This comprehensive text takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the challenges of sustainable development and how engineering practice can contribute to assessing and developing solutions. Worked examples, exercises, and applications are included, and software tutorials, lecture slides, and a solutions manual are available online.
This comprehensive text takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the challenges of sustainable development and how engineering practice can contribute to assessing and developing solutions. Worked examples, exercises, and applications are included, and software tutorials, lecture slides, and a solutions manual are available online.
Bhavik R. Bakshi is the Morrow Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU). He also holds appointments in Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at OSU and as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India. He has developed and taught a course on Sustainable Engineering for twenty years at OSU, and shorter versions at institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, McGill University, Montreal, and South China University of Technology.
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Part I. Introduction and Motivation: 1. The basis of human well-being 2. Status of ecosystem goods and services 3. Sustainability: definitions and challenges Part II. Reasons for Unsustainability: 4. Economics and the environment 5. Business and the environment 6. Science, engineering, and the environment 7. Society and the environment Part III. Sustainability Assessment: 8. Goal definition and scope 9. Inventory analysis 10. Mathematical framework 11. Footprint assessment 12. Energy and material flow analysis 13. Exergy analysis 14. Cumulative exergy consumption and emergy analysis 15. Life cycle impact assessment 16. Ecosystem services in sustainability impact assessment Part IV. Solutions for Sustainability: 17. Designing sustainable processes and products 18. Ecosystem ecology 19. Industrial symbiosis and circular economy 20. Ecosystems in engineering 21. Economic policies 22. Societal development.
Part I. Introduction and Motivation: 1. The basis of human well-being 2. Status of ecosystem goods and services 3. Sustainability: definitions and challenges Part II. Reasons for Unsustainability: 4. Economics and the environment 5. Business and the environment 6. Science, engineering, and the environment 7. Society and the environment Part III. Sustainability Assessment: 8. Goal definition and scope 9. Inventory analysis 10. Mathematical framework 11. Footprint assessment 12. Energy and material flow analysis 13. Exergy analysis 14. Cumulative exergy consumption and emergy analysis 15. Life cycle impact assessment 16. Ecosystem services in sustainability impact assessment Part IV. Solutions for Sustainability: 17. Designing sustainable processes and products 18. Ecosystem ecology 19. Industrial symbiosis and circular economy 20. Ecosystems in engineering 21. Economic policies 22. Societal development.
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