Handbook of Sustainable Engineering

Joanne Kauffman: Joanne Kauffman is retired Principal Research Scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she served as Deputy Director of the Lab for Energy and Environment, Lecturer, and Co-executive Director of the Alliance for Global Sustainability. Joanne has recently joined the IR3S (Integrated Research System in Sustainability Science) faculty at The University of Tokyo and is advisor to the program’s book series on Science for Sustainable Societies (Springer) Kun-Mo Lee: received PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in 1985. After graduation, he has worked for three years for the US Environmental Protection Agency as a principal research investigator in the area of domestic sewage sludge treatment, in particular, sludge treatment including anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, and gasification.

Education and Outreach: Introduction.- Blueprints for Teaching Ecodesign and Sustainability to University Students.-Ecodesign in Swiss Machining Industry: A Collaborative Learning Process for Effective Outreach and Education.- Implementing New Teaching Models at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.- Teaching Old Disciplines New Tricks: Sustainable Engineering Education.- Youth Encounter on Sustainability: A Transdisciplinary, Multicultural, and Immersive Education Program.- Transdisciplinary Approaches to Engineering R&D: Importance of Understanding Values and Culture.- Sustainable Water: Introduction.- Chlorine Self-Production Plant Solution for Effluent Water to be Used in Irrigation in Gaza Strip.- Fundamental Toxicology Methods and Resources for Assessing Water-related Contamination.- Micro Hydro in Emergency Situations: A Sustainable Energy Solution at La Realidad (Chiapas,Mexico).- Groundwater Contamination: Role of health sciences in tackling.- Sustainable Earth System Engineering: Incentives and Perspectives.- Sustainable Rehabilitation ofWater Infrastructures in Southern Iraq After the Second GulfWar.- SustainableWater Management in Response to Global Changes.- Sustainable Production and Sustainable Products: Introduction.- Ecodesign Strategies: A Missing Link in Ecodesign.- Environmental Quality Function Deployment for Sustainable Products.- Green PCB Manufacturing Technologies.- Eco-Packaging Development: Integrated Design Approaches.- Material Flow Cost Accounting: Significance and Practical Approach.- Product Life Cycle Assessment (PLCA) and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF).- Remanufacturing.- Reuse of Components and Products: "Qualified as Good as New".- Supply Chain Management for Sustainability.- Sustainable Design by Systematic Innovation Tools (TRIZ, CAI, SI, and Biomimetics).- Sustainable Product Design and Development: TPI-Based Idea Generation Method for Eco-Business Planning and Eco-Product Development.- Structural Complexity Management in Sustainable Engineering.- Sustainable Production: Eco-efficiency of Manufacturing Process.- Product Service Systems and Sustainable Consumption Toward Sustainability: Introduction.- Advanced Japanese Service Design: From Elements to Relations.- Design for Sustainability (DfS): Interface of Sustainable Production and Consumption.- Engineering PSS (Product/Service Systems) Toward Sustainability: Review of Research.- Eco-business Planning: Idea Generation Method.- Life Cycle Simulation for Sustainable Product Service Systems.- Modeling Services and Service-Centered PSS Design.- Product Design Considerations for Improved Integrated Product/Service Offerings.- Sustainable Consumption.- Sustainable Design Engineering: Design as a Key Driver in Sustainable Product and Business Development.- Sustainable PSS in Automotive Industry.- Policy and Decision-Making, and Management for Sustainable Engineering: Introduction.- Sustainable Technology Development: Backcasting and Scenarios.- Changing Energy Demand Behavior: Potential of Demand-Side Management.- Engineers and Community: How Sustainable Engineering Depends on Engineers' Views of People.- Impact of New Technologies: How to Assess the Intended and Unintended Effects of New Technologies?.- Life Cycle Thinking for Improved Resource Management: LCA or ?.- New BusinessModels for Sustainable Development.- Strategies for Sustainable Technologies: Innovation in Systems, Products, and Services.- Successful Contextual Technology Transfer and Determinants of Culture.- Energy Sources of the Future: Introduction.- Biomass Energy Field.- Energy from Water.- Ensuring Sustainability of Bioenergy in Practice.- Geothermal Energy.- Renewability of Energy Resources, Energy Vectors, and Energy Technologies forMobility.- Solar Energy: Harvesting the Sun's Energy for Sustainable Future.- Wind.- New Materials: Introduction.- Advanced Energy Devices: Lithium Ion Battery and High Energy Capacitor.- Advanced Materials for Fuel Cells.- Alternative Materials Development Utilizing Advanced Nanotechnology.- Biopolymers for Environmental Applications: Highly Functional Polylactic Acid Composites Used for Durable Products.- Computational Materials Science and Computer-aided Materials Design and Processing.- Mechanisms of Organisms as Environmentally Friendly Materials Design Tools.- Thermodynamics and Resource Consumption: Concepts,Methodologies, and the Case of Copper