By Braden R. Allenby
Descripción: The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering is appropriate to use in sustainable engineering classes for both majors and non-majors. This textbook was designed as the basis for a course in itself, but it can be used to provide modules in existing courses, or as a supplementary text in sustainable engineering, green engineering, industrial ecology, sustainability law and policy, and environmental courses. Sustainable engineering is learning how to engineer responsibly and professionally in the Anthropocene: the Age of the Human. This textbook sketches out the cultural, social, institutional, and environmental context within which engineering and, more broadly, technology systems are now situated. It provides frameworks to facilitate understanding, communication, and the solving of highly complex problems with significant technological dimensions — all in the name of generating more capable professionals competent in their chosen field, who are able to integrate other disciplines to address complex adaptive systems.
Contenido: Chapter 1 SO WHAT IS DIFFERENT NOW? OR, WHY WE NEED SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
Chapter 2 THEMES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Chapter 3 COMPLEXITY
Chapter 4 SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 5 HOMO FABER: HUMAN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 7 INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
Chapter 8 THE FIVE HORSEMEN: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 9 GREEN CHEMISTRY
Chapter 10 SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 11 THE FIVE HORSEMEN, MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Chapter 12 THE MACROETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
Chapter 13 THE ARAL SEA, THE EVERGLADES, AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
Chapter 14 EARTH SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT: SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING AT A PLANETARY SCALE
Chapter 15 THE ENGINEER AS LEADER
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