Ecological Footprint Assessment of Building Construction

Ecological Footprint Assessment of Building Construction
Author: Jaime Solis-Guzman
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1681080982

Sustainability is a major concern when considering the construction of a new building project as there is a definite effect of any construction on its surrounding environment. One tool to measure the environmental impact of projects is the Ecological Footprint (EF). Ecological Footprint Assessment of Building Construction: Spanish Case Study presents the methodology required for the creation of an effective EF assessment of building construction projects with a case study of a Spanish project. The book starts with a detailed overview of the EF indicator for buildings including definitions, methodologies and scale applications. This is followed by chapters on dwelling construction methodology and calculation models for direct (energy and water), indirect (manpower and construction materials) resource consumption and waste in the constructed area. The book concludes with a case study that demonstrates the application of all types of EF indicators mentioned in the previous chapters. The methodology and all steps for each calculation are explained in detail, making the book an applicable reference for working professionals as well as an easy-to-understand guide for graduates undertaking sustainability modules in ecology and civil engineering courses

Huella ecológica y desarrollo sostenible

Huella ecológica y desarrollo sostenible
Author: Juan Luis Doménech
Publisher:
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788481436563

Una empresa que aspira al desarrollo sostenible debe analizar cuál es su impacto sobre el medio ambiente, cómo influye su actuación en el empleo global y cuál es su contribución del capital humano. OBJETO... De forma práctica e ilustrativa, y basándose en un caso real, este libro presenta una metodología para calcular la huella ecológica con el fin de que las empresas incrementen su ecoeficiencia, fijen objetivos claros de sostenibilidad, adopten medidas correctoras y, por tanto, participen en la lucha contra el cambio climático. NOVEDAD... En esta edición se hace hincapié en la metodología para conocer la huella del carbono de una organización o de un producto, expresada en toneladas equivalentes de CO2, sin la cual nadie podrá competir con plenas garantías y tener un comportamiento responsable con la sociedad. CONTENIDO - Globalización sostenible - Cálculo de la huella ecológica y huella del carbono corporativa - Los 10 pasos de la ecoeficiencia - El capital natural y los nuevos mercados - El mar como capital natural: una conquista pendiente - Desarrollo social global: la huella social - Huella cultural y evolución sostenible Incluye una completa herramienta en CD-ROM para calcular los diferentes tipos de huella ecológica

Managing the Environment

Managing the Environment
Author: Francisco-José Sáez-Martínez
Publisher: Chartridge Books Oxford
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2016-07-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 191103314X

This book contains some contributions from the VI International Conference on Tourism, Economics and Environment that took place at Malaga, Spain. The book includes a collection of case studies and best practices linking sustainability to tourism. The topics addressed represent an overview of the most contemporary problems affecting the tourism sector.

The Carbon Footprint Handbook

The Carbon Footprint Handbook
Author: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1482262231

Thorough and detailed, The Carbon Footprint Handbook encompasses all areas of carbon footprint, including the scientific elements, methodological and technological aspects, standards, industrial case studies, and communication of carbon footprint results. Written and edited by an international group of experts, the far-ranging topics on carbon foot

Environmental Carbon Footprints

Environmental Carbon Footprints
Author: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2017-09-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 012812850X

Environmental Carbon Footprints: Industrial Case Studies provides a wide range of industrial case-studies, beginning with textiles, energy systems and bio-fuels. Each footprint is associated with background information, scientific consensus and the reason behind its invention, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges and limitations. More importantly, applications of each indicator/framework in various industrial sectors and their associated challenges are presented. As case studies are the most flexible of all research designs, this book allows researchers to retain the holistic characteristics of real-life events while investigating empirical events. - Includes case studies from various industries, such as textiles, energy systems and conventional and bio-fuels - Provides the calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges and limitations for determining carbon footprints on an industry by industry basis - Presents the background information, scientific consensus and reason behind each case study

Global Warming

Global Warming
Author: Bharat Raj Singh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-09-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9535107550

Global Warming has become perhaps the most complicated issue being faced by world leaders. Thus, it requires field of attention for many modern societies, power and energy engineers, academicians, researchers and stakeholders. The so-called consensus in the past century anthropogenically induced Global Warming, has recently been disputed by rising number of climate change panelists. Whatever the uncertainties of climate models are, mankind has to strive towards reduction in the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere in order to preserve natural resources and living organisms by introducing new advances on alternative fuels and other related technologies. This book presents the state-of-the-science fundamentals on the origin of Global Warming and other related technologies that can be implemented to reduce human impact as well as to present novel policies that world leader should adopt. In this book, chapters received from various authors are placed in three sub- sections in a sequential and easy manner so as to strive an appropriate balance between breadth and depth of coverage of various topics.

Repensar la sostenibilidad

Repensar la sostenibilidad
Author: ENRÍQUEZ SÁNCHEZ José María
Publisher: Editorial UNED
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2021-01-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 8436276566

La sostenibilidad, cualidad de lo sostenible, hace referencia a un proceso que puede alargarse en el tiempo. Cuando este proceso lo referimos a cuestiones socio-ecológicas, comprobamos cómo, desde hace ya largo tiempo, no son pocas las voces acreditadas que han puesto sobre aviso del progresivo deterioro ecológico y sus consecuencias perjudiciales para la vida humana. Nuestra obra parte de estas negatividades para repensar la idea de sostenibilidad en sus justos términos, y así dar cabida a una variedad de aportaciones que ayuden a restituimos dentro de los límites ecosistémicos.

Assessment of Carbon Footprint in Different Industrial Sectors, Volume 1

Assessment of Carbon Footprint in Different Industrial Sectors, Volume 1
Author: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-01-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9814560413

Carbon footprint is one of the important environmental impacts, which has received greater attention from the public, government and media. It is one of the important topics of even any government’s agenda as well and every nation is trying its best to reduce its carbon footprint to the maximum possible extent. Every company would like to reduce the carbon footprint of its products and consumers are looking for the products which emit lower carbon emissions in their entire life cycle. Assessment of Carbon footprint for different products, processes and services and also carbon labelling of products have become familiar topics in the recent past in various industrial sectors. Every industry has its unique assessment and modelling techniques, allocation procedures, mitigation methods and labelling strategies for its carbon emissions. With this background, this book has been framed with dedicated chapters on carbon footprint assessment on various industrial sectors. In each chapter, details pertaining to the assessment methodologies of carbon footprint followed in a particular industry, challenges in calculating the carbon footprint, case studies of various products in that particular industry, mitigation measures to be followed to trim down the carbon footprint, recommendations for further research are discussed in detail. This first volume includes the carbon footprint assessment methodology of agricultural sector, telecommunication sector, food sector, ceramic industry, packaging industry, building and construction sector and solid waste sector.

Essays on Port Economics

Essays on Port Economics
Author: Pablo Coto-Millán
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2010-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3790824259

The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics of ports for scientists, students and professionals. The text is divided into five self-contained parts: the first chapter defines the demand for port services using an econometric approach. The second part analyzes the provision of port services using the production, cost, investment and profit functions of various ports. The third part combines the two previous parts in order to propound a general equilibrium approach. The fourth part looks at regulation, efficiency and the existence of ports as natural monopolies. Finally, the fifth part uses Cost Benefit Analysis for an economic evaluation of the feasibility of building new ports or enlarging existing ones.