Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering United States Edition
Auteurs : Graedel T. E., Allenby Braden
The first text available devoted completely to industrial ecology/green engineering, this introduction provides everything instructors need to teach a successful course?including visuals?in one source. The authors use industrial ecology principles and cases to ground the discussion of sustainable engineering, and thus offer practical and reasonable approaches to an otherwise difficult and sometimes otherworldly subject.
1. TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
1.1 An integrated system
1.2 The tragedy of the commons
1.3 The master equation
1.4 Technological evolution
1.5 Addressing the challenge
Further Reading
2. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS
2.1 From contemporaneous thinking to forward thinking
2.2 The greening of engineering
2.3 Linking industrial activity with environmental and social sciences
2.4 The challenge of quantification and rigor
2.5 Key questions of industrial ecology and sustainable engineering
2.6 An overview of this book
Further Reading
PART II. FRAMEWORK TOPICS
3. THE RELEVANCE OF BIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY
3.1 Considering the analogy
3.2 Biological and industrial organisms
3.3 Biological and industrial ecosystems
3.4 Engineering by biological and industrial organisms
3.5 Evolution
3.6 The utility of the ecological approach
Further Reading
4. METABOLIC ANALYSIS
4.1 The concept of metabolism
4.2 Metabolisms of biological organisms
4.3 Metabolisms of industrial organisms
4.4 The utility of metabolic analysis
Further Reading
5. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND EVOLVING RISK
5.1 Historical patterns in technological evolution
5.2 Approaches to risk
5.3 Risk assessment
5.4 Risk communication
5.5 Risk management
Further Reading
6. THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
6.1 Framing industrial ecology and sustainable engineering within society
6.2 Cultural constructs and temporal scales
6.3 Social ecology
6.4 Consumption
6.5 Government and governance
6.6 Legal and ethical concerns
6.7 Economics and industrial ecology
• Methods to better incorporate concerns about environmental and social issues into design decisions–from the level of products and manufacturing processes to factories and material flow systems–are discussed.
• A complete suite of homework problems is included.
• A set of vugraphs enables professors to present from the start a sophisticated, self-contained course that is of high interest to environmental science, environmental policy, and engineering schools of all types.
Date de parution : 11-2009
Ouvrage de 450 p.
18x23.6 cm
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