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Perspective on pursuit of sustainability: challenges for engineering community

Author: Urmila Diwekar

Published in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Issue 7/2015

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Sustainability is a keyword commonly used by researchers and practitioners globally. However, even defining the goals of sustainability is fraught with difficulties and hence attaining it is nearly impossible. Since sustainability is a property of the entire system, engineering sustainability requires the boundaries of the system greatly expanded. The thinking of sustainability also brings in larger time scales. In this article, I present a perspective on journey toward sustainability using systems analysis approaches from various disciplines.

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Title: Perspective on pursuit of sustainability: challenges for engineering community
Author: Urmila Diwekar
Publication date: 01-10-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Issue 7/2015
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Electronic ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-015-0915-z

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