Ecology - General & Miscellaneous, General & Heavy Industry - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This unique and important book takes a multidisciplinary approach to an integrated discussion of the issues related to industrial ecology and sustainable development. It also provides the first integrated view of the implications of industrial ecology and sustainability policy issues. Provides a guide to the policies of industrial ecology and sustainability through actual case studies that incorporate real world multidisciplinary examples. It also features exercises that are designed to encourage understanding of the issues and offer a means of applying those issues to the real world. An essential resource on industrial ecology and sustainable development for professionals in engineering, environmental science, and economics.Editorials
Booknews
A textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in engineering, economics, technology, business, environment, and policy. Characterizing industrial ecology as the science of sustainability, explores the transition in policy, regulation, and management that would be required to replace a brush-fires approach to environmental protection with systematic management of the interaction between natural and industrial systems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
June 9, 1998
Publisher
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1999.
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780139211805