Product Description

For courses in Environmental Engineering, Industrial Ecology, and Introduction to Design in Civil, Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering Departments. From the author of a best-selling industrial ecology text, this book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #863140 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 310 pages

From the Publisher
From the author of a best-selling industrial ecology text, this book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Beginning with goals of a particular process of product, Graedel discusses data and analyzes th e streamlined life-cycle assessment process.

From the Back Cover

This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

FEATURES

• Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life-cycle assessment.
• Focuses on streamlined LCAs, a technique common in industry today.
• Includes unique coverage of the assessment of societal infrastructures (Ch. 12).
• Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like.
• Includes useful checklists for performing SLCA.