Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability

✍ Scribed by Jirí J Klemes

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 585
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability answers the question “what are the available methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a product, system or process?” Multiple well-known authors share their expertise in order to give a broad perspective of this issue from a chemical and environmental engineering perspective. This mathematical, quantitative book includes many case studies to assist with the practical application of environmental and sustainability methods. Readers learn how to efficiently assess and use these methods.

This book summarizes all relevant environmental methodologies to assess the sustainability of a product and tools, in order to develop more green products or processes. With life cycle assessment as its main methodology, this book speaks to engineers interested in environmental impact and sustainability.

• Helps engineers to assess, evaluate, and measure sustainability in industry
• Provides workable approaches to environmental and sustainability assessment
• Readers learn tools to assess the sustainability of a process or product and to design it in an environmentally friendly way

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter, Pages i,iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Pages xv-xvii, Bhavik R. Bakshi, Umberto Berardi, Thomas Brecheisen, Heriberto Cabezas, Siwanat Chairakwongsa, Lidija Čuček, Richard C. Darton, Luca De Benedetto, Urmila Diwekar, Tarsha Eason, Rafiqul Gani, Carina L. Gargalo, Erin L. Gibbemeyer, Alejandra González-Mejía, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Boon Hooi Hong, Bing Shen How, Vikas Khanna, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Zdravko Kravanja, Hon Loong Lam, et al.
Preface, Page xix, Adisa Azapagic
Acknowledgments, Page xxi
Introduction, Pages xxiii-xlvii, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Petar Sabev Varbanov
Chapter 1 - Engineering sustainability, Pages 1-24, Urmila Diwekar
Chapter 2 - Recent developments in the application of Fisher information to sustainable environmental management, Pages 25-72, Alejandra González-Mejía, Leisha Vance, Tarsha Eason, Heriberto Cabezas
Chapter 3 - Sustainable process index, Pages 73-86, Michael Narodoslawsky
Chapter 4 - Moving to a decision point in sustainability analyses, Pages 87-129, Debalina Sengupta, Rajib Mukherjee, Subhas K. Sikdar
Chapter 5 - Overview of environmental footprints, Pages 131-193, Lidija Čuček, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Zdravko Kravanja
Chapter 6 - N footprint and the nexus between C and N footprints, Pages 195-220, Shweta Singh, Erin L. Gibbemeyer, Bhavik R. Bakshi
Chapter 7 - The water footprint of industry, Pages 221-254, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Chapter 8 - Life cycle sustainability aspects of microalgal biofuels, Pages 255-276, George G. Zaimes, Vikas Khanna
Chapter 9 - Methods and tools for sustainable chemical process design, Pages 277-321, Carina L. Gargalo, Siwanat Chairakwongsa, Alberto Quaglia, Gürkan Sin, Rafiqul Gani
Chapter 10 - Life cycle assessment as a comparative analysis tool for sustainable brownfield redevelopment projects: Cumulative energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions, Pages 323-365, Thomas Brecheisen, Thomas Theis
Chapter 11 - The Environmental Performance Strategy Map: An integrated life cycle assessment approach to support the strategic decision-making process, Pages 367-408, Luca De Benedetto, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš
Chapter 12 - Green supply chain toward sustainable industry development, Pages 409-449, Hon Loong Lam, Bing Shen How, Boon Hooi Hong
Chapter 13 - Supply and demand planning and management tools toward low carbon emissions, Pages 451-477, Zainuddin Abdul Manan, Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi
Chapter 14 - Setting a policy for sustainability: The importance of measurement, Pages 479-496, Richard C. Darton
Chapter 15 - Sustainability assessments of buildings, communities, and cities, Pages 497-545, Umberto Berardi
Index, Pages 547-559