This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process of product. Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life cycle assessment. Impact assessment determined in the degree to which a given product or process features the natural earth system budget. Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like. For chemical, mechanical, and civil engineers.
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* Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life-cycle assessment.
* Focuses on streamlined LCAs, a technique common in industry today.
* Includes unique coverage of the assessment of societal infrastructures (Ch. 12).
* Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like.
* Includes useful checklists for performing SLCA.
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