Technological Choices for Sustainability

Framing the Issue of Sustainability.- Science and Sustainability: who knows best?.- Sustainability: Ecological, Social, Economic, Technological, and Systems Perspectives.- US EPA/Academia Collaboration for a Green Engineering Textbook For Chemical Engineering.- Innovative Industrial Ecology Education Can Guide Us to Sustainable Paths.- The sustainable industrial development: reality and vision.- Sustainable Pathways.- Clean technologies for wastewater management in seafood canning industries.- Kinetic Analysis of Aerobic Composting of Tobacco Industry Solid Waste.- Preventative Measures in Production from the Point of Sustainability.- Environmetric strategies to classify, interpret and model risk assessment and quality of environmental systems.- Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs.- An Integrated Computer Aided System for Generation and Evaluation of Sustainable Process Alternatives.- Pollution prevention and environmental management systems - tools to obtain a sustainable development.- Sustainability Metrics.- Technology sensitive indicators of sustainability.- Metrics for supply chain sustainability.- Quantifying technological aspects of process sustainability: a thermodynamic approach.- Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Sustainability - The Sustainable Economy Indices.- Environment as a factor of national competitiveness in manufacturing.- Indicators for sustainable energy development from a negentropic perspective.- Sustainability indicators for anticipating the fickleness of human-environmental interaction.- Measuring Sustainability - Index of Balanced Sustainable Development.- Evaluating the Environmental Friendliness, Economics and Energy Efficiency of Chemical Processes: Heat Integration.- Eco-efficiency reportingexemplified by case studies.- Interpolation for creating hydrogeological models.- Indicators of Sustainable Production.- Remote Sensing as a Tool for Achieving and Monitoring Progress Toward Sustainability.- Summary of Panel Discussions.

From the reviews:

"This book encompasses three main topics: Framing the Issue of Sustainability, Sustainable Pathways and Sustainable Metrics. ... This book should serve as a resource for science-based knowledge for future researchers and policy-makers, and as a catalyst for collaboration among interested experts from various disciplines. In this sense, the effort of this book may indeed be significant." (Giancarlo Barbiroli, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, July, 2006)