Book Info: Green Technologies for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
text: Green Technologies for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
Author(s) : Rajiv K. Sinha , Margaret Greenway
Year of Publication : 2004
Physical Details : xxiii+432pp;tables; appendices; index; 25cms
Edition : 1st
Weight : 1550 grams
Price:US$ 58 (Hardbound)
About the Book:
TECHNOLOGIES of the 20th century promoted rapid socio-economic development and improved the quality of life of the people. But it was not without a price. All the basic life-support systems on earth-air, water and food-started getting poisoned in the wake of material development threatening our sustainability and survival. This called for a change in the strategy of development and the technologies applied. Sustainable human society on earth with 'good quality of life for all' can be achievedeither by persuading people to change their behaviour and attitude to life and give up the culture of consumerism or by promoting sustainable development programmes with appropriate environmental technologies that allow people to enjoy the same quality of life and standard of living, but with a significantly lower environmental cost'. Given the difficulties of changing people, the best" hope for civilisation lies in the development of environmentally sustainable technologies for development. This book precisely discusses some of those technologies to protect our life-support systems on earth, make our living and movement more sustainable and also salvaging all the wastes produced by us as a by-product of living.
Contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Conversion Table
SECTION I
Development and Environment, Technology and Sustainability and
Cost-Effective Technologies for Environmental Management and Sustainable
Development
1. The Technological Revolution: Its Good and Bad Legacies for Mankind
Development of Environmental Technologies for Delivering Better Quality of
Life at Lower Environmental Cost
2. Development Antagonising Environment and Sustainability: Embarking on
Sustainable Development Programmes With Environmental Technologies
SECTION II
Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Management of the Basic Life
Support Systems of Mankind-Air, Water, Food, Energy and Essential Resources
3. Air Pollution and Chemical Contamination of the Breathing Air:
Environmental Technologies for Protecting the Vital Source of Survival
4. Increasing Chemical Contamination of Global Water Sources:
Environmental Technologies for Protecting the Precious Resource: The
Elixir of Life
5. High-Tech Chemical Agriculture: A Potential Risk of Chemical
Contamination of Food: Environmental Biotechnology for Sustainable
Agriculture and Safe Food Production
6. Conventional and Existing Energy Systems of Civilisation-A Mixed
Blessing: Environmental Technologies for Making Them Cleaner and
Sustainable Sources of Energy
7. Environmental Technologies for Development of Clean and Green
Sustainable Energy Systems: Assuring a Pollution-Free Future and Safety of
Life on Earth
8. Environmental Technologies for Conservation of Natural Resources,
Development of Resource Alternatives and Improving the Efficiency of
Resource Use for Environmental Sustainability
SECTION III
Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Living, Lifestyle and Mobility of
Mankind
9. Cities (Centres of Human Habitat) Becoming Unsustainable: Environmental
Technologies for Development of Eco-Houses and Eco-Cities for Sustainable
Living
10. Automobiles-The Mobile Pollutants: Technologies for Development of Low
or No Emission Vehicles for Sustainable Mobility
SECTION IV
Appropriate Technologies for Safe and Sustainable Management of Wastes and
Wastelands (Chemically Contaminated Sites)
11. Mounting Municipal Solid Wastes: A Potential Threat to Environment and
Sustainability: Technologies for Safe Waste Management With Resource
Development
12. The Technological Wastes of Civilisation: Potential Threat to Human
Health and the Environment: Technologies for Their Safe Management
13. Waste Recycling Technologies: Converting Waste into Resource:
Combining Ecological Gains With Economic Benefits for Society
14. Composting Technology for Solid Wastes: Retrieving Essential Nutrients
from Waste for Fertilising the Farms
15. Cleaner Production Technologies in Industries: Preventing Waste and
Pollution With Resource Conservation
16. Bioengineering: A Cost-Effective Natural Technology Using Plants,
Animals and Microbes for Hazardous Wastes and Mined Wastelands (Chemically
Contaminated) Management
Appendix I: Making Self-Assessment: How Sustainable is your Lifestyle?
Appendix II: Some Startling Facts about Environment and the Environmental
Resources for Survival
Appendix III: Sustainability and Unsustainability Factors
Appendix IV: Some Sustainable Technologies at a Glance
Author/Institution Index
Subject Index
About the Authors:
Rajiv K. Sinha is teaching environmental science/technology at the School of Environmental Engineering, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He was teaching human ecology and environmental science at Indira Gandhi Centre for HEEPS, University for Rajasthan, Jaipur (India), before shifting to Australia in 1999. Dr. Sinha has published 11 books (some with co-authors) and over 70 papers on various issues of environment and development, sustainable development and environmental management focusing on both the developing and the developed countries. He also writes for UNEP. He has travelled to Canada, the U. K., Germany, Switzerland and Iceland in academic connection.
Margaret Greenway is Associate Professor and an Ecological Engineer. She
was Head of the School of Environmental Engineering at Griffith
University, Australia (2000-2003). She is an authority on 'Constructed
Wetland Technology' in Australia and has published over 100 papers on
environmental management and environment and development issues. She has
widely travelled in North America, South America, Africa and to Asian
nations in academic connection. In 1999, she was invited to Cologne
(Germany) and in 2000 to Beijing, China, as Wetland Expert in
international workshops. She was keynote speaker at the International
Conference on Industrial Pollution and Control Technologies in Hyderabad,
India, in December 2001. Dr. Greenway is also on the advisory committee of
Environmental Studies in some Indian institutions.
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