Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
TABLE 1
Technology and the environment: characteristics of principal approaches
Relation of
environment
to economic
Primary activity
Time frame
Primary risks addressed
Focus of activity
activity
Disciplinary approach
Remediation and
Past/present
Local and visible environ-
Individual site, media, or
Overhead
Toxicology and envi-
compliance
mental and human risk
substance
ronmental science;
reductionist
Industrial ecology
Present/
Global climate change;
Materials, products, ser-
Strategic and
Engineering; physical sci-
future focus
loss of biodiversity and
vices, and operations over
integral
ences; biological sciences;
habitat; degradation of
life cycle
social sciences; law and
air, water, and soil
economics; highly
resources
integrative
