Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Ecology - General & Miscellaneous, Automotive Engineering - General & Miscellaneous, General & Heavy Industry - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
FEATURES:- Shows that an industrial system must be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them.
- Outlines a systems view in which one seeks to optimize the total materials cycle — from materials to components and whole products, through obsolescence and disposal.
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- Focuses on resources, energy, and capital as factors to be optimized.
- Explores various experiences encountered by the automobile industry in designing an automobile with the environment in mind. Considers:
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- What choices are desirable?
- Which decisions work?
- Which are difficult to implement?
- Where is more research needed?
- Places automobiles in the context of broad societal structures — economics, psychology, culture.
- Provides historical perspectives on the evolution of the automobile and the evolution of the automotive infrastructure. (Chs. 4, 5) Considers:
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- Road network development, maintenance and repair.
- Petroleum exploration, recovery, and delivery network.
- The automobile as a facilitator of urban sprawl.
- Discusses the many steps and factors to be considered in designing for environment:
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- Choosing materials. (Ch. 6)
- Energy consumption. (Ch. 7)
- Environmental impacts during manufacture. (Ch. 8)
- Environmental interactions during product use. (Ch. 9)
- Design for recycling. (Ch. 10)
- Surveys global trends affecting the automobile, the transportationinfrastructure, and the society of the next quarter-century.
- Contains Matrix Evaluation Guidelines and Checklists. (Appendix A)
Book Details
Published
July 1, 1997
Publisher
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1998.
Pages
243
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780136074090