Sustainable development in practice: case studies for engineers and scientists

INDICE: About the editors. List of contributors. Preface. Part I. Chapter 1: The Concept of Sustainable Development and its Practical Implications (Slobodan Perdan). Chapter 2: Measuring Sustainable Development: An Overview (Slobodan Perdan and Adisa Azapagic). Chapter 3: Assessing Environmental Sustainability: Life Cycle Thinking and Life Cycle Assessment (Adisa Azapagic). Part II. Chapter 4: Translating the Principles of Sustainable Development into Business Practice: An Application in the Mining and Minerals Sector (Adisa Azapagic andSlobodan Perdan) Chapter 5: Climate Change and Policy: The Case of Germany (Wolfram Krewitt and Hans Müller-Steinhagen) Chapter 6: Sustainability Assessment of Biofuels (Adisa Azapagic and Heinz Stichnothe) Chapter 7: Scenario Building and Uncertainties: Options for Energy Sources (Richard Darton) Chapter 8: Fuel Cells in Stationary Applications: Energy for the Future? (Martin Pehnt) Chapter 9: Sustainability of Nuclear Power (Adisa Azapagic and Slobodan Perdan) Chapter 10: Municipal Solid Waste Management: Recovering Energy from Waste (Adisa Azapagic) Chapter 11: Sustainability issues in food provisioning systems (Adisa Azapagic, Heinz Stichnothe and Namy Espinoza-Orias) Chapter 12: Providing Sustainable Sanitation (Richard Fenner and Amparo Flores) Chapter 13: Sustainable Process Design (Adisa Azapagic) Chapter 14: Urban Sustainability: The Case of Transport (Slobodan Perdan and Adisa Azapagic) Chapter 15: Aviation and its Response to Environmental Pressure (Alice Bows & Kevin Anderson) Chapter 16: Health Impact Assessment of Urban Pollution (Zaid Chalabi and Tony Fletcher) Chapter 17: Social and Ethical Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Miningin Kakadu National Park (Slobodan Perdan).

• ISBN: 978-0-470-71872-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 521
• Fecha Publicación: 28/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés