Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle

From Urban Planning to Recycling

Rodrigo Martínez editor Roberto Álvarez Fernández editor Sergio Zubelzu editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:1st Aug '18

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle cover

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.

ISBN: 9783319855370

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 8424g

550 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017