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Book Synopsis The Refinement of Production by : Arthur P. J. Mol
Download or read book The Refinement of Production written by Arthur P. J. Mol and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of ecological modernization explains the forces, mechanisms and dynamics of environmental reform in modern society. Its value is illustrated in the ecological restructuring of the chemical industry on a national and global scale. Detailed studies on the paint industry, the plastic and polymer sector and the pesticide industry show how and to what extent the environment is becoming a crucial factor in the redesigning of the institutional order of society.
Book Synopsis The Ecological Modernization of the Chemical Industry by : Hendrik Hermann Eckart Ahrens
Download or read book The Ecological Modernization of the Chemical Industry written by Hendrik Hermann Eckart Ahrens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sustainability in the Chemical Industry by : National Research Council
Download or read book Sustainability in the Chemical Industry written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-11-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through innovative design, creation, processing, use, and disposal of substances, the chemical industry plays a major role in advancing applications to support sustainability in a way that will allow humanity to meet current environmental, economic, and societal needs without compromising the progress and success of future generations. Based on a workshop held in February 2005 that brought together a broad cross section of disciplines and organizations in the chemical industry, this report identifies a set of overarching Grand Challenges for Sustainability research in chemistry and chemical engineering to assist the chemical industry in defining a sustainability agenda. These Grand Challenges include life cycle analysis, renewable chemical feedstocks, and education, among others.
Book Synopsis Ecological Modernisation Around the World by : Arthur P.J. Mol
Download or read book Ecological Modernisation Around the World written by Arthur P.J. Mol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of ecological modernisation originated in Western Europe in the 1980s, gaining attention around the world by the late 1990s. At the core of this social scientific and policy-oriented approach is the view that contemporary societies have the capability of dealing with their environmental crises. Experiences in some countries demonstrate that modern institutions can incorporate environmental interests into their daily routines. Elsewhere, economic and political interests dominate development trajectories and environmental deterioration continues, challenging the premises of ecological modernisation. This volume brings together research on ecological modernisation practices around the world. Studies on Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia examine the applicability of this approach to advanced industrial countries, transitional economies and developing countries respectively. Authors critically examine the premises of ecological modernisation theory, assess its value for understanding past and present environmental transformations, and outline paths for designing future sustainable development. Taken together, the studies in collected this volume offer significant refinements, extensions and critiques of ecological modernisation theory and suggest important directions for future research on social and policy dimensions of environmental change.
Book Synopsis Chemistry, Society and Environment by : Colin Archibald Russell
Download or read book Chemistry, Society and Environment written by Colin Archibald Russell and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been several attempts to write the history of Britain's chemical industry as a whole, and countless others concentrating on individual companies. Some have looked at the technical aspects of the industry, whilst others have addressed economic issues. Few have, however, attempted to analyse the effects of the chemical industry on society in general. The current environmental crisis can only be fully understood in the light of its history. This is the first such book to look critically at the whole development of industrial chemistry in the UK in the context of its effects on the environment. No one from industry, government or academia can afford to be unaware of the historical roots of our present dilemma. Industrial chemists can take heart from the realization that their predecessors were remarkably aware of the problems and often found satisfactory solutions. Industrial chemistry has traditionally been seen as the great 'polluter'. Without any attempts at 'whitewash' this book puts the record straight. From academic chemist to industrialist to politician, Chemistry, Society and Environment: A New History of the British Chemical Industry will be of relevance to all those concerned with the social and environmental impact of the chemical industry.
Book Synopsis Rationality and the Environment by : Bo Elling
Download or read book Rationality and the Environment written by Bo Elling and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision-making processes. The result is that within these essentially rational, political assessment frameworks, experts are creating and applying scientific knowledge for decision and management purposes that actually have strong ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Yet these rational political frameworks lack the tools to provide guidance on ethical and aesthetic issues that affect the wider public.This revolutionary work argues that ethical and aesthetic dimensions can only be brought into environmental politics and policies by citizens actively taking a stand on the specific matters in question. The author draws on Habermas trisection of rationality as cognitive-instrumental, moral-practical and aesthetic-expressive, to suggest that truly effective environmental policy needs to activate all three approaches and not favour only the rational. To achieve this objective, the author argues that public participation in environmental policy and assessment is necessary to counteract the dictatorship of technical and economic instrumentality in environmental policy - the failure to take ethical and aesthetic rationalities into account - and, more importantly, how such policy is applied on the ground to shape our natural and material world.
Book Synopsis The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2000/2001 by : Tom Tietenberg
Download or read book The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2000/2001 written by Tom Tietenberg and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an explosion in the literature and research on environmental and resource economics in recent years. This major annual publication provides a cutting-edge survey of current research by the leading experts in the field.
