Streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment - Couverture souple

Gradel, Thomas E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0136074251 ISBN 13 : 9780136074250

Editeur : Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

For courses in Environmental Engineering, Industrial Ecology, and Introduction to Design in Civil, Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering Departments. From the author of a best-selling industrial ecology text, this book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

FEATURES

• Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life-cycle assessment.
• Focuses on streamlined LCAs, a technique common in industry today.
• Includes unique coverage of the assessment of societal infrastructures (Ch. 12).
• Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like.
• Includes useful checklists for performing SLCA.

Présentation de l'éditeur

For courses in Environmental Engineering, Industrial Ecology, and Introduction to Design in Civil, Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering Departments. From the author of a best-selling industrial ecology text, this book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0136074251
• ISBN 13: 9780136074250
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie