Environmental Carbon Footprints: Industrial Case Studies

Environmental Carbon Footprints: Industrial Case Studies provides a wide range of industrial case-studies, beginning with textiles, energy systems and bio-fuels. Each footprint is associated with background information, scientific consensus and the reason behind its invention, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges and limitations. More importantly, applications of each indicator/framework in various industrial sectors and their associated challenges are presented. As case studies are the most flexible of all research designs, this book allows researchers to retain the holistic characteristics of real-life events while investigating empirical events.

Includes case studies from various industries, such as textiles, energy systems and conventional and bio-fuelsProvides the calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges and limitations for determining carbon footprints on an industry by industry basisPresents the background information, scientific consensus and reason behind each case study

1. Organizational Carbon Footprint case studies in different industrial set ups
2. Carbon footprint of textile products
3. Carbon footprint of agricultural products
4. Carbon footprint of grocery products
5. Carbon footprint of consumer products
6. Carbon footprint of food products
7. Carbon footprints of hotels
8. Carbon footprint assessment of buildings
9. Carbon footprint of plastic products
10. Carbon footprint of packaging
11. Carbon footprint of energy systems
12. Carbon footprint of bio-energy systems
13. Carbon footprint estimation of conventional and bio-fuels
14. Carbon footprint of shopping bags
15. Carbon footprint of electronic products