Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication on April 27th, 2006 of:
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR ENGINEERS
A HANDBOOK AND RESOURCE GUIDE
Edited by Karel Mulder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
April 2006 | 288 pp | 234 x 156 mm
Hardback: ISBN 1 874719 19 5 | GBP24.95 USD45.00
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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? Could new improved technologies play a key
role? If great leaps in the environmental efficiency of technologies
are needed, can they be produced? Engineers are in a privileged and
hugely influential position to innovate, design and build a sustainable
future. But are they engaged or uninterested? Are they knowledgeable or
ignorant?
This book has been developed by a number of committed educators in
European engineering departments under the leadership of Delft
University of Technology and the Technical University of Catalunya to
meet the perceived gap between what engineers know and what they should
know in relation to sustainable development. The University of Delft
decided as long ago as 1998 that all of its engineering graduates,
working towards careers as designers, managers or researchers, should
be prepared for the challenge of sustainable development and, as such,
should leave university able to make sustainable development
operational in their designs and daily practices. The huge amount of
knowledge gathered on best-practice teaching for engineers is reflected
in this book.
The aim is to give engineering students a grounding in the challenge
that sustainable development poses to the engineering profession, the
contribution the engineer can make to attaining some of the societal
and environmental goals of sustainability, and the barriers and
pitfalls engineers will likely need to confront in their professional
lives
Concise but comprehensive, the book examines the key tools, skills and
techniques that can be used in engineering design and management to
ensure that whole-life costs and impacts of engineering schemes are
addressed at every stage of planning, implementation and disposal. The
book also aims to demonstrate through real-life examples the tangible
benefits that have already been achieved in many engineering projects,
and to highlight how real improvements can be, and are being, made.
Each chapter ends with a series of questions and exercises for the
student to undertake.
’Sustainable Development for Engineers’ will be essential reading for
all engineers and scientists concerned with sustainable development. In
particular, it provides key reading and learning materials for
undergraduate and postgraduate students reading environmental,
chemical, civil or mechanical engineering, manufacturing and design,
environmental science, green chemistry and environmental management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Why do we need sustainability?
2 Why is the current world system unsustainable?
3 Patterns of development
4 Sustainable development and economic, social and political structures
5 Technology—the culprit or the saviour?
6 Measuring sustainability
7 Sustainable development and the company: why, what and how?
8 Design and sustainable development
9 Innovation processes
10 Technology for sustainable development
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