Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering, The, 1st edition

Chapter 1 So What Is Different Now? Or, Why We Need Sustainable Engineering

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Welcome to the Anthropocene

1.3  Evolution of the Anthropocene

1.4  The Fingerprint of the Anthropocene: Energy and Water

1.5  The Fingerprint of the Anthropocene: Human Imprints on Sinks and Material

 Flows

1.6  Conclusion

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

 

Chapter 2 Themes of the Anthropocene

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Globalization and Multiculturalism, Then and Now

2.3  Information and Communications Technology and Systems

2.4 Technology and Sustainability

2.5  Demographic Trends

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

 

Chapter 3 Complexity

3.1  Complexity

3.2  Simple versus Complex Systems

3.3  Different Forms of Complexity

3.4  Understanding Complexity

3.5  Models, Ideology and Complexity

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 4 Sustainability

4.1  Introduction

4.2  Sustainable Development

4.3  Sustainability and Resources

4.4  From Sustainability to Sustainable Engineering

4.5  Sustainability and Global States

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

 

Chapter 5 Homo Faber: Human History and Technology

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Railroad as Technology System

5.3 Technology Clusters 

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 6 Characteristics of Technology

6.1  Introduction

6.2  Product Design

6.3  Behavior of Technological Systems

6.4  The Three Levels of Technology Systems

6.5  Concluding Observations

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 7 Industrial Ecology        

7.1  Introduction

7.2  Industrial Ecology

7.3  Life Cycle Assessment

7.4 Streamlined LCA

7.5  Systems Engineering

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 8 The Five Horsemen: Emerging Technologies

8.1  Introduction

8.2  The Five Horsemen

8.3  The Human as Design Space

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 9 Green Chemistry

9.1  Introduction

9.2  The Chlorofluorocarbon Case Study

9.3  Antimicrobials and Pharmaceuticals as Earth Systems

9.4 Policy Implications

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 10 Sustainable Engineering: Information and Communication Technology

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Framing ICT

10.3  Infrastructure Operations

10.4  Services

10.5  The Virtualization of Work, Digital Nomads, and the Triple Bottom Line

10.6 Virtualization of Work and the Evolution of Institutional Complexity

10.7  Conclusion

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 11 The Five Horsemen, Military Operations, and National Security

11.1  Introduction      

11.2  Thinking about National Security

11.3  Concluding Thoughts

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 12 The Macroethics of Sustainable Engineering

12.1  Introduction

12.2  Framing Ethics

12.3 The Challenge of Macroethics

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 13 The Aral Sea, The Everglades, and Adaptive Management

13.1  Introduction: Adaptive Management

13.2  The Aral Sea

13.3  The Florida Everglades

13.4  Themes

13.5  Adaptive Management Principles

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 14 Earth Systems Engineering and Management: Sustainable Engineering at a Planetary Scale

14.1  Introduction

14.2  Geoengineering

14.3  Urban Design and Management, and High Modernism

14.4  Theoretical ESEM Principles 

14.5  ESEM Governance Principles 

14.6  ESEM Design and Management Principles

14.7  Sustainable Engineering, ESEM, and the Final Principle

Exercises

Annotated Bibliography

 

Chapter 15 The Engineer as Leader           

15.1  Introduction

15.2  Attitude and Preparation

15.3  Lead by Following

15.4  Personal Characteristics

Exercises

 

 

Index of Boxes

 

Box 1.1:  What is Sustainable Engineering?

Box 1.2:  Exponentials

Box 1.3:  Case Study: Corn-Based Ethanol

Box 1.4:  Writing for your Audience

Box 2.1:  Monsanto, Genetically Modified Organisms, and Corporate Responsibility

Box 2.2:  Lessons of the Autonomic City for Sustainable Engineering

Box 3.1:  Plug-in Automobiles and Bio-Fuel: Why Not to Fall in Love with a                                         Technology

Box 4.1:  The President’s Council on Sustainable Development

Box 4.2:  Reserves and Resources

Box 4.3:  Toxicity, Hazard, and Risk

Box 5.1:  Aspects of Technology

Box 5.2:  Technological Determinism

Box 5.3:  The Technological Trajectory of Money

Box 5.4:  Perception and Technology

Box 6.1:  Levels I and II, Revisited: The Shop Floor

Box 8.1:  Transhumanism

Box 8.2:  Who Defines the Playing Field?  Conservation Biology and the Biodiversity Crisis

Box 8.3:   Integrating the Brain with the Machine

Box 8.4:    Using Metaphors and Analogies

Box 9.1:  Principles of Green Chemistry

Box 9.2:  Arsenic Management in the United States

Box 10.1:  A Telecom Firm Perspective on Sustainable Engineering

Box 10.2:  Design for Environment

Box 10.3:  Scenarios and Scenario Planning

Box 10.4:  ICT at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Box 11.1:  Hard and Soft Power in the Modern World

Box 12.1:  Respect and Reciprocity: The Golden Rule 

Box 14.1:  Mining as ESEM