Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering /

Graedel, T. E.

Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering / T.E. Graedel, B.R. Allenby. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2010. - xix, 403 p. : il. ; 24 cm.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Technology and sustainability -- Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering concepts -- The relevance of biological ecology to technology -- Metabolic analysis -- Technological change and evolving risk -- The social dimensions of industrial ecology -- The concept of sustainability -- Sustainable engineering -- Industrial product development -- Design for environment and for sustainability -- An introduction to life-cycle assessment (LCA) -- The LCA impact and interpretation stages -- Streamlining the LCA process -- Systems analysis -- Industrial ecosystems -- Material flow analysis -- National material accounts -- Water and industrial ecology -- Urban industrial ecology -- Modeling in industrial ecology -- Scenarios for industrial ecology -- The status of resources -- Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering in developing countries -- Industrial ecology and sustainability in the corporation -- Industrial ecology and sustainability in government and society -- Looking to the future.

9780136008064 (alk. paper) 0136008062 (alk. paper) 9780138140342 (pbk., intl. ed.) 0138140340 (pbk., intl. ed.)

2009029798


Industrial ecology.
Sustainable engineering.

TS161 / G73 2010

658.4/08

Con tecnología Koha