Sustainable Development - Energy, Engineering and Technologies - Manufacturing and Environment

Edited by Chaouki Ghenai

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Abstract: The technological advancement of our civilization has created a consumer society expanding faster than the planet’s resources allow, with our resource and energy needs rising exponentially in the past century. Securing the future of the human race will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the ecosphere of our planet can support. Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable exploitation of resources. However, sustainable development offers an approach that would be practical to fuse with the managerial strategies and assessment tools for policy and decision makers at the regional planning level. Environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers and economists will have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our society’s present needs without compromising the security of future generations.

JEL-codes: Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-953-51-0165-9
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Albedo Effect and Energy Efficiency of Cities

Aniceto Zaragoza

An Economy-Environment Integrate Statistic System

Giani Gradinaru

Assessing Long Term Sustainability of Global Supply of Natural Resources and Materials

Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir

Conjunctive Use of Surface Water and Groundwater for Sustainable Water Management

Mahesha Amai and H. Ramesh

Indicators of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Use of Plant Diversity for Sustainable Development

Edmundo Garcia-Moya, Columba Monroy-Ortiz, Angelica Romero-Manzanares and Rafael Monroy

Integrated Water Resources Management - Key to Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources: Case of Malawi

Victor Chipofya

Life Cycle Analysis of Wind Turbine

Chaouki Ghenai

Sustainability Assessment of Technologies - An Integrative Approach

Armin Grunwald

Sustainable Engineering and Eco Design

Chaouki Ghenai

Sustainable Performance and Environmental Health in Brazil: How to Understand and Measure!

Marcio Ricardo Costa Dos Santos

The Kaolin Residue and Its Use for Production of Mullite Bodies

Maria Isabel Brasileiro, Romualdo Menezes, Andre Rodrigues, Gelmires Neves and Lisiane Santana

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DOI: 10.5772/1404

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