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Responsible Manufacturing Has Become An Obligation To The Environment And To Society Itself, Enforced Primarily By Customer Perspective And Governmental Regulations. This New Book Provides A Foundation For Academicians Interested In This Area And Will Also Help Practitioners Understand How Strategic Planning Issues Can Be Approached Or Modelled Using A Quantitative Solution Methodology In A Decision-making Situation. The Solutions Are Developed Using Popular Industrial Engineering And Operations Research Techniques From Integer Programming, Simulation Modeling, Queueing Theory, Goal Programming, Linear Physical Programming, Material Requirements Planning, And Analytical Hierarchy Process-- Responsible Textile Design And Manufacturing: Environmentally Conscious Material Selection / Ece Kalayci, Ozan Avinc, Arzu Yavas And Semih Coskun -- An Integrated Design For Remanufacturing Approach / Mehmet Ali Ilgin -- Effects Of Product Designs On End-of-life Product Recovery Under Uncertainty / Aditi D. Joshi And Surendra M. Gupta -- Integrated Forward-reverse Logistics Network Design: An Application On The Electrolytic Copper Conductor Reel Distribution / Olcay Polat, Ömer Faruk Ünal, Leyla Özgür Polat And Askiner Güngör -- A Holistic Grey-mcdm Approach For Green Supplier Elicitation In Responsible Manufacturing / Gazi Murat Duman, Elif Kongar, Surendra M. Gupta -- Categorical And Mathematical Comparisons Of Assembly And Disassembly Lines / Seamus M. Mcgovern And Surendra M. Gupta -- Environmentally Friendly And Economical Disassembly Parts Selection For Material Recycling By Goal Programming / Yuki Kinoshita, Tetsuo Yamada And Surendra M. Gupta -- Modelling Uncertainty In Remanufacturing / Aybek Korugan -- Impact Of Buffer Size And Remanufacturing Uncertainties On The Hybrid System Performance Measures / H. Kivanç Aksoy And Surendra M. Gupta -- A Manufacturing-remanufacturing System With Cannibalization And Market Expansion Effects / Aya Ishigaki, Tetsuo Yamada And S