Streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment - Softcover

Graedel, Thomas E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136074251 ISBN 13: 9780136074250

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

For courses in Environmental Engineering, Industrial Ecology, and Introduction to Design in Civil, Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering Departments. From the author of a best-selling industrial ecology text, this book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

FEATURES

• Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life-cycle assessment.
• Focuses on streamlined LCAs, a technique common in industry today.
• Includes unique coverage of the assessment of societal infrastructures (Ch. 12).
• Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like.
• Includes useful checklists for performing SLCA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0136074251
• ISBN 13: 9780136074250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310