Muthu COVID-19

Sustainable Waste Management and Air Emission
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-16-3856-5
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air emission, using various case studies. The year 2020 was a historical year mainly due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and it influenced or affected the global economy, business models and the industrial sectors, thus impacting sustainability in various ways. Given that sustainability has many faces and facets, it is worthwhile to deal with the relation (or impact) of COVID-19 on various elements of sustainability. This book presents how COVID-19 has influenced waste management and air quality.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Role of Innovation in the Health Crisis and the Sustainable Post-COVID Europe

Sustainable Management of Biomedical waste during COVID -19 Pandemic

Sustainability and Waste Management of PPEs and Masks: Challenges during and post COVID-19 Pandemic

Triple challenges (COVID-19, CO2 emissions, and public debts) for a sustainable development in Germany – a CGE Model approach

Design and Development of a three layered surgical mask for healthcare professionals against COVID-19

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for COVID-19

Assessment of air quality impact of COVID-19 : Global scenario Socio-economic insinuations and air quality status in India due to COVID-19 pandemic

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecological Footprint and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decades of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.