Sustainable engineering : drivers, metrics, tools, and applications /: drivers, metrics, tools, and applications. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Krishna R. Reddy, Claudio Cameselle, Jeffrey A. Adams.
• Authors: Reddy, Krishna R; Cameselle, Claudio, 1967-; Adams, Jeffrey A (Jeffrey Alan)
• Contents: Section I: Drivers, Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts and Resiliency Chapter 1. Emerging Challenges, Sustainability, and Sustainable Engineering 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Emerging challenges 1.2.1 Increased consumption and depletion of natural resources 1.2.2 Growing environmental pollution 1.2.3 Increasing population 1.2.4 Increasing waste generation 1.2.5 Increasing greenhouse gas emissions 1.2.6 Decline of ecosystems 1.2.7 Loss of biodiversity 1.2.8 Social injustice 1.2.9 Urban sprawl 1.3 What is sustainability? 1.4 What is sustainable engineering? 1.5 Summary 1.6 Questions and problems 1.7 Cited references Chapter 2. Environmental Concerns 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Global warming and climate change 2.3 Desertification 2.4 Deforestation 2.5 Loss of habitat and biodiversity 2.6 Ozone layer depletion 2.7 Air pollution 2.8 Smog 2.9 Acid rain 2.10 Water usage and pollution 2.11 Eutrophication 2.12 Salinity 2.13 Wastes and disposal 2.14 Land contamination 2.15 Visibility 2.16 Odors 2.17 Aesthetic degradation 2.18 Land use patterns 2.19 Thermal pollution 2.20 Noise pollution 2.21 Summary 2.22 Questions and problems 2.23 Cited references Chapter 3. Social, Economic, and Legal Issues 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Social issues 3.2.1 Society 3.2.2 Developed and developing societies 3.2.3 Social sustainability concept 3.2.4 Social indicators 3.2.5 Social Impact assessment 3.2.6 Social sustainability Implementation 3.3 Economic issues 3.3.1 Economic assessment framework 3.3.2 Life cycle costing 3.3.3 True-cost accounting 3.4 Legal issues 3.5 Summary 3.6 Questions and problems 3.7 Cited references Chapter 4. Availability and Depletion of Natural Resources 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Types and availability of resources 4.2.1 Fossil fuels 4.2.2 Radioactive fuels 4.2.3 Mineral resources 4.2.4 Water resources 4.2.5 Other elemental cycles 4.3 Resource depletion 4.3.1 Causes of resource depletion 4.3.2 Effects of resource depletion 4.3.3 Overshooting 4.3.4 Urban metabolism 4.4 Summary 4.5 Questions and problems 4.6 Cited references Chapter 5. Disaster Resiliency 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Climate change and extreme events 5.3 Impacts of extreme events 5.3.1 The 2012 Hurricane Sandy in New York city 5.3.2 The 2016 Chile's wildfires by drought and record heat 5.3.3 The 2017 Worst South Asian monsoon floods 5.4 What is resiliency? 5.5 Initiatives and policies on resiliency 5.6 Resiliency framework 5.7 Resilient infrastructure 5.8 Resilient infrastructure examples 5.8.1 San Francisco firehouse resilient design 5.8.2 San Francisco resilient CSD design 5.8.3 Resilient environmental remediation 5.9 Challenges 5.10 Summary 5.11 Questions and problems 5.12 Cited references Section II: Sustainability Metrics and Assessment Tools Chapter 6. Sustainability Indicators, Metrics, and Assessment Tools 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Sustainability indicators 6.3 Sustainability metrics 6.4 Sustainability assessment tools 6.5 Summary 6.6 Questions and problems 6.7 Cited references Chapter 7. Material Flow Analysis and Material Budget 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Budget of natural resources 7.3 Constructing a budget 7.4 Material flow analysis 7.5 Material flow analysis: wastes 7.6 National material account 7.7 Summary 7.8 Questions and problems 7.9 Cited references Chapter 8. Carbon Footprint Analysis 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Global warming potential and carbon footprint 8.3 Measuring carbon footprint 8.4 Standards for calculating the carbon footprint 8.5 GHG inventory: developments in the United States 8.6 USEPA: greenhouse gas reporting program 8.7 Tools for GHG inventory 8.8 UIC carbon footprint case study 8.9 Programs to mitigate GHG emissions 8.10 Summary 8.11 Questions and problems 8.12 Cited references Chapter 9. Life Cycle Assessment 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Life cycle assessment 9.2.1 Definition and objective 9.2.2 Procedure 9.2.3 History 9.3 LCA methodology 9.3.1 Goal and scope definition 9.3.2 Life cycle inventory (LCI) 9.3.3 Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) 9.3.4 Interpretation and unresolved issues 9.4 LCA tools 9.5 Simple LCA example 9.6 Summary 9.7 Questions and problems 9.8 Cited references Chapter 10. Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Streamlined LCA 10.3 Health and safety to the SLCA matrix 10.4 Simple example of SLCA 10.5 Applications of SLCA 10.6 Summary 10.7 Questions and problems 10.8 Cited references Chapter 11. Economic Input Output-Life Cycle Analysis 11.1 Introduction 11.2 EIO model 11.3 EIO-LCA 11.4 EIO-LCA model results 11.4.1 Interpretation of results 11.4.2 Uncertainty 11.4.3 Other issues and considerations 11.5 Example of EIO-LCA model 11.6 Conventional LCA versus EIO-LCA 11.7 EIO versus physical input-output (PIO) analysis 11.8 Summary 11.9 Questions and problems 11.10 Cited references Chapter 12. Environmental Health Risk Assessment 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Emergence of the risk era 12.3 Risk assessment and management 12.4 Ecological risk assessment 12.5 Summary 12.6 Questions and problems 12.7 Cited references Chapter 13. Other Emerging Assessment Tools 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Environmental assessment tools/indicators 13.3 Ecosystem services valuation 13.4 Integrated sustainability assessment models 13.5 Sustainability assessment tools 13.5.1 Life-cycle costing 13.5.2 Cost benefit analysis 13.6 Environmental justice tools 13.7 Summary 13.8 Questions and problems 13.9 Cited references Section III: Sustainable Engineering Practices Chapter 14. Sustainable Energy Engineering 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Environmental impacts of energy generation 14.2.1 Air emissions 14.2.2 Solid waste generation 14.2.3 Water resource use 14.2.4 Land resource use 14.3 Nuclear energy 14.4 Strategies for clean energy and the environment 14.5 Renewable energy 14.5.1 Solar energy 14.5.2 Wind energy 14.5.3 Water energy 14.5.4 Geothermal energy 14.5.5 Biomass energy 14.6 Summary <p&g
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 620.00286; Sustainable engineering; Sustainable engineering -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119493945
• Related ISBNs: 9781119493952
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