Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Oxford, England ; Waltham, Massachusetts :
Butterworth-Heinemann
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629861106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introduction; Suitability Definitions, Systems Approach to Sustainability, and Ways to Express and Measure Sustainability; Quantification of the Environmental Impacts: Footprints; Sustainable Design, Planning, and Management; Policies Toward the Sustainability; Conclusion; References; 1 Engineering sustainability; Introduction; Extending boundaries; Systems analysis approach to sustainability and engineering challenges
- Uncertainty analysisStatic uncertainties; Dynamic uncertainties; Ito process representation; Mental models; Decision making with uncertainty; Optimization approach; Agent-based scenario analysis; Case studies; Summary; References; 2 Recent developments in the application of Fisher information to sustainable environmental management; Introduction; Information theory; Fisher information; Dynamic order, regime shifts, and the sustainable regimes hypothesis; Comparison of Computational Approaches: Assessing Sustainability in Model Systems
- Representing the trajectory of a system with elementary functionsWastewater reactor model for nitrogen removal; Shallow lake model: regime shift; Summary: comparison of methods 1 and 2; Application to real urban, regional, and national systems; Urban: Ohio statistical metropolitan areas; Early warning signals, regime change, and leading indicators; Bayes theorem; Regional: San Luis Basin, Colorado; National: United States; Exploring declines in FI as early warning signals of critical transition; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; Disclaimer; Appendix 2.1 Approaches to estimating FI
- Method 1: Continuous form of FI as a function of the velocity and acceleration of the system's trajectoryMethod 2: Discrete form as a function of the probability density of system states; Binning approach; Algorithm; Appendix 2.2 FI at tipping points; References; 3 Sustainable process index; Measuring ecological impact-the normative base of the SPI; Assigning footprints to material flows; Calculating areas for materials subject to global material cycles; Calculating areas for all other materials; LCA with the SPI; Applications of the SPI; Characteristics of the SPI assessment
- Tools Based on the SPIConclusion; References; 4 Moving to a decision point in sustainability analyses; Introduction; Defining a system in the context of sustainability; Indicator-based system assessment for sustainability; History of sustainability analysis through the use of indicators and metrics; AIChE sustainability metrics suite/BRIDGES to sustainability metrics; IChemE sustainable development process metrics; AIChE Sustainability Index; BASF: Eco-efficiency and SEEBALANCE® analysis; Research methodology; Need for aggregate index PLS-VIP method
- Steps in sustainability analysis using the aggregate index PLS-VIP method
