Overview

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.

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Author:   Braden Allenby ,  Braden Allenby
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 1.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 1.00cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780132127998

ISBN 10:   0132127997
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   21 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780273752165
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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Braden R. Allenby is currently Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, having moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. He is also a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginias Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University in 1972, his J. D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992.

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