Overview
- Highlights case studies involving the carbon footprints of municipal solid waste and sustainable road transport
- Includes case study by studying carbon sequestration of Karnataka, a state in India
- Discusses how to alleviate the problem of global warming based on carbon footprints of industries
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Global warming and its effects are felt and understood by almost every one across the globe now. Carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in different industrial sectors is the need of the hour. There are numerous industrial sectors, whose carbon footprints need to be calculated and the ways to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions from those sectors need to be started with immediate effect. This book highlights case studies involving the carbon footprints of municipal solid waste, sustainable road transport and Carbon footprint accounting of sources and sinks by studying carbon sequestration of Karnataka, a state in India.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and seven years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 75 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited multiple books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Carbon Footprint Case Studies
Book Subtitle: Municipal Solid Waste Management, Sustainable Road Transport and Carbon Sequestration
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9577-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9576-9Published: 03 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9579-0Published: 04 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9577-6Published: 02 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 160
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Green Chemistry