Industrial EcologyFor upper level courses in Industrial Ecology. This text addresses the increasing need for knowledge about the interactions between industry and environment with the ultimate goal of sustainability. With in-depth analysis of past, present, and future issues in industrial ecology, this book seeks to meet the needs of the product-design engineers who hold much of the future of industry-environment interactions in their hands, as well as the emerging discipline of "sustainability scientists". |
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The Industrial Ecology Concept | 17 |
THE PHYSICAL BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL FRAMEWORK | 39 |
The Status of Resources | 55 |
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Industrial Ecology T. E. Graedel,Braden R. Allenby,American Telephone and Telegraph Company Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |
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activities alternative amount analysis approach assessment automobile become biological bismuth Chapter characteristics chemical complex components concept concerns consider considerations consumer consumption corporate costs countries cultural cycle diagram difficult disposal economic ecosystem effects efficiency elements emissions energy Engineering environment environmental impacts evaluate example existing extraction facility Figure firms flows Gate given global goal hazardous human implementation important improve increase indicate industrial ecology involved issues lead less limited manufacturing materials matrix metal metrics minimize natural occur operation options organisms packaging performance plastic population possible potential practice present recycling reduce region residues responsible result reuse risk scale shown significant solder sources specific stage steel substantial supply sustainable Table term tion toxicity United waste