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Sustainable Development Through the Principles of Green Engineering
Pages 53-58

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From page 53...
... . This may suggest that in the complex equation of a growing world population, including birth and mortality rates, socio-political pressures, access to health care and education, cultural norms, and so on, there is an empirical correlation between the rate of population growth and the level of economic development, often equated with quality of life.
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From page 54...
... A brief review of each of these indicators supports the notion that population growth has traditionally had a detrimental impact on the environment. The question, therefore, is how to bring about continued development and improved quality of life in both the developing and developed world without environmental degradation and excessive resource consumption.
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From page 55...
... A design based on the 12 Principles goes beyond baseline engineering quality and safety specifications to sustainability factors, which are considered fundamental factors from the earliest stages of design of a material, product, process, building, or a system. These principles were developed to frame design architecture -- whether molecular architecture to construct chemical compounds, product architecture to create an automobile, or urban architecture to build a city.
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From page 56...
... If a product is environmentally benign but requires hazardous or nonrenewable substances to produce, the environmental impacts have simply been shifted to another stage in the overall life cycle. Thus, designers must consider the entire life cycle, including the life cycles of materials and energy inputs.
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From page 57...
... To address the challenges of sustainability, in both industrialized and, especially, developing nations, where development will be most consequential for the environment and society, new design imperatives must be systematically incorporated into the next generation of products, processes, and systems. In this context, the dialogue between the developed and developing world must include not only a high-level understanding of complex systems, but also the simple elegance of solutions based on millennia of experience and tradition.
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