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1 online resource (337 pages : illustrations (color, black & white) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover -- A New Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Resource Management -- A New Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Resource Management: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 -- Introduction to systems thinking for resource management -- 1 -- What is a system? -- 1.1 Definition of "system" -- 1.2 The concept of "system" across various disciplines -- 1.2.1 The concept of "system" in chemical and process systems engineering discipline |
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1.2.2 The concept of "system" in environmental science and management discipline -- 1.2.3 The concept of "system" in social science discipline -- 1.3 Summary -- References -- 2 -- A new systems thinking approach to sustainable resource management -- 2.1 Introduction: Sustainable resource management -- 2.2 The need for a systems thinking approach -- 2.3 The new systems thinking framework -- 2.3.1 Problem and system definitions -- 2.3.2 System mapping and integration -- 2.3.3 Integrated sustainability assessment -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- 2 -- System definition, mapping, and integration |
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3 -- Problem and system definitions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Purpose statement -- 3.3 Scope and requirements -- 3.4 Data quality assessment -- 3.5 Summary -- References -- 4 -- System modeling and mapping -- 4.1 Resource availability assessment -- 4.1.1 Introduction -- 4.1.2 Methodology for resource availability assessment -- 4.1.2.1 Theoretical resource availability potential -- 4.1.2.2 Technical resource availability potential -- 4.1.2.3 Economic and market availability potential -- 4.1.3 Considering system dynamics in resource availability assessment |
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4.1.4 Resource availability mapping and geographical information systems (GIS) -- 4.1.5 Exercise: GIS mapping for biomass resource availability -- Problem statement -- 4.1.6 Summary -- 4.2 Material flow analysis (MFA) -- 4.2.1 Introduction -- 4.2.2 Performing MFA -- 4.2.2.1 Problem definition -- 4.2.2.2 System definition -- 4.2.2.3 Material balance -- 4.2.2.4 Construction of material flow diagram -- 4.2.2.5 Interpretation -- 4.2.3 Application of MFA to resource and waste management -- 4.2.3.1 Global iron and steel flows -- 4.2.3.2 UK phosphorus flows |
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4.2.3.3 Plastic waste flows in Indonesian cities -- 4.2.3.4 Energy flows within a gasification plant for methanol production -- 4.2.4 Exercise: Material flow analysis of a recycling process for household waste -- Problem statement -- 4.2.5 Summary -- 4.3 System dynamics -- 4.3.1 Introduction -- 4.3.2 System dynamics modeling approach -- 4.3.2.1 Problem and system definitions -- 4.3.2.2 Model development -- 4.3.2.3 Analysis -- 4.3.2.4 Recommendations -- 4.3.3 Causal loop diagram -- 4.3.4 Stock-and-flow diagram -- 4.3.5 Application of system dynamics to resource and waste management |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2024). |
| Subject |
System theory.
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Systems engineering.
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Théorie des systèmes.
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Ingénierie des systèmes.
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systems engineering.
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| Added Author |
Hernandez, Elias Martinez, author.
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Yamaguchi, Aki, author.
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| Other Form: |
Original 0323998690 9780323998697 (OCoLC)1423131670 |
| ISBN |
9780323999397 (electronic bk.) |
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0323999395 (electronic bk.) |
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9780323998697 |
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0323998690 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000077345583 |
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AU@ 000077343334 |
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