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Technological Choices for Sustainability

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Editors:
  1. Subhas K. Sikdar

    1. US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, USA

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  2. Peter Glavič

    1. Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

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  3. Ravi Jain

    1. School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA

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  • Summarizes ideas and thoughts on technical approaches to sustainability

  • Provides scientific and technical perspectives of approaches

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Subhas K. Sikdar, Peter Glavič, Ravi Jain
      Pages 1-4

  3. Framing the Issue of Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Science and Sustainability: who knows best?

      • Neil Winterton
      Pages 7-35

    3. Sustainability: Ecological, Social, Economic, Technological, and Systems Perspectives

      • Heriberto Cabezas, Christopher W. Pawlowski, Audrey L. Mayer, N. Theresa Hoagland
      Pages 37-64

    4. US EPA/Academia Collaboration for a Green Engineering Textbook For Chemical Engineering

      • David R. Shonnard, David T. Allen, Sharon Austin, Nhan Nguyen
      Pages 65-75

    5. Innovative Industrial Ecology Education Can Guide Us to Sustainable Paths

      • Kristan Cockerill
      Pages 77-90

    6. The sustainable industrial development: reality and vision

      • Jurgis Staniskis, Valdas Arbaciauskas
      Pages 91-99

  4. Sustainable Pathways

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Clean technologies for wastewater management in seafood canning industries

      • Francisco Omil, Elena García-Sandá, Ramón Méndez, Juan M. Lema
      Pages 103-125

    3. Kinetic Analysis of Aerobic Composting of Tobacco Industry Solid Waste

      • Felicita Briški, Nina Horgas, Marija Vuković, Zoran Gomzi
      Pages 127-138

    4. Preventative Measures in Production from the Point of Sustainability

      • Anna Christianova
      Pages 139-146

    5. Environmetric strategies to classify, interpret and model risk assessment and quality of environmental systems

      • Vasil Simeonov
      Pages 147-164

    6. Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs

      • Minh Ha-Duong, David W. Keith
      Pages 165-182

    7. An Integrated Computer Aided System for Generation and Evaluation of Sustainable Process Alternatives

      • Niels Jensen, Nuria Coll, Rafiqul Gani
      Pages 183-214

    8. Pollution prevention and environmental management systems — tools to obtain a sustainable development

      • Victor Teodor Petcu Nitica, Vladimir Gheorghievici
      Pages 215-226

  5. Sustainability Metrics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Technology sensitive indicators of sustainability

      • Andrzej Wasiak
      Pages 229-238

    3. Metrics for supply chain sustainability

      • Roland Clift
      Pages 239-253

    4. Quantifying technological aspects of process sustainability: a thermodynamic approach

      • S. Lems, H. J. van der Kooi, J. de Swaan Arons
      Pages 255-265
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About this book

This book was made possible by the exceptional support provided by NATO Sci­ entific and Environmental Division, University of Maribor (Slovenia), Govern­ ment of the Republic of Slovenia, British and the United States Embassies (Ljubl­ jana, the Republic of Slovenia). The authors, as listed in this book, took the time to prepare excellent manu­ scripts focusing on various issues related to technological choices for sustainabil­ ity. These manuscripts were rigorously reviewed and refereed by scientists and engineers before inclusion in this book. An introductory chapter was prepared to provide an overview and to integrate technical issues covered in the book. A summary chapter is included at the end that provides a synthesis of panel discus­ sions related to the three main sections of the book. The editors are most grateful to the contributors, sponsor organizations, and many colleagues who were kind enough to assist us in making this book possible. We are particularly grateful to Damjan Krajnc of the University of Maribor for compiling all the manuscripts in the correct format, creating the index, and assur­ ing that all the contents are faithfully presented in this volume. Background in­ formation about the editors and principal authors and contributors to this book fol­ lows.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, USA

    Subhas K. Sikdar

  • Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Peter Glavič

  • School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA

    Ravi Jain

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technological Choices for Sustainability

  • Editors: Subhas K. Sikdar, Peter Glavič, Ravi Jain

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10270-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21131-0Published: 08 April 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05934-6Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-10270-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 444

  • Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Climate Change, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection

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