Strategic Environmental Management for Engineers

Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction You Can Get There from Here: GreenEngineering--Precursors, Principles, and Prospects (BillVitek and Ross Whaley).
Precursors.
Principles.
Prospects.
1. Understanding Industrial Ecology and the MultipleDimensions of Sustainability (Thomas P. Seager).
Introduction.
Life-Cycle Assessment.
Systems Analysis.
Metrics of Industrial Ecology.
Beyond Impacts Aggregation: Multicriteria Decision Analysis.
Design for Sustainability.
Exercises.
2. Life-Cycle Management (Susan E. Powers and Anahita A.Williamson).
Standard Implementation of LCA.
Alternative Approaches for LCAs.
Tools for Conducting an LCA.
Valuing the LCA in Business Decisions.
3. Extending Product Responsibility in the United States:Life-Cycle Opportunities (Hilary G. Grimes).
Extended Product Responsibility in the United States.
Extended Product Responsibility in the Product Life Cycle.
Rationale for Employing EPR.
Implementing EPR in the United States.
Case Studies in Industry.
Consequences of Implementing EPR in the United States.
Conclusion.
4. Pollution Potential Approach to EnvironmentalOptimization--The Case of CFC Replacements (Thomas P.Seager and Thomas L. Theis).
Summary.
Introduction.
Exergy.
Pollution Potential.
Sustainability Metrics in Design: Freezer Insulation.
Limitations.
Exercises.
5. Implementation of an ISO 14001 Environmental ManagementSystem (Peter S. Segretto and Marc J. Dent)
Multiple Criteria for Success.
What Is ISO 14000?
Why Implement ISO 14001?
Elements of the ISO 14001 Management System.
Exercises.
6. Zero Liquid Discharge--The Ultimate DesignChallenge (Timothy J. Barry and Michael J. Tracy).
Water Use and Automobile Manufacturing.
DaimlerChrysler de Mexico--Treatment Overview.
7. Green Chemistry (Mark R. Greene).
Introduction.
The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry.
Expert System.
Assessing Green Approaches to Chemistry.
Green Chemistry in Practice.
Index.