Environmental and economic sustainability /
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| Author / Creator: | Hardisty, Paul E. |
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| Imprint: | Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, ©2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environmental and ecological risk assessment Environmental and ecological risk assessment series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10070858 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Exponential Era
- Crisis-Which Crisis?
- True Sustainability for This Century
- Objectives and Structure of the Book
- Notes
- Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century
- A Short History of Sustainability
- The Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
- An Overview of Global Trends
- Why Sustainability Has Not Worked
- The Twentieth-Century Prosperity Explosion
- Twentieth-Century Engineering
- Twenty-First Century Economics for the Twenty-First Century
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Quantifying Sustainability for Improved Decision Making
- Balancing Environment, Society, and Economy
- The Environmental and Economic Sustainability Assessment: Embedding Sustainability in Decision Making
- Socioenvironmental Economic Analysis
- Full Social Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Valuing the Environment and Society
- Applying the Environmental and Economic Sustainability Assessment
- Examples
- Notes
- Water
- Introduction
- Water Management in Industry: Overview
- Water Use and Protection in Oilfield Development in North Africa
- Produced Water Management in Oilfield Operations
- Water Management in Mine Development
- Example: Determining a Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Strategy
- Summary
- Notes
- Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
- Introduction
- Carbon Mitigation Risk
- Adaptation Risks
- Example: GHG Management in Heavy Oil Production
- Summary
- Notes
- Energy
- Introduction
- Example: Commercial-Scale Solar Thermal Power in Australia
- Example: Comparing Renewable Energy Options
- Summary
- Notes
- Contaminated Sites and Waste
- Introduction
- Conceptual Framework
- The Economics of Remediation
- Economic Sustainability Analysis for Contaminated Land
- The Social Cost of Waste Management Using Landfill
- Case History: Brownfield Redevelopment in Canada
- Case History: Groundwater Remediation at a Refinery in Europe
- Remediating NAPLs in Fractured Aquifers
- Example: DNAPL in a Fractured Carbonate Aquifer, United States
- Example: NAPL in a Fractured Carbonate Aquifer, United Kingdom
- Discussion
- Notes
- Best Practice for the Twenty-first Century
- Summary
- Technology
- Management and Decision Making
- Into the Future
- Notes
- Index