Book Synopsis The New Carbon Economy by : Pete Newell
Download or read book The New Carbon Economy written by Pete Newell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings. Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settings Provides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness and uniqueness to critical scrutiny Historicizes claims of the 'newness' of the carbon economy Covers a range of geographical settings including Europe, the US and Central America
Book Synopsis The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany by : Lutz Mez
Download or read book The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany written by Lutz Mez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technological and institutional capacities for an ecological transformation, but they are lacking an integrated policy strategy to mobilize and organize the existing capacities in favor of structural changes. The focused four policy areas are analyzed in depth and compared by experts from political science.
Book Synopsis Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability by : Bret L. Billet
Download or read book Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability written by Bret L. Billet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the 2007-2009 Great Recession on the consumption of vital environmental services is evaluated via the testing of two ecological theories, Ecological Modernization and Ecological Unequal Exchange. The incorporation of Aristotelean well-being, a large number of cases, and multiple country subsets, contribute to a rich and robust analysis.
Book Synopsis Green Chemistry by : Tatsiana Savitskaya
Download or read book Green Chemistry written by Tatsiana Savitskaya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates in detail the concepts and principles of green chemistry and related methodologies, including green synthesis, green activation methods, green catalysis, green solvents, and green design to achieve process intensification while at the same time ensuring process safety and promoting ecological civilization and environmental protection. Moreover, it incorporates elements of chemical management and chemical education, highlighting chemists’ responsibility to protect humankind and foster green and sustainable development in chemistry. Combining Chinese and Belarus wisdom, this book is intended for those working in the chemical industry who are interested in environmental protection and sustainable development, as well as undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in green chemistry and related technologies.
Book Synopsis Understanding Industrial Transformation by : Xander Olsthoorn
Download or read book Understanding Industrial Transformation written by Xander Olsthoorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When facing momentous societal change, such as the transformation to a sustainable world, the sciences must impress their importance upon the public and convince scientific and policy institutions in order to obtain the means to carry out their mission. This book represents the first attempt to integrate disciplinary views on the topic of transformation towards sustainability.
Book Synopsis Environment, Planning and Land Use by : Philip Kivell
Download or read book Environment, Planning and Land Use written by Philip Kivell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, this work focuses on the practical issues and policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural environments. It addresses the needs to pursue a greater degree of integration between the subject matter and the international frameworks of environmental planning.
Book Synopsis Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century by : Helena M. Jerónimo
Download or read book Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century written by Helena M. Jerónimo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul’s diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological society, the notion of efficiency, the process of symbolization/de-symbolization, and ecology. The second analyzes communicational and cultural problems, as well as threats and trends in early twenty-first century societies. Many of the issues Ellul saw as crucial – such as energy, propaganda, applied life sciences and communication – continue to be so. In fact they have grown exponentially, on a global scale, producing new forms of risk. Essays in the final section examine the duality of reason and revelation. They pursue an understanding of Ellul in terms of the depth of experience and the traditions of human knowledge, which is to say, on the one hand, the experience of the human being as contained in the rationalist, sociological and philosophical traditions. On the other hand there are the transcendent roots of human existence, as well as “revealed knowledge,” in the mystical and religious traditions. The meeting of these two traditions enables us to look at Ellul’s work as a whole, but above all it opens up a space for examining religious life in the technological society.
Book Synopsis The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution by : Louis Galambos
Download or read book The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution written by Louis Galambos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2007, offers a comparative analysis of the performance of the chemical industry in the age of the petrochemical revolution.
Book Synopsis Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation by : Rashmi Sanghi
Download or read book Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation written by Rashmi Sanghi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains the importance of chemistry in solving environmental issues by highlighting the role green chemistry plays in making the environment clean and green by covering a wide array of topics ranging from sustainable development, microwave chemical reaction, renewable feedstocks, microbial bioremediation, and other topics that, when implemented, will advance environmental improvement. Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation provides insight on how educators from around the world have incorporated green chemistry into their classrooms and how the principles of green chemistry can be integrated into the curriculum. The volume presents high-quality research papers as well as in-depth review articles from eminent professors, scientists, chemists, and engineers both from educational institutions and from industry. It introduces a new emerging green face of multidimensional environmental chemistry. Each chapter brings forward the latest literature and research being done in the related area. The 23 chapters are divided into 4 sections: Green chemistry and societal sustainability including teaching and education of green chemistry Green lab technologies and alternative solutions to conventional laboratory techniques Green bio-energy sources as green technology frontiers Green applications and solutions for remediation Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation is an important resource for academic researchers, students, faculty, industrial chemists, chemical engineers, environmentalists, and anyone interested in environmental policy safeguarding the environment. Relevant industries include those in clean technology, renewable energy, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemicals. Another goal of the book is to promote and generate awareness about the relationship of green chemistry with the environment amongst the younger generation who might wish to pursue a career in green chemistry.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Environmental Geography by : Noel Castree
Download or read book A Companion to Environmental Geography written by Noel Castree and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography
