Sustainable Development for Engineers

A Handbook and Resource Guide
Herausgeber: Mulder, Karel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gathers knowledge on best-practice teaching for engineers, with the aim of giving engineering students a grounding in the challenge that sustainable development poses to the profession, the contribution the engineer can make to sustainability, and the barriers engineers need to confront in their professional lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781874719199
• ISBN-10: 1874719195
• Artikelnr.: 31192654

Autorenporträt

Karel Mulder

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why do we need sustainability?2. Why is the current world system
unsustainable?3. Patterns of development4. Sustainable development and
economic, social and political structures5. Technology - the culprit or the
saviour?6. Measuring sustainability7. Sustainable development and the
company: why, what and how?8. Design and sustainable development9.
Innovation processes10. Technology for sustainable development