Sustainable development for engineers : a handbook and resource guide

✍ Scribed by Mulder, Karel

Publisher: Greenleaf Pub.
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Why do we need sustainability?2. Why is the current world system unsustainable?3. Patterns of development4. Sustainable development and economic, social and political structures5. Technology - the culprit or the saviour?6. Measuring sustainability7. Sustainable development and the company: why, what and how?8. Design and sustainable development9. Innovation processes10. Technology for sustainable development

✦ Subjects

Sustainable engineering;Environmental engineering;Sustainable development;okolje -- okoljsko inženirstvo -- trajnostni razvoj -- ekologija;sustainable development -- environment

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