Pathways to Environmental Sustainability: Methodologies and Experiences

✍ Scribed by Roberta Salomone, Giuseppe Saija (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together, in a single volume, an overview of multiple applications of the concept of environmental sustainability, featuring examples of useful methodologies and tools for pursuing environmental targets, experiences and case studies spanning a variety of sectors, embracing both industry and research projects; and case studies applied to very different territorial contexts.

The first section of the book covers methodologies and tools for environmental sustainability, including Industrial Ecology, Urban Metabolism, Life Cycle Assessment, analysis of industrial water footprint and such chemical technologies as Hypercritical Separation Technology (HYST).

Part Two provides case studies of environmental sustainability in specific industrial sectors including electronics, pharmaceutical manufacturing, bio-energy, agriculture, food and residential construction retrofitting.

Part Three explores experiences of environmental sustainability in territorial contexts on a local, regional or national scale. This section includes chapters on sustainability in the Republic of San Marino, the European “Covenant of Mayors” urban sustainability initiative and efforts to promote sustainability in Italy, Norway and Poland among others. The book concludes with a discussion of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Objective I regions of Italy.

Featuring the contributions of academics, managers operating in various productive sectors and consultants, the book aims to promote the growth and spread of scientific research and technological development for environmental sustainability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Food for Thought: Seeking the Essence of Industrial Symbiosis....Pages 3-11
LCA and Linear Programming for the Environmental Optimization of Waste Management Systems: A Simulation....Pages 13-22
Urban Metabolism: Many Open Questions for Future Answers....Pages 23-32
Water Footprint to Support Environmental Management: An Overview....Pages 33-42
Marketing Strategies for the Agri-Food Sector: Adaptation Requirements and Contradictions....Pages 43-51
Hypercritical Separation Technology (HYST): A Sustainable Technology for Agricultural By-products Valorization....Pages 53-63
Antioxidative Effectiveness of Environment Friendly Functional Biopolymers for Food Applications....Pages 65-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
1997–2012 The Environmental Management System of the ST Microelectronics Site of Catania is 15 years old....Pages 77-85
Sustainability in the Food Oil Sector: The Experience of the Oleifici Mataluni in Eco-Innovation Projects....Pages 87-95
Waste Management and Environmental Impact: A Case Study of Pharmaceutical Industry....Pages 97-106
Subcategory Assessment Method for Social LCA: A First Application on the Wine Sector....Pages 107-116
Human and Environmental Impact Assessment for a Soybean Biodiesel Production Process Through the Integration of LCA and RA....Pages 117-126
Energy and Environmental Assessment of Retrofit Actions on a Residential Building....Pages 127-135
Bio-construction and Renewable Raw Materials: The Case of Cork....Pages 137-146
Studies About the Utilization of Citrus Wastes in View of Environment Protection....Pages 147-156
Prospects for the Use of Mini and Micro Wind Power Plants in Residential Settings....Pages 157-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Territorial Observatory on Sustainability in the Republic of San Marino: A Case Study....Pages 173-182
The European Policy for the Sustainability of Urban Areas and the “Covenant of Mayors” Initiative: A Case Study....Pages 183-192
Tools for Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Poland....Pages 193-203
The Project for the Implementation of the Industrial Symbiosis Platform in Sicily: The Progress After the First Year of Operation....Pages 205-214
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Potential Developments of Industrial Symbiosis in the Taranto Productive District....Pages 215-224
Harmonization of Documentation for EPD-Generation: The Norwegian Model....Pages 225-241
Environmentally Sustainable Development in the Province of Belluno (Italy)....Pages 243-256
The European Ecolabel in the Tourist Sector: An Analysis of the Italian Experience of Mountain Huts....Pages 257-266
CAP and Sustainability. Subsidies and Biodiversity in Six “Objective-1” Italian Regions....Pages 267-276

✦ Subjects

Economic Systems; Environment, general; Environmental Management; Sustainable Development; Environmental Economics; Management/Business for Professionals