Engineering for Sustainability: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Design

This book provides engineers with the information they need to design sustainable processes, products, and value streams. It sets out the current existing consensus on sustainable development for four levels of context or sub-contexts: Planet, Society, Business and Engineer. It also deals with all the stages that a design requires: from the definition of the problem, through the synthesis of possible solutions, the analysis and improvement of these solutions, to a l evaluation of the final solution. For cada design stage, the m etodes and guidelines related to the goal of obtaining a sustainable solution are provided. 116 p.: Ill., Color, 24x17 cm., Hardcover