Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle From Urban Planning to Recycling / edited by Roberto Álvarez Fernández, Sergio Zubelzu, Rodrigo Martínez.

This book analyzes the relationship between large-scale industrial activity and the carbon footprint, and provides a theoretical framework and tools to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage of their life cycles, including urban-planning master plans, recycling activi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Álvarez Fernández, Roberto (Editor), Zubelzu, Sergio (Editor), Martínez, Rodrigo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Green Energy and Technology,
Springer eBook Collection.
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Summary:This book analyzes the relationship between large-scale industrial activity and the carbon footprint, and provides a theoretical framework and tools to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage of their life cycles, including urban-planning master plans, recycling activities, project and building stages as well as managing and manufacturing. Discussing the main preventative and corrective measures that can be utilized, it includes case studies, reports on technological developments and examples of successful policies to provide inspiration to readers. This book collects the contributions of authors from four continents, in order to analyze from as many as possible points of view and using many different approaches, the problem of sustainability in today’s globalized world.
Physical Description:XII, 550 p. 202 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783319549842
ISSN:1865-3529
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-54984-2