Technology, humans and society [[electronic resource] ] : toward a sustainable world / / Richard C. Dorf

• Autore: Dorf Richard C
• Pubblicazione: San Diego, : Academic Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (519 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - Social aspects; Sustainable development
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Technology, Humans, and Society: Toward a Sustainable World; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; About the Author; Preface; Chapter 1. Sustainability, Economics, and the Environment; 1.1 Sustainability; 1.2 Environmental Impacts; 1.3 Population; 1.4 Sustaining the Environment; 1.5 Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect; 1.6 Economics; 1.7 Envisioning and Implementation of a Sustainable Society; 1.8 Dynamic Aspects of Sustainability; 1.9 Two Cultures-Or Three Filters?; Chapter 2. Business; 2.1 Business Firms in the New Millennium; 2.2 Corporate Environmentalism ; 2.3 The Three Factors of Quality of Life2.4 Its Easier to Say Green Than Be Green; 2.5 Natural Capitalism; 2.6 Green and Competitive; 2.7 How Much Environmental Damage Is Too Much?; 2.8 Profit; 2.9 Managing the Business Interest; Chapter 3. Science, Technology, and Progress; 3.1 Science and Technology; 3.2 Technology; 3.3 Technological Systems and Innovation; 3.4 Thomas A. Edison: Innovator, Businessman, and Engineer; 3.5 Social Goals; 3.6 The Benefits of Technology; 3.7 Technology and Social Progress; 3.8 Positive and Negative Outcomes of Technology; 3.9 Technology and Developing Nations ; 3.10 Limits to Technological Solutions3.11 Pear Nature, Not Technology; Chapter 4. Sustainable and Appropriate Technologies; 4.1 Sustainability and Technology; 4.2 Sustainability versus Unsustainability; 4.3 Selecting an Appropriate Technology; 4.4 Appropriate Technology; Chapter 5. Business and Technology Methods; 5.1 Sustainable Business Practices; 5.2 Eco-Efficiency; 5.3 Achieving Eco-Efficiency through Design for the Environment; 5.4 Design for Environment; 5.5 Designing Green Products; 5.6 Green Products; 5.7 Green Manufacturing; 5.8 Green Marketing; 5.9 Environmental Effects ; 5.10 Information Technology in Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 6. Engineering Design and innovation; 6.1 Engineering; 6.2 Engineering Design Methods; 6.3 The Design Process; 6.4 The House of Quality; 6.5 Discontinuous Innovation; Chapter 7. Business and the Corporation; 7.1 Green Companies; 7.2 Building a Business Model; 7.3 An Entrepreneurial Future; 7.4 Measures of Corporate Sustainability Efforts; 7.5 Managing the Value Chain; 7.6 Four Visions of the Century Ahead; 7.7 System Design for a Post-Corporate World; Chapter 8. Financial and Cost issues in Sustainable Business and Government ; 8.1 Financing Sustainable Business8.2 Internalizing Environmental Costs; 8.3 Tradable Permits; 8.4 Innovation and Environmental Sustainability; 8.5 Life-Cycle Costs; 8.6 Risk, Safety, and Health Factors; 8.7 Cost-Benefit Analysis; Chapter 9. Energy, Environment, Economy, and Society; 9.1 Energy; 9.2 Energy and the Environment; 9.3 Energy Technology, Efficiency, and Efficacy; 9.4 Energy and Government; 9.5 The Energy Systems Model of Society; Chapter 10. Coal; 10.1 History of Coal Use; 10.2 Coal and the Environment; 10.3 Coal Technology; Chapter 11. Petroleum and Natural Gas; 11.1 Petroleum ; 11.2 Petroleum Resources and Prices
• Sommario/riassunto: A number of factors, from soaring fuel prices to genetically modified agricultural products, have greatly refocused worldwide attention on the interrelationship between technology and society and the necessity for sustainable engineering and business practices. Technology, Humans, and Society focuses on building a model for business and engineering that will lead to a sustainable world. The challenge for engineering is to develop new technologies that enable economic growth and do not deplete irreplaceable resources and destroy ecological systems.No longer solely the domain of
• Titolo autorizzato: Technology, humans and society
• ISBN: 1-281-03815-6; 9786611038151; 0-08-051865-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783139703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sustainable world series.