achieving business benefits for managing life cycle impacts, Langham Hotel, Melbourne 22-24 November.

2005

Horne, Ralph., Fitzpatrick, Leanne., James, Karli., Jordan, Robert., and Sonneveld, Kees (2005) Developing PIQET© - a credible evaluation tool to enable sustainable packaging development, Peer reviewed paper to the 6th Asia-Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Melbourne (October)

James, K., Vockler, R., Vandestadt (2005) The Orica Consumer Products Story of Using Life Cycle Assessment and The Natural Step. (Editors James, K and Grant, T), Peer reviewed paper presented at the 4th Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference - Sustainability Measures for Decision Support, February, Sydney, Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ISBN: 0-9757231-0-3).

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Other resources

Videos

"The Ecocraze, a case study: negotiating a Greener Product Design Landscape"

"VEA - Design and the Environment"

"Design Droplets": Simon Lockrey and Stephen Clune, from the Sustainable Products and Packaging group, were interviewed by Design Droplets mid 2010, an industrial design magazine for Asia Pacific.

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