This book offers a critical evaluation of current scientific work on defining the issue of sustainability and on measuring progress towards a sustainable state. It aims to provide a common understanding of how progress towards sustainability can be achieved by optimising technological development, environmental impact and socio-economic factors. A further objective is to identify the major trends in methodologies that assist progress towards sustainability.

Framing the Issue of Sustainability

Science and Sustainability: who knows best?
Sustainability: Ecological, Social, Economic, Technological, and Systems Perspectives
US EPA/Academia Collaboration for a Green Engineering Textbook For Chemical Engineering
Innovative Industrial Ecology Education Can Guide Us to Sustainable Paths
The sustainable industrial development: reality and vision
Sustainable Pathways
Clean technologies for wastewater management in seafood canning industries
Kinetic Analysis of Aerobic Composting of Tobacco Industry Solid Waste
Preventative Measures in Production from the Point of Sustainability
Environmetric strategies to classify, interpret and model risk assessment and quality of environmental systems
Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs
An Integrated Computer Aided System for Generation and Evaluation of Sustainable Process Alternatives
Pollution prevention and environmental management systems - tools to obtain a sustainable development
Sustainability Metrics
Technology sensitive indicators of sustainability
Metrics for supply chain sustainability
Quantifying technological aspects of process sustainability: a thermodynamic approach
Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Sustainability - The Sustainable Economy Indices
Environment as a factor of national competitiveness in manufacturing
Indicators for sustainable energy development from a negentropic perspective
Sustainability indicators for anticipating the fickleness of human-environmental interaction
Measuring Sustainability - Index of Balanced Sustainable Development
Evaluating the Environmental Friendliness, Economics and Energy Efficiency of Chemical Processes: Heat Integration
Eco-efficiency reporting exemplified by case studies
Interpolation for creating hydrogeological models
Indicators of Sustainable Production
Remote Sensing as a Tool for Achieving and Monitoring Progress Toward Sustainability
Summary of Panel Discussions.