Sustainable Engineering Principles and Practice
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Description
Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives from engineering, economics, business, science, and human behavior, this text presents an unrivalled introduction to how engineering practice can contribute to sustainable development. Varied approaches for assessing the sustainability of engineering and other human activities are presented in detail, and potential solutions to meet key challenges are proposed, with an emphasis on those that require engineering skills. Each concept and approach is supported by mathematical representation, solved problems, real-world examples, and self-study exercises. Topics covered range…
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Key features
- Has multidisciplinary appeal, with perspectives from engineering, economics and the social sciences
- Adaptable to students from a range of backgrounds, covering both introductory as well as mathematically rigorous advanced topics
- Benefits from nearly 100 worked examples and over 200 end-of-chapter exercises
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333726
- Subjects Chemical Engineering,Engineering,Engineering: General Interest
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 18 July 2019
- ISBN: 9781108420457
- Dimensions (mm): 246 x 189 mm
- Weight: 1.21kg
- Contains: 187 b/w illus. 87 tables 110 exercises
- Page extent: 490 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 04 June 2019
- ISBN: 9781108333726
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