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Sustainability: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives Editors: Heriberto Cabezas U.S.Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development Cincinnati, Ohio, USA [log in to unmask] and Urmila Diwekar Vishwamitra Research Institute Chicago, Illinois, USA [log in to unmask] ISBN: 978-1-60805-429-9 BENTHAM E-BOOK The concept of sustainability is inherently multi-disciplinary because it concerns a complex system having economic, technological, ecological, political, and other perspectives. Consequently, any effort in the area of sustainability involves concepts, principles, and methods from engineering, the social sciences including economics and social psychology, the biological sciences including ecology, and the physical sciences. The purpose of this book is, therefore, to discuss in a coherent and comprehensive manner the salient concepts, principles, and methods relevant to sustainability from the perspective of different disciplines. CHAPTERS 1. Introduction 3 H. Cabezas 2. Principles of Sustainability From Ecology 9 Audrey L. Mayer 3. The Economics of Sustainability 40 Joshua C. Farley 4. Actualizing Sustainability: Environmental Policy for Resilience in Ecological Systems 65 Ahjond S. Garmestani, Matthew E. Hopton and Matthew T. Heberling 5. Human Interactions and Sustainability 88 Michael E. Gorman, Lekelia D. Jenkins and Raina K. Plowright 6. On the Matter of Sustainable Water Resources Management 112 W.D. Shuster 7. Sustainable Infrastructure and Alternatives for Urban Growth 141 Arka Pandit, Hyunju Jeong, John C. Crittenden, Steven P. French, Ming Xu and Ke Li 8. Engineering Urban Sustainability 173 Ke Li, John Crittenden, Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Harindra Joseph Fernando 9. Sustainability Indicators and Metrics 197 H. Cabezas 10. Implications of Thermodynamics for Sustainability 222 Bhavik R. Bakshi and Geoffrey F. Grubb 11. Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Development: Dynamics, Future Uncertainty and Distributed Decision Making. 243 Jim Petrie, Ruud Kempener and Jessica Beck 12. Green Engineering and Sustainability 273 Urmila Diwekar 13. The Case and Practice for Sustainability in Business 310 Beth Beloff 14. Summary 340 Urmila Diwekar Urmila Diwekar,M.Tech. Ph.D. Fellow AIChE,Fellow AIMBE President and Founder Vishwamitra Research Institute Center for Uncertain Systems: Tools for Optimization &Management (CUSTOM) [log in to unmask], Tel:630-886-3047