[share_ebook] Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists

Product Details

• Paperback: 458 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (July 23, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470856092

Product Description
This ground-breaking text looks at the ways of integrating sustainability aspects into science and engineering. In providing an all-round sustainability education, it teaches students within engineering and environmental science the implications of their decisions on the environment.

Taking a life cycle approach to address environmental, economic and social issues, it covers areas of fresh water and wastewater, air pollution, solid waste management, design and manufacturing of chemicals, process design and contracting, industrial ecology and energy sources and technologies

• Case study based, with real world and practical examples relevant for developed and developing countries