Sustainable Development for Engineers : a Handbook and Resource Guide / Karel Mulder.
"It is crucial that engineers - from students to those already practising - have a deep understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part of the solution and not the problem. Is there a way to reconcile modern lifestyles with the compelling need for change?...
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Why do we need sustainability?
- chapter 2 Why is the current world system unsustainable?
- chapter 3 Patterns of development
- chapter 4 Sustainable development and economic, social and political structures
- chapter 5 Technology: the culprit or the saviour?
- chapter 6 Measuring sustainability
- chapter 7 Sustainable development and the company: why, what and how?
- chapter 8 Design and sustainable development
- chapter 9 Innovation processes
- chapter 10 Technology for sustainable development.