Design for Environment
- ISBN-10
- 0135316820
- ISBN-13
- 9780135316825
- Category
- Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Authors
- T. E. Graedel, Braden R. Allenby, American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Description
Appropriate for undergraduate civil and industrial engineering courses concerned with the environment.
Concentrating on the preservation and enhancement of the environment, this ecologically conscious text discusses the effects of industrial actions on the environment, focusing on environmental clean-up from our past while working towards future, environmentally-sound industrial growth.
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Other editions
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- 1996
- 513 pages
- Paperback
- Mcgraw-hill
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