Environmental Performance Metrics and Ecosystem Condition

By: National Academy of Engineering

When Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, no environmental measurements were necessary to know the seriousness of the problem. Incidents like the Cuyahoga fire raise an important question: Can catastrophes-in-the-making be detected early enough to be prevented? For those in industry, such disasters point to the need for measures that can improve the environmental performance of processes, products, business practices, and linked industrial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309054419
• ISBN13: 9780309054416
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 308 Pages