Sustainable development for engineers : a handbook and resource guide /
"Concise but comprehensive, the book examines the key tools, skills and techniques that can be used in engineering design and management to ensure that whole-life costs and impacts of engineering schemes are addressed at every stage of planning, implementation and disposal. The book also aims t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield :
Greenleaf Publishing,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1 Why do we need sustainability?
- chapter 2 Why is the current world system unsustainable?
- chapter 3 Patterns of development
- chapter 4 Sustainable development and economic, social and political structures
- chapter 5 Technology: the culprit or the saviour?
- chapter 6 Measuring sustainability
- chapter 7 Sustainable development and the company: why, what and how?
- chapter 8 Design and sustainable development
- chapter 9 Innovation processes
- chapter 10 Technology for sustainable development.