Greening the Industrial Facility: Perspectives, Approaches, and Tools
Thomas Graedel, Yale University
Jennifer Howard-Greenville, Boston University
This book fills a critical gap as a textbook and reference book on the comprehensive environmental impacts of industrial organizations. Each chapter focuses on an industrial sector, from resource extraction through fabrication and manufacturing to recycling. The book evaluates the sector's inherent "potential to pollute" by providing an overview of typical sector operations and their environmental implications. Beyond outlining and providing frameworks for assessing industrial facilities' contemporary interactions with the environment (energy and water use, material throughput and hazard, pollution potential), the book provides forward-looking analyses concerning how new technologies and practices can transform environmentally degrading effects of industry. It also addresses how managers can navigate these changes and move their industrial organizations towards environmental sustainability over the long term.
This book is aimed at advanced endergraduates and beginning graduate students in environmental studies or engineering, as well as practiving managers and envineers who are seeking to improve industrial processes.
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Posted on June 24, 2005