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Books in Life cycle assessment

  • Digital Waste Valorization

    Pathways to Circularity and Environmental Innovation
    • 1st Edition
    • Alaa El Din Mahmoud
    • English
    As global waste generation continues to rise, so do challenges like environmental pollution, resource depletion, prolonged waste persistence, and inefficient land use. Digital Waste Valorization: Pathways to Circularity and Environmental Innovation offers a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of integrated waste valorization techniques and how advanced technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital tools can transform diverse waste streams including plastics, e-waste, biomass, and hazardous materials into valuable resources. Drawing on case studies and emerging strategies, it addresses the thermodynamics, kinetics, and life cycle assessments of valorization processes, while introducing AI-enhanced forecasting, digital twins, and computational materials design to optimize decision-making. Aimed at environmental researchers, engineers, policymakers, and industry professionals, the book promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and data-driven solutions to support circular economy goals. It provides a much-needed platform for global experts to converge on sustainable waste strategies, offering practical insights into the future of resource recovery and environmental management.

  • Bio-polymerized Sulfur for Sustainable Practice in Applied Sciences and Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed + 1 more
    • English
    Bio-polymerized Sulfur for Sustainable Practice in Applied Sciences and Engineering explores innovative approaches in sustainable chemistry by leveraging renewable resources and sulfur as foundational elements for creating sustainable functional materials. The book highlights the potential of bio-polymeric materials derived from sulfur and renewable sources, offering new avenues for environmentally-frie... manufacturing. Additionally, the text delves into lifecycle assessment studies and the principles of a circular economy, emphasizing the importance of sustainability in modern engineering. The work emphasizes the criticality of sustainable practices, highlighting the intersection of bio-polymeric materials and circular economy principles, ultimately guiding the reader towards a more sustainable future.The book also presents an in-depth analysis of bio-polymerized sulfur's role in promoting sustainable development. It discusses how polymerized sulfur can be used to develop engineered products that align with sustainability goals.

  • Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches

    Latest Development and Innovations in Science and Technology Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Daniel Alejandro Rossit + 1 more
    • English
    Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches: Latest Development and Innovations in Science and Technology Applications provides different trends and approaches within the sustainability framework to assess their impact and offer possible solutions to problems facing the global sustainability paradigm. This book evaluates sustainability assessment approaches which support different levels of both decision-making and policy processes, thereby improving the management of natural and human systems. This book explores sustainable firm solutions, the upward trend of sustainability, and its variants.At the same time, different existing approaches are analyzed. These sustainable assessment approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the Product-Service-Syst... (PSS), Circular Economy (CE), Industrial Symbiosis (IS), and Supply Chain (SC). Finally, the book explores Sustainability Indicators (SIs), which are widely used to measure and communicate progress towards sustainable development, along with Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), balancing the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social and economic).

  • Implementing the Circular Economy for Sustainable Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Hans Wiesmeth
    • English
    Implementing the Circular Economy for Sustainable Development presents the concept of the circular economy with the goal of understanding its present status and how to better implement it, particularly through environmental policies. It first tackles the definition of a circular economy in the context of sustainability and the differences in defining the concept across disciplines, including its fallibilities and practical examples. It then goes on to discuss the implementation of a circular economy, including the increasing variety of technological, mechanical, and chemical procedures to contend with and the need for stakeholder support in addition to improved business models. The second half of the book, therefore, presents tools, approaches, and practical examples of how to shape environmental policy to successfully implement a circular economy. It analyzes deficiencies of current regulations and lays the groundwork for the design of integrated environmental policies for a circular economy. Authored by an expert in environmental economics with decades of experience, Implementing the Circular Economy for Sustainable Development is a timely, practical guide for sustainability researchers and policymakers alike to move more efficiently toward a circular economy and sustainable development.

  • The Life-Cycle of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

    • 1st Edition
    • B.M. Peake + 3 more
    • English
    The Life-Cycle of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment identifies pathways of entry of pharmaceuticals into the environment, beginning with the role of global prescribing and disposal practices. The book then discusses typical levels of common pharmaceuticals and how they can be determined in natural waters such as raw and treated sewage, and in potable water. In addition, sections examine methods currently available to degrade pharmaceuticals in natural waters and some of their ecotoxicological impacts, along with future considerations and the growing concept of product stewardship.