Principles of Sustainability
Chapter 5 - Industrial Approaches to Sustainability
Overview
This Chapter of the course will analyze industrial approaches to sustainability. This will examine waste reduction for profitability; contamination controls; “cleaner, greener” methods of manufacturing; process reengineering; life-cycle assessment (LCA); input-output modeling; industrial ecology and eco-efficiency; materials flow analysis; case studies of process integration (e.g. energy co-generation); dematerialization; design for the environment (DfE); industrial recycling and waste trading; and sustainability in forestry, agriculture, and transportation.
Keywords
- Sustainability in industry
- Contamination reduction
- Clean production
- Waste reduction
- Reduced rejection
- Process reengineering
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Input-output model
- Industrial ecology
- Eco-efficiency
- Industrial metabolism
- Materials flow analysis
- Industrial integration
- Dematerialization
- Design for the Environment (DfE)
- Waste exchanges
- Industrial recycling
- Sustainability in transportation
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable forestry
Chapter Parts
- Part 1 - Sustainable Practices in Industry (13:25)
- Part 2 - Life Cycle Assessment (42:40)
- Part 3 - Materials Flow Analysis
- Part 4 - Design for the Environment
- Part 5 - Managing for Sustainability (13:22)
- Part 6 - Sustainable Agriculture (48:42)
- Part 7 - Sustainable Forestry
- Part 8 -Principles of Green Engineering and Green Chemistry
