Technological Choices for Sustainability

by Sikdar, Subhas K.; Glavic, Peter; Jain, Ravi

• ISBN13: 9783540211310
• ISBN10: 3540211314
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-27
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The objective of the book is to critically evaluate current scientific work on defining the issue of sustainability and on measuring progress towards a sustainable state. It aims to provide a common understanding of how progress towards sustainability can be achieved by optimising technological development, environmental impact and socio-economic factors. A further objective is to identify the major trends in methodologies that assist progress towards sustainability.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Editors	vii
List of Contributing Authors	xi
Table of Contents	xvii
Introduction	1	(4)
FRAMING THE ISSUE OF SUSTAINABILITY	5	(96)
Science and Sustainability: who knows best?
Neil Winterton	7	(30)
Sustainability: Ecological, Social, Economic, Technological, and Systems Perspectives
H. Cabezas, C. W. Pawlowski, A.L. Mayer and N.T. Hoagland	37	(28)
US EPA/Academia Collaboration for a Green Engineering Textbook For Chemical Engineering
D.R. Shonnard, D. T. Allen, S. Austin, N. Nguyen	65	(12)
Innovative Industrial Ecology Education Can Guide Us to Sustainable Paths
Kristan Cockerill	77	(14)
The sustainable industrial development: reality and vision
Jurgis Staniskis, Valdas Arbaciauskas	91	(10)
SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS	101	(126)
Clean technologies for wastewater management in seafood canning industries
F. Omil, E. Garcia-Sandá, R. Méndez, J.M. Lema	103	(24)
Kinetic Analysis of Aerobic Composting of Tobacco Industry Solid Waste
F. Briški, N. Horgas, M. Vukovic, Z. Gomzi	127	(12)
Preventative Measures in Production from the Point of Sustainability
Anna Christianova	139	(8)
Environmetric strategies to classify, interpret and model risk assessment and quality of environmental systems
Vasil Simeonov	147	(18)
Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs
Minh Ha-Duong, David W. Keith	165	(18)
An Integrated Computer Aided System for Generation and Evaluation of Sustainable Process Alternatives
Niels Jensen, Nuria Coll, Rafiqul Gani	183	(32)
Pollution prevention and environmental management systems - tools to obtain a sustainable development
Victor Teodor Petcu Nitica, Vladimir Gheorghievici	215	(12)
SUSTAINABILITY METRICS	227	(202)
Technology sensitive indicators of sustainability
Andrzej Wasiak	229	(10)
Metrics for supply chain sustainability
Roland Clift	239	(16)
Quantifying technological aspects of process sustainability: a thermodynamic approach
S. Lems, H.J. van der Kooi, J. de Swaan Arons	255	(12)
Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Sustainability - The Sustainable Economy Indices
Jochen Gassner	267	(16)
Environment as a factor of national competitiveness in manufacturing
Bojan Radej, Ivanka Zakotnik	283	(22)
Indicators for sustainable energy development from a negentropic perspective
Jordan Pop-Jordanov	305	(12)
Sustainability indicators for anticipating the fickleness of human-environmental interaction
Janne Hukkinen	317	(18)
Measuring Sustainability - Index of Balanced Sustainable Development
Janko Seljak, Damjan Krajnc, Peter Glavic	335	(20)
Evaluating the Environmental Friendliness, Economics and Energy Efficiency of Chemical Processes: Heat Integration
T.M. Mata, R.L. Smith, D.M. Young, C.A.V. Costa	355	(16)
Teo-efficiency reporting exemplified by case studies
Annik Magerholm Fet	371	(16)
Interpolation for creating hydrogeological models
A. Spalvins, J. Slangens, R. Janbickis, I. Lace	387	(8)
Indicators of Sustainable Production
Damjan Krajnc, Peter Glavic	395	(20)
Remote Sensing as a Tool for Achieving and Monitoring Progress Toward Sustainability
G.L. Rochon, C.J. Johannsen, D.A. Landgrebe, B. Engel, J.M. Harbor, S. Majumder, L.L. Biehl	415	(14)
SUMMARY OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS	429	(8)
Subject Index	437