With in-depth analysis of past, present, and future issues in industrial ecology, this book seeks to meet the needs of the product-design engineers. Includes discussion of the environmental impact of common industrial approaches, with special emphasis given to the long-term effects. This book is good for product-design professionals seeking to attain information about sustainability and design techniques.

Industrial Ecology

Business & Money

Allenby, Braden R.

Graedel, T.E.

Management & Leadership

Pearson College Div

Industrial ecology is a new way of looking at economic and environmental interactions. As applied to manufacturing, it requires familiarity with industrial activites, environmental processes, and societal interaction. Presents practical approaches to designing for the environment and life cycle assessment methodologies. Demonstrates how to evaluate one product or process with respect to others. Highlights prospects for the future. For those whose background is either industrial or environmental, or those interested in learning how to put into practice the idea of performing industrial activities while keeping environmental consequences in check.

Allenby, B.R.

Sports & Outdoors

Prentice Hall College Div.

Focuses on environmental clean-up from our past while working towards future, environmentally-sound industrial growth. KEY TOPICS: The preservation and enhancement of the environment, waste management, and industrial/environmental interaction. Manufacturing personnel, physical designers, packaging engineers, ecologists, etc.

Design for Environment

Science & Math

American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Biological Sciences

Using the automobile as a case study of one of the industries most attuned to the concept of industrial ecology (i.e., the means by which humanity can deliberately and rationally approach and maintain a desirable carrying capacity, given continued economic, cultural and technological evolution), this book provides a general introduction to how to design for environment — a key component of the repertoire of the 21st century engineer. Focuses on resources, energy, and capital as factors to be optimized. This book outlines a systems view in which one seeks to optimize the total materials cycle— from virgin material, to finished material, to component, to product, to obsolete product, and to ultimate disposal. It shows that an industrial system must be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them. For industrial, mechanical, and environmental engineers.

Industrial Ecology and the Automobile

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

PRENTICE/HALL

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.

Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation

Economics

In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental human values.Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out -- even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as "human," "technological," and "natural" to embrace a new techno-human relationship.

The Techno-Human Condition

Sarewitz, Daniel

Evolution

Mit Pr

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.
In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental human values. Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out―even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as “human,” “technological,” and “natural” to embrace a new techno-human relationship. 
Contributors Boris Barbour, Mario Biagioli, Paul S. Brookes, Finn Brunton, Alex Csiszar, Alessandro Delfanti, Emmanuel Didier, Sarah de Rijcke, Daniele Fanelli, Yves Gingras, James R. Griesemer, Catherine Guaspare, Marie-Andrée Jacob, Barbara M. Kehm, Cyril Labbé, Jennifer Lin, Alexandra Lippman, Burkhard Morganstern, Ivan Oransky, Michael Power, Sergio Sismondo, Brandon Stell, Tereza Stöckelová, Elizabeth Wager, Paul Wouters

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

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.

The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering. Braden R. Allenby

Pearson/Education

The essays in this volume illustrate the difficult real world ethical questions and issues arising from accelerating technological change in the military and security domains, and place those challenges in the context of rapidly shifting geopolitical and strategic frameworks. Specific technologies such as autonomous robotic systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, cybersecurity and cyberconflict, and biotechnology are highlighted, but the essays are chosen so that the broader implications of fundamental systemic change are identified and addressed. Additionally, an important consideration with many of these technologies is that even if they are initially designed and intended for military or security applications, they inevitably spread to civil society, where their application may raise very different ethical questions around such core values as privacy, security from criminal behaviour, and state police power. Accordingly, this volume is of interest to students of military or security domains, as well as to those interested in technology and society, and the philosophy of technology.

The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies (The Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies)

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Routledge

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Industrial Ecology

Industrial Ecology

Design for Environment

Industrial Ecology and the Automobile

Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation

The Techno-Human Condition

The Techno-Human Condition

The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering. Braden R. Allenby

The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies (The Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies)