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NEW Professor Lee Kun-mo Publishes World’s First Sustainable Engineering Handbook
- 2013-11-11
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Professor Lee Kun-mo Publishes World’s First Sustainable Engineering Handbook
Professor Lee Kun-mo of the Department of Environmental Engineering at Ajou University has published his Handbook of Sustainable Engineering through Springer, the world’s largest academic publisher. This book is the first of its kind in the world to provide a comprehensive review of all the major theories and approaches in sustainable engineering.
The book consists of 65 chapters on seven topics, including sustainable production, sustainable consumption, new and advanced materials, water resource management, future sources of energy, and sustainability education and policymaking. World renowned experts on sustainable engineering wrote each chapter.
Professor Lee not only contributed a chapter of his own, but also devised the list of contributors, and reviewed and edited the collected chapters over three years.
“Those who have contributed to the making of this book are globally renowned experts on sustainable engineering,” remarked Lee. “Europe and Japan may be leaders of sustainable technology now, but I am proud to be a Korean author and editor-in-chief of a book of this kind and scale.”
Notably, Dr. R. K. Pauchauri who heads the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize—in his forward to the book praised it as “an excellent tool for brightening the future of sustainable engineering.