Sustainable engineering : drivers, metrics, tools, and applications / Krishna R. Reddy, Claudio Cameselle and Jeffrey A. Adams.

Section I driver, enviromental, economic and social impacts, and resiliency -- 1 Emerging challenges, sustainability, and sustainable engineering -- 2 Environmental concerns -- 3 Social, economic, and legal issues -- 4 Availability and depletion of natural resources -- 5 Disaster resiliency -- Section II sustainability metrics and assessment tools -- 6 Sustainability indicators, metrics, and assessment tools -- 7 Material flow analysis and material budget -- 8 Carbon footprint analysis -- 9 Life cycle assessment -- 10 Streamlined life cycle assessment -- 11 Economic input-output life cycle assessment -- 12 Enviromental health risk assessment --13 Other emerging assessment tools -- Section III sustainable engineering practices -- 14 Sustainable energy engineering -- 15 Sustainable waste management -- 16 Green and sustainable buildings -- 17 Sustainable civil infrastructure -- 18 Sustainable remediation of contaminated sites -- 19 Climate geoengineering -- Section IV sustainable engineering applications -- 20 Enviromental and chemical engineering projects -- 21 Civil and materials engineering sustainability projects -- 22 Infrastructure engineering sustainability projects.

"Sustainable Engineering : Drivers, Metrics, Tools, Engineering Practices & Applications is the first comprehensive textbook of its kind to cover the definition, methodology and current applications of sustainability and resiliency in the engineering disciplines. The depth coverage is ideal for graduate student across all engineering disciplines and remains a handy resource for the active professionals. This book contains detailed information about the sustainability principles and applications in engineering practice. The book contains the information on how to use the scientific tools for sustainability assessment that will help engineers to select the best alternative for each project or activity. Thus, the systematic use of sustainability and sustainable engineering allow us to contribute towards global sustainable development while solving some of the grand challenges that we are facing today"-- Provided by publisher.