Technological Choices for Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9783642059346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 444 str.

Subhas K. Sikdar; Peter Glavic; Ravi Jain

Opis

This book was made possible by the exceptional support provided by NATO Sci entific and Environmental Division, University of Maribor (Slovenia), Govern ment of the Republic of Slovenia, British and the United States Embassies (Ljubl jana, the Republic of Slovenia). The authors, as listed in this book, took the time to prepare excellent manu scripts focusing on various issues related to technological choices for sustainabil ity. These manuscripts were rigorously reviewed and refereed by scientists and engineers before inclusion in this book. An introductory chapter was prepared to provide an overview and to integrate technical issues covered in the book. A summary chapter is included at the end that provides a synthesis of panel discus sions related to the three main sections of the book. The editors are most grateful to the contributors, sponsor organizations, and many colleagues who were kind enough to assist us in making this book possible. We are particularly grateful to Damjan Krajnc of the University of Maribor for compiling all the manuscripts in the correct format, creating the index, and assur ing that all the contents are faithfully presented in this volume. Background in formation about the editors and principal authors and contributors to this book fol lows."

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This book encompasses three main topics: Framing the Issue of Sustainability, Sustainable Pathways and Sustainable Metrics. ... This book should serve as a resource for science-based knowledge for future researchers and policy-makers, and as a catalyst for collaboration among interested experts from various disciplines. In this sense, the effort of this book may indeed be significant." (Giancarlo Barbiroli, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, July, 2006)

Spis treści

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.