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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 432 pages, height x width x depth: 10x10x10 mm, weight: 560 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 21-Sep-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 0132127997
  • ISBN-13: 9780132127998
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 432 pages, height x width x depth: 10x10x10 mm, weight: 560 g
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  • Izdevniecība: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 0132127997
  • ISBN-13: 9780132127998
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The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering is appropriate to use in sustainable engineering classes for both majors and non-majors. This textbook was designed as the basis for a course in itself, but it can be used to provide modules in existing courses, or as a supplementary text in sustainable engineering, green engineering, industrial ecology, sustainability law and policy, and environmental courses. Although this is a book about sustainable engineers, it is meant for a broader audience. This is not just an engineering text for engineering students, but also an engineering text for non-engineers who want to better understand the world, and be able to rationally, ethically, and responsibly respond to its challenges and emergent behaviors.


Sustainable engineering is learning how to engineer responsibly and professionally in the Anthropocene: the Age of the Human. This book sketches out the cultural, social, institutional, and environmental context within which engineering and, more broadly, technology systems are now situated. It provides frameworks to facilitate understanding, communication, and the solving of highly complex problems with significant technological dimensions — all in the name of generating more capable professionals competent in their chosen field, who are able to integrate other disciplines to address complex adaptive systems.

List of Text Boxes viii
Preface and Operating Manual ix
Chapter 1 So What Is Different Now? Or, Why We Need Sustainable Engineering 1(35)
1.1 Introduction
1(3)
1.2 Welcome to the Anthropocene
4(3)
1.3 Evolution of the Anthropocene
7(5)
1.4 The Fingerprint of the Anthropocene: Energy and Water
12(9)
1.5 The Fingerprint of the Anthropocene: Human Imprints on Sinks and Material Flows
21(10)
1.6 Conclusion
31(3)
Exercises
34(1)
Annotated Bibliography
35(1)
Chapter 2 Themes Of The Anthropocene 36(40)
2.1 Introduction
36(1)
2.2 Globalization and Multiculturalism, Then and Now
37(11)
2.2.1 Multiculturalism and Technological Evolution
43(2)
2.2.2 Changes in Governance
45(3)
2.3 Information and Communications Technology and Systems
48(5)
2.4 Technology and Sustainability
53(2)
2.5 Demographic Trends
55(18)
2.5.1 Urbanization
56(2)
2.5.2 Urbanization and Sustainable Engineering
58(6)
2.5.3 Age-Related Demographic Issues
64(7)
2.5.4 Demographics and Risk
71(2)
Exercises
73(1)
Annotated Bibliography
74(2)
Chapter 3 Complexity 76(23)
3.1 Complexity
77(1)
3.2 Simple versus Complex Systems
78(9)
3.3 Different Forms of Complexity
87(5)
3.4 Understanding Complexity
92(1)
3.5 Models, Ideology, and Complexity
93(4)
Exercises
97(1)
Annotated Bibliography
98(1)
Chapter 4 Sustainability 99(25)
4.1 Introduction
99(1)
4.2 Sustainable Development
100(8)
4.2.1 Pillars of Sustainable Development
101(3)
4.2.2 Sustainability as Myth
104(4)
4.3 Sustainability and Resources
108(6)
4.4 From Sustainability to Sustainable Engineering
114(4)
4.5 Sustainability and Global States
118(3)
Exercises
121(1)
Annotated Bibliography
122(2)
Chapter 5 Homo Faber: Human History And Technology 124(25)
5.1 Introduction
124(9)
5.2 The Railroad as Technology System
133(9)
5.3 Technology Clusters
142(4)
Exercises
146(1)
Annotated Bibliography
147(2)
Chapter 6 Characteristics Of Technology 149(26)
6.1 Introduction
149(1)
6.2 Product Design
149(5)
6.3 Behavior of Technological Systems
154(10)
6.4 The Three Levels of Technology Systems
164(6)
6.5 Concluding Observations
170(2)
Exercises
172(1)
Annotated Bibliography
173(2)
Chapter 7 Industrial Ecology 175(26)
7.1 Introduction
175(1)
7.2 Industrial Ecology
176(8)
7.3 Life Cycle Assessment
184(7)
7.4 Streamlined LCA
191(5)
7.5 Systems Engineering
196(3)
Exercises
199(1)
Annotated Bibliography
199(2)
Chapter 8 The Five Horsemen: Emerging Technologies 201(30)
8.1 Introduction
201(4)
8.2 The Five Horsemen
205(20)
8.3 The Human as Design Space
225(4)
Exercises
229(1)
Annotated Bibliography
230(1)
Chapter 9 Green Chemistry 231(20)
9.1 Introduction
231(8)
9.2 The CFC Case Study
239(3)
9.3 Antimicrobials and Pharmaceuticals as Earth Systems
242(5)
9.4 Policy Implications
247(2)
Exercises
249(1)
Annotated Bibliography
250(1)
Chapter 10 Sustainable Engineering: Information And Communication Technology 251(34)
10.1 Introduction
251(2)
10.2 Framing ICT
253(5)
10.3 Infrastructure Operations
258(5)
10.4 Services
263(3)
10.5 The Virtualization of Work, Digital Nomads, and the Triple Bottom Line
266(8)
10.6 Virtualization of Work and the Evolution of Institutional Complexity
274(8)
10.7 Conclusion
282(1)
Exercises
283(1)
Annotated Bibliography
283(2)
Chapter 11 The Five Horsemen, Military Operations, And National Security 285(27)
11.1 Introduction
285(3)
11.2 Thinking about National Security
288(21)
Case 1: Cyborg Insects and Other Surveillance Devices
299(3)
Case 2: Telepathic Helmets
302(3)
Case 3: Lethal Autonomous Robots
305(4)
11.3 Concluding Thoughts
309(1)
Exercises
310(1)
Annotated Bibliography
311(1)
Chapter 12 The Macroethics Of Sustainable Engineering 312(16)
12.1 Introduction
312(2)
12.2 Framing Ethics
314(7)
12.3 The Challenge of Macroethics
321(5)
Exercises
326(1)
Annotated Bibliography
327(1)
Chapter 13 The Aral Sea, The Everglades, And Adaptive Management 328(19)
13.1 Introduction: Adaptive Management
328(3)
13.2 The Aral Sea
331(5)
13.3 The Florida Everglades
336(5)
13.4 Themes
341(2)
13.5 Adaptive Management Principles
343(2)
Exercises
345(1)
Annotated Bibliography
345(2)
Chapter 14 Earth Systems Engineering And Management: Sustainable Engineering At A Planetary Scale 347(30)
14.1 Introduction
347(2)
14.2 Geoengineering
349(4)
14.3 Urban Design and Management, and High Modernism
353(3)
14.4 Theoretical ESEM Principles
356(5)
14.5 ESEM Governance Principles
361(6)
14.6 ESEM Design and Management Principles
367(6)
14.7 Sustainable Engineering, ESEM, and the Final Principle
373(1)
Exercises
374(1)
Annotated Bibliography
375(2)
Chapter 15 The Engineer As Leader 377(10)
15.1 Introduction
377(2)
15.2 Attitude and Preparation
379(4)
15.3 Lead by Following
383(1)
15.4 Personal Characteristics
384(2)
Exercises
386(1)
Appendix A: Introduction to Sustainable Engineering Generic Syllabus 387(12)
Appendix B: Glossary of Key Terms 399(10)
Index 409
Braden R. Allenby is currently Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, having moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. He is also a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginias Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University in 1972, his J. D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992.