Greg Peters, Magdalena Svanström

Environmental Sustainability for Engineers and Applied Scientists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Connects a qualitative perspective of environmental management with the quantitative skills used by engineering and applied science students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781316617731
• ISBN-10: 1316617734
• Artikelnr.: 53484509

Autorenporträt

Greg Peters is a professor in the Division of Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg, Sweden. Before joining academia, he worked in the urban water sector as a practising environmental engineer. He is the author of many highly cited publications on the quantitative assessment of environmental impacts of water infrastructure, food production, resource consumption and biowaste management. He has served as President of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society and as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Reader's guide: how is this all connected? 1. The engineer's role in environmental protection
2. The Earth system: natural operation and human impacts
3. Impacts of chemical pollution
4. Modelling environmental transport and fate of pollutants
5. Introduction to toxicology
6. Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment
7. Environmental assessment of products and processes
8. Regulatory structures
9. Decision-making
References
Index.