Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering / Edition 1

by T. E. Graedel

Overview

This text is devoted 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900136008063
Publication date:	09/23/2009
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Braden R. Allenby is currently Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, having moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. He is also a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginias Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University in 1972, his J. D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992.

Table of Contents

• PART I. INTRODUCING THE FIELD
• 1. TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
• 2. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS
• PART II. FRAMEWORK TOPICS
• 3. THE RELEVANCE OF BIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY
• 4. METABOLIC ANALYSIS
• 5. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND EVOLVING RISK
• 6. THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• 7. THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY
• PART III. IMPLEMENTATION
• 8. SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
• 9. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
• 10. DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENT AND FOR SUSTAINABILITY
• 11. AN INTRODUCTION TO LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT
• 12. THE LCA IMPACT AND INTERPRETATION STAGES
• 13. STREAMLINING THE LCA PROCESS
• 14. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
• 15. INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
• 16. MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS
• 17. NATIONAL MATERIAL ACCOUNTS
• 18. ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• 19. WATER AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• 20. URBAN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• 21. MODELING IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• PART V. THINKING AHEAD
• 22. SCENARIOS FOR INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• 23. THE STATUS OF RESOURCES
• 24. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
• 25. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE CORPORATION
• 26. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
• 27. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
• APPENDICES
• UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
• SLCA GUIDELINES
• GLOSSARY
• INDEX