Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle

From Urban Planning to Recycling

• Author(s): Roberto Álvarez Fernández, Sergio Zubelzu, Rodrigo Martínez,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 550
• ISBN_10: 3319549847
  ISBN_13: 9783319549842
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Environmental Science , Business & Economics / Industries / Energy , Technology & Engineering / Power Resources / General , Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development , Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Regional Planning , Nature / Natural Resources , Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Pollution Control ,

Description:... 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.