Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle
From Urban Planning to Recycling
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Beschreibung
This book analyzes the relationship between large-scale industrial activity and the carbon footprint, and provides a theoretical framework and tools to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage of their life cycles, including urban-planning master plans, recycling activities, project and building stages as well as managing and manufacturing. Discussing the main preventative and corrective measures that can be utilized, it includes case studies, reports on technological developments and examples of successful policies to provide inspiration to readers. This book collects the contributions of authors from four continents, in order to analyze from as many as possible points of view and using many different approaches, the problem of sustainability in today’s globalized world.
This book analyzes the relationship between large-scale industrial activity and the carbon footprint, and provides a theoretical framework and tools to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage of their life cycles, including urban-planning master plans, recycling activities, project and building stages as well as managing and manufacturing. Discussing the main preventative and corrective measures that can be utilized, it includes case studies, reports on technological developments and examples of successful policies to provide inspiration to readers. This book collects the contributions of authors from four continents, in order to analyze from as many as possible points of view and using many different approaches, the problem of sustainability in today’s globalized world.
Provides a global tool to analyze the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage Presents the main preventative measures that can be utilized Examines technological developments in the industry Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Roberto Álvarez Fernández
Themen in »Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle«
Greenhouse gas emissions Energy management Sustainability and urban planning Calculating industrial carbon footprints Gas supply infrastructure Waste management infrastructure Urban sustainability design Potable water infrastructure Industrial activities Carbon footprint sustainability Urban planning master plan Recycling activities landscape/regional and urban planning industrial pollution prevention