The Carbon Footprint Handbook (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Thorough and detailed with contributions from an international group of experts, this handbook covers all areas of carbon footprint, including the scientific elements, methodological and technological aspects, standards, industrial case studies, and communication of carbon footprint results. It uses research and case studies from around the world including China, India, Spain, and Latin America, demonstrating that the problems of carbon footprint are indeed worldwide and how they can be addressed in myriad areas of life, from industrial to personal action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 551
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482262230
• Artikelnr.: 43822442

Autorenporträt

Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, PhD, currently works for SGS as a global sustainability consultant, based in Hong Kong. He earned his doctorate from the Institute of Textiles and Clothing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, testing, and sustainability evaluation of textiles and clothing materials. He has conducted many carbon footprint assessments of various products produced from various countries across the globe. He has more than 75 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals, 10 chapters in books, about 21 books, numerous conference publications, and holds two patents. He is an editor, editorial board member, and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals on textiles and environmental science disciplines as well as editor-in-chief of Textiles and Clothing Sustainability Journal, an open access journal of Springer. He is also the series editor of two book series of Springer: Textile Science and Clothing Technology and Environmental Footprints and Eco-design.

Inhaltsangabe

METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CARBON FOOTPRINT. The Science of Carbon Footprint
Assessment. Challenges and Merits of Choosing Alternative Functional Units.
Methodology for Carbon Footprint Calculation in Crop and Livestock
Production. End of Life Scenarios and Carbon Footprint of Wood Cladding.
Carbon Footprints and Greenhouse Gas Emission Savings of Alternative
Synthetic Biofuels. Issues in Making Food Production GHG Efficient:
Challenges before Carbon Footprinting. Modeling Carbon Footprint of
Wood-Based Products and Buildings. Applications of Carbon Footprint in
Urban Planning and Geography. MODELING ASPECTS OF CARBON FOOTPRINT.
Quantifying Spatial-Temporal Variability of Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in
Urban Soils: From Local Monitoring to Regional Modeling. Urban Carbon
Footprint Evaluation of a Central Chinese City: The Case of Zhengzhou City.
Carbon Footprint Estimation from Building Sector in India. The Carbon
Footprint of Dwelling Construction in Spain. Carbon Footprint: Calculations
and Sensitivity Analysis for Cow Milk Produce in Flanders, a Belgian
Region. Digitizing the Assessment of Embodied Energy and Carbon Footprint
of Buildings Using Emerging Building Information Modeling. CARBON FOOTPRINT
ASSESSMENT-CASE STUDIES. Product Carbon Footprint: Case Study of a Critical
Electronic Part (Subassembly of a Product). GHG Emissions from Municipal
Wastewater Treatment in Latin America. Carbon Footprint of the Operation
and Products of a Restaurant: A Study and Alternative Perspectives.
Cultivation of Microalgae: Implications for the Carbon Footprint of Aqua
and Agriculture Industries. Carbon Footprint of Agricultural Products. The
Carbon Footprint of Sugar Production from Sugarcane in the Philippines. A
Two-Phase Carbon Footprint Management Framework: A Case Study on the
Rockwool Supply Chain. Product Carbon Footprint Estimation of a Ton of
Paper: Case Study of a Paper Production Unit in West Bengal, India. Product
Carbon Footprint Assessment of a Personal Electronic Product-Case Study of
an Electronic Scale.