Sustainability in the Chemistry Curriculum

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Middlecamp, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAndrew Jorgensen, University of Toledo Klappentext Collects current research on sustaniability in chemistry curricula. Zusammenfassung Now more than ever we are facing pressing world challenges of energy (identifying alternate energy), food (ensuring the food supply), water (providing clean water), and human health (enabling individualized medicine); and to solve these challenges will require chemistry and the related chemical sciences. Integrating sustainability into everything we do from instituting responsible operations, to selecting partners for change and innovating sustainable solutions.Industry needs academe to prepare their graduates to ascend the ladder with skill and agility. This can only be done by integrating sustainability expeditiously into chemistry curricula.

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• Authors: Catherine Middlecamp, Catherine (EDT)/ Jorgensen Middlecamp
• Assisted by: Andrew Jorgensen (Editor), Jorgensen Andrew (Editor), Catherine Middlecamp (Editor), Middlecamp Catherine (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780841226944
• ISBN: 978-0-8412-2694-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: ACS Symposium Series; ACS Symposium
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Physical chemistry; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Research, chemistry, environmental science, engineering & technology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental science, engineering and technology, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental