Engineering for Sustainability

by Jonker; Harmsen

• ISBN13: 9780444538468
• ISBN10: 0444538461
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-04
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

This book provides engineers with the necessary information to design sustainable processes, products and value chains. It describes the current consensus on sustainable development for four context levels: Planet, Society, Business, and Engineers. It also presents all required design steps: from problem definition, via synthesis of potential solutions, analysis of solutions, improvements to the final solution evaluation. For each design step, methods and guidelines are provided in relation to the goal of obtaining a sustainable solution; a solution that meets both the needs of people and all specific context constraints with regard to the planet and prosperity. Provides information on the current consensus on sustainable development for four context levels: Planet, Society, Business and Engineers Offers guidelines for analyzing problems and identifying the best solution for each problem as applicable to a specific situation Provides clear design procedures for implementation of a particular solution Helps engineers to come up with profitable designs which meet environmental constraints Presents the information that engineers need to meet energy, water, food, health, and other basic human needs

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
About the Authors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Role of Engineers	p. 2
Exploring Sustainability	p. 3
Overview of Making a Sustainable Design	p. 11
Setting up a Design Assignment	p. 15
Challenges for a Sustainable Design	p. 17
Design Process as Team work	p. 24
Setting Goal and Scope	p. 27
Sustainability Constraints	p. 30
Structuring the Sustainability Context	p. 35
Background of Context Levels	p. 36
Context Level Planet	p. 37
Context Level Society	p. 44
Context Level Business	p. 48
Context Level Engineers	p. 55
Creating Design Solutions	p. 61
Design Synthesis	p. 63
Preliminary Solutions Assessment	p. 68
Quick Scan Life Cycle Assessment	p. 69
Evaluation of the Design	p. 76
Acquiring Sustainable Design Competences	p. 83
Teaching Sustainable Development	p. 83
Sustainability Complexity Transferred into Design Competences	p. 84
Hints on Acquiring Key Competences	p. 87
References	p. 97
Index	p. 105
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