Overview
- Offers examples of different methodologies and tools for pursuing environmental sustainability targets
- Explores experiences and case studies in many sectors of industry and a variety of geographic contexts, from local to regional to national scale
- Features the work of expert contributors, including managers, researchers and consultants whose work spans many sectors of industry and agriculture
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Methodologies and Tools for Environmental Sustainability
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Experiences and Case Studies in Productive Contexts
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Experiences and Case Studies in Territorial Contexts
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About this book
This book brings together, in a single volume, an overview of multiple applications of the concept of environmental sustainability, featuring examples of useful methodologies and tools for pursuing environmental targets, experiences and case studies spanning a variety of sectors, embracing both industry and research projects; and case studies applied to very different territorial contexts.
The first section of the book covers methodologies and tools for environmental sustainability, including Industrial Ecology, Urban Metabolism, Life Cycle Assessment, analysis of industrial water footprint and such chemical technologies as Hypercritical Separation Technology (HYST).
Part Two provides case studies of environmental sustainability in specific industrial sectors including electronics, pharmaceutical manufacturing, bio-energy, agriculture, food and residential construction retrofitting.
Part Three explores experiences of environmental sustainability in territorial contexts on a local, regional or national scale. This section includes chapters on sustainability in the Republic of San Marino, the European “Covenant of Mayors” urban sustainability initiative and efforts to promote sustainability in Italy, Norway and Poland among others. The book concludes with a discussion of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Objective I regions of Italy.
Featuring the contributions of academics, managers operating in various productive sectors and consultants, the book aims to promote the growth and spread of scientific research and technological development for environmental sustainability.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pathways to Environmental Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Methodologies and Experiences
Editors: Roberta Salomone, Giuseppe Saija
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03826-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03825-4Published: 07 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34800-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03826-1Published: 19 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Environment, general, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Economics, Management