Autore	Portney Kent E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina	338.9/27
Collana	MIT Press essential knowledge series
Soggetto topico	Sustainability Sustainability - Government policy Sustainable development Sustainable urban development
ISBN	0-262-33141-1 0-262-33140-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Concepts of Sustainability -- Sustainability and the Roots of Controversy -- Sustainability and Consumption -- Sustainability in the Private Sector : The Role of Business and Industry -- Sustainability and Governments : The Importance of Public Policies -- The Special Case of Sustainable Cities -- Sustainability and the Future.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910797844403321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Disciplina	338.9/27
Collana	Wiley series in renewable resources
Soggetto topico	Renewable energy sources Green chemistry Green products Sustainable engineering
ISBN	1-118-93392-3 1-118-93391-5 1-118-93393-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The growing role of biomass for future resource supply : prospects and pitfalls -- Helmut Haber -- The growing role of photovoltaic solar, wind and geothermal energy as renewables for electricity generation / W.G.J.H.M. van Sark, J.G. Schepers, J.D.A.M. van Wees -- Assessment of sustainability within holistic process design / Alexei Lapkin, Philipp-Maximilian Jacob, Polina Yaseneva, Charles Gordon, Amy Peace -- A mass balance approach to link sustainable renewable resources in chemical synthesis with market demand / Dr. Claudius Kormann -- Early R&D stage sustainability assessment : the 5-pillar method / Akshay D. Patel, John A. Posada, Li Shen, Martin K. Patel -- Assessing the sustainability of land use : a systems approach / Miguel Brando -- Water use analysis / Francesca Verones, Stephan Pfister, Markus Berger -- Material intensity of food production and consumption / Lucia Mancini and Michael Lettenmeier -- Material and energy flow analysis / Goto, Naohiro, Nova Ulhasanah, Hirotsugu Kamahara, Udin Hasanudin, Ryuichi Tachibana, Koichi Fujie -- Exergy and cumulative exergy use analysis / Sofie Huysman, Thomas Schaubroeck, Jo Dewulf -- Carbon and environmental footprint methods for renewables-based products and transition pathways to 2050 / Geoffrey P. Hammond -- Tracking supply and demand of biocapacity through ecological footprint accounting / David Lin, Alessandro Galli, Michael Borucke, Elias Lazarus, Nicole Grunewald, Jon Martindill, David Zimmerman, Serena Mancini, Katsunori Iha, and Mathis Wackernagel -- Life cycle assessment and sustainability : supporting decision making by business and policy / Sala Serenella, Fabrice Mathieux, Rana Pant -- Life cycle costing / Andreas Ciroth, Jutta Hildenbrand, Bengt Steen -- Social life cycle assessment : methodologies and practice / Alessandra Zamagni, Pauline Feschet, Anna Irene De Luca, Nathalie Iofrida, Patrizia Butto -- Life cycle assessment of solar technologies / F. Ardente, M. Cellura, S. Longo, M. Mistretta -- Assessing the sustainability of geothermal utilization / Ruth Shortalla, Gudni Axelsson and Brynhildur Davidsdottira -- Biofuels from terrestrial biomass : sustainability assessment of sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil / Otavio Cavalett, Marcos D.B. Watanabe, Alexandre Souza, Mateus F. Chagas, Tassia L. Junqueira, Antonio Bonomi -- Algae as promising biofeedstock : searching for sustainable production processes and market applications / Sue Ellen Taelman, Steven De Meester, Jo Dewulf -- Life cycle assessment of biobased and fossil-based succinic acid / Marieke Smidt, Jeroen den Hollander, Henk Bosch, Yang Xiang, Maarten van der Graaf, Anne Lambin, Jean-Pierre Duda -- Biobased poly vinylchloride (PVC) / Rodrigo A. F. Alvarenga, Zdenek Hruska, Alain Wathelet, Jo Dewulf -- Evaluation of wood cascading / Karin Heglmeier, Gabriele Weber-Blaschke, Klaus Richter -- Time-dependent life-cycle assessment of bio-based packaging materials / Maartje N. Sevenster.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910137228303321

Autore	Ehrenfeld John
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina	338.9/27
Soggetto topico	Sustainable development Consumption (Economics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-08937-4 9786612089374 0-300-14280-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Is the Sky Falling, and, If So, Does Anyone Care? -- Chapter 2. Solving the Wrong Problem: How Good Habits Turn Bad -- Chapter 3. Uncovering the Roots of Unsustainability -- Chapter 4. Consumption: A Symptom of Addiction -- Chapter 5. A Radical Notion of Sustainability -- Chapter 6. The Tao of Sustainability -- Chapter 7. Change, Transformation, and Design -- Chapter 8. Culture Change: Locating the Levers of Transformation -- Chapter 9. A New Story for Nature -- Chapter 10. The Importance of Being . . . -- Chapter 11. Consumption and Need -- Chapter 12. To Care Is Human -- Chapter 13. Creating Possibility with Products -- Chapter 14. Presencing by Design -- Chapter 15. Creating Possibility Through Institutional Design -- Chapter 16. Implementing Adaptive Governance -- Chapter 17. The Special Role of Business -- Chapter 18. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455342703321

Autore	Bartelmus Peter
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina	338.9/27
Altri autori (Persone)	BartelmusArik
Collana	Routledge textbooks in environmental and agricultural economics
Soggetto topico	Environmental economics Sustainable development Economic development - Environmental aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-68365-1 9786613660596 1-136-30957-8 0-203-11838-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. Ecological sustainability : how much nature do we need? -- pt. 2. Economic sustainability : how much for nature? -- pt. 3. Sustainable development : what else do we need?.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462338703321