Subhas K. Sikdar,
Peter Glavic,
Ravi Jain
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2004e druk, 2004
9783540211310
Technological Choices for Sustainability
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Gebonden, 444 blz.
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Engels
Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
2004e druk, 2004
ISBN13: 9783540211310
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Samenvatting
This book offers a critical evaluation of current scientific work on defining the issue of sustainability and on measuring progress towards a sustainable state. It aims to provide a common understanding of how progress towards sustainability can be achieved by optimising technological development, environmental impact and socio-economic factors. A further objective is to identify the major trends in methodologies that assist progress towards sustainability.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9783540211310
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:444
Uitgever:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Druk:2004
Inhoudsopgave
Framing the Issue of Sustainability.- Science and Sustainability: who knows best?.- Sustainability: Ecological, Social, Economic, Technological, and Systems Perspectives.- US EPA/Academia Collaboration for a Green Engineering Textbook For Chemical Engineering.- Innovative Industrial Ecology Education Can Guide Us to Sustainable Paths.- The sustainable industrial development: reality and vision.- Sustainable Pathways.- Clean technologies for wastewater management in seafood canning industries.- Kinetic Analysis of Aerobic Composting of Tobacco Industry Solid Waste.- Preventative Measures in Production from the Point of Sustainability.- Environmetric strategies to classify, interpret and model risk assessment and quality of environmental systems.- Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs.- An Integrated Computer Aided System for Generation and Evaluation of Sustainable Process Alternatives.- Pollution prevention and environmental management systems — tools to obtain a sustainable development.- Sustainability Metrics.- Technology sensitive indicators of sustainability.- Metrics for supply chain sustainability.- Quantifying technological aspects of process sustainability: a thermodynamic approach.- Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Sustainability — The Sustainable Economy Indices.- Environment as a factor of national competitiveness in manufacturing.- Indicators for sustainable energy development from a negentropic perspective.- Sustainability indicators for anticipating the fickleness of human-environmental interaction.- Measuring Sustainability — Index of Balanced Sustainable Development.- Evaluating the Environmental Friendliness, Economics and Energy Efficiency of Chemical Processes: Heat Integration.- Eco-efficiency reporting exemplified by case studies.- Interpolation for creating hydrogeological models.- Indicators of Sustainable Production.- Remote Sensing as a Tool for Achieving and Monitoring Progress Toward Sustainability.- Summary of Panel Discussions.