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- Fills a critical gap as textbook and reference book on comprehensive environmental impacts of industrial organizations
- Provides forward-looking analysis of how new technologies and practices can transform environmentally degrading effects of industry
- Addresses how managers can navigate these changes and move their industrial organizations towards environmental sustainability over the long term
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Industry and Environmental Issues
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Front Matter
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Approaches and Tools for Industrial Environmental Management
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book fills a critical gap as a textbook and reference book on the comprehensive environmental impacts of industrial organizations. It is intended for both upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in environmental studies or engineering, and, more broadly, for practicing managers and engineers seeking to improve industrial processes. Nineteen chapters, each focusing on an industrial sector, from resource extraction through fabrication and manufacturing to recycling, evaluate the sector’s inherent "potential to pollute" by providing an overview of typical sector operations and their environmental implications. Beyond outlining and providing frameworks for assessing industrial facilities’ contemporary interactions with the environment (energy and water use, material throughput and hazard, and pollution potential), the book provides forward-looking analyses concerning how new technologies and practices can transform environmentally degrading effects of industry. It also addresses how managers can navigate these changes and move their industrial organizations towards environmental sustainability over the long term. The pedagogical approach emphasizes facility visits and subsequent reports that make use of the book’s analytical tools.
Topics in the book include the following:
-Key topics in greening the industrial facility
-Regulatory compliance
-Pollution prevention
-Life-cycle assessment of products, processes, and facilities
-Sustainability assessments
-Industrial sector analysis (19 sector-specific chapters from Agriculture to Textiles)
-The future of industry and environmental issues
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven
Thomas E. Graedel
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College of Management, Boston University, Boston
Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Greening the Industrial Facility
Book Subtitle: Perspectives, Approaches, and Tools
Authors: Thomas E. Graedel, Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b136781
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24306-1Published: 21 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3717-9Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-26113-3Published: 09 April 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 618
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Engineering Design, Industrial and Production Engineering, Industrial Pollution Prevention