Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development vs Environmental Engineering: Energy Issues

Man can't live without environment, one with some strictly specified parameters. Despite this known truth, the relation between man and environment is far from peaceful coexistence. From history's point of view, it can be noticed that mankind have repeatedly caused environmental disasters. At first those were purely local. The primitive nomad usually moved elsewhere in the face of an ecological...

On Exergy and Sustainable Development in Environmental Engineering

Humankind faces the most serious challenge ever – sustainable development. A new paradigm based on respect of nature and awareness of natural mechanisms is needed. The concept of exergy and exergy based methods offers a unique potential to support this. Applications to real problems and possible solutions related to environmental engineering are presented.

Environmental problems indicator under environmental modeling toward sustainable development

This research aims to apply a model to the study and analysis of environmental and natural resource costs created in supply chains of goods and services produced in Thailand, and propose indicators for environmental problem management, caused by goods and services production, based on concepts of sustainable production and consumer behavior. The research showed that the highest environmental co...

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Literacy in Iran

Ethics, engineering, and sustainable development

T he term 'sustainable devel-opment' dates back to the early 1970s when certain business and government leaders began to argue that exponential growth —in human populations and industrial-ization — simply cannot continue indefinitely. One such group of leaders, the Club of Rome, issued a report, Limits to Growth, now recognized as a cornerstone piece of literature for the movement. In a tone so...