- Hardcover: 363 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (17 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130467138
- ISBN-13: 978-0130467133
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,236,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For upper level courses in Industrial Ecology.
This text addresses the increasing need for knowledge about the interactions between industry and environment with the ultimate goal of sustainability. With in-depth analysis of past, present, and future issues in industrial ecology, this book seeks to meet the needs of the product-design engineers who hold much of the future of industry-environment interactions in their hands, as well as the emerging discipline of “sustainability scientists”.
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To a significant degree, the first edition of this book defined the new field of industrial ecology, the restructuring of technological activity to incorporate environmental concerns. Important topics from that book are updated here, among them
- life-cycle assessment
- product design for the environment
- the incorporation of environmental considerations into product development
- integrating industrial ecology into corporations
- budgets and cycles
In addition, the new edition includes entire chapters on topics that are becoming or have become newly important to the field:
- the biological model applied to industrial systems
- the status of resources
- the transition from products to services
- systems analysis
- Earth systems engineering and management
While still serving as a practical guide to product designers and corporate managers, the new edition also provides guidance for the broader task of mapping a societal evolution to a more sustainable world, thus justifying industrial ecology's label as "the science and technology of sustainability."
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A very good attempt at explaining a complex problem!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Industrial Ecology (Hardcover)
A very useful and thought provoking book. This is a must for anyone thinking about, working in, and teaching waste and resource management. Industrial Ecology (IE) is a concept that looks to the recycling of substances through the ecosystem as a model for the structuring of manufacturing and waste minimisation problems. The section on Life Cycle Analysis will be of use to a growing number of people concerned with new EU legislation. The structure of the book, and development of problem solving strategies is logical and easy to follow. The maths used in book is easily understandable, although requires careful thinking about in places. The exercises are useful for this, however less knowledgable readers would appreciate an answers section at the back. The Appendices are packed with useful data, both for the exercises and developing your own problems. It has prompted me to start to use the concepts and theories in my own classes.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical models for Corporate Environmental Strategies,
By Daniel Waisberg - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Industrial Ecology (Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems) (Hardcover)
I bought this book while writing my under-graduation final project in "Corporate Environmental Strategies", which was later published in a Brazilian magazine called Industrial Ecology. The book changed the way I see environmentalism in a very important way: it made me stop discussing about the real state of the world and start worrying about improving it (in those times I had read 'The skeptical Environmentalist' by Bjorn Lomborg and 'The Ultimate Resource 2' by Julian Simon, which are great books in my opinion). I started to understand that the most important is not to define where we stand, but to make the world a better place.
Graedel and Allenby propose practical and detailed strategies in order to 'green' the production process. They start the book with a really unbiased discussion about environmentalism and slowly provide the context for the introduction of environmental processes into the industrial world (full table of contents below). The text is written in a very clear and didactic way, and the technical terms are explained from A-Z. I strongly recommend this book for engineers, environmentalists, managers, biologists, and people who want to improve the world's environment. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Humanity and Environment. 2. The Industrial Ecology Concept. 3. Technological Change and Evolving Risk. 4. The Relevance of Biological Ecology to Technology. 5. The Status of Resources. 6. Society and Culture. 7. Governments, Laws, and Economics. 8. Industrial Product Design and Development. 9. Industrial Process Design and Operation. 10. Choosing Materials. 11. Designing for Energy Efficiency. 12. Product Delivery. 13. Environmental Interactions During Product Use. 14. Design For End of Life. 15. An Introduction to Life-Cycle Assessment. 16. The LCA Impact and Interpretation Stages. 17. Streamlining the LCA Process. 18. Using the Corporate Industrial Ecology Toolbox. 19. Managing Industrial Ecology in the Corporation. 20. Indicators and Metrics. 21. Services, Technology, and Environment. 22. Industrial Ecosystems. 23. Metabolic and Resource Analysis. 24. Systems Analysis, Models, and Scenario Development. 25. Earth Systems Engineering and Management. 26. The Future of Industrial Ecology. Appendix A: Electronic Solder Alternatives: A Detailed Case Study. Appendix B: Units of Measurement in Industrial Ecology. Glossary. Index. 5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great reference for students in a wide variety of majors.,
By Mariana Ruiz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Industrial Ecology (Hardcover)
The book presents the main topics of environmental science in a clear, organized format, relating them to industrial production of goods. Full of visual aids, excercises, and suggested reading lists at the end of each chapter, could definetly be a text book for undergrads.Humanity and Environment.Technology and Industry. Lyfe-Cycle Assessment. Process and Product Audits. Industrial Design. Materials, Packaging and Transportation. Recycling.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A useful text,
By Jonathan South - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Industrial Ecology (Hardcover)
Though a bit dated the information is well put together.
Text for the environmental engineering course at Conestoga College |
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