This textbook provides both students and professionals alike with a transdisciplinary and comprehensive foundation to design responsible chemical products and processes that protect human health and the environment. It serves as a compact guide that brings together knowledge and tools from across multiple disciplines. Readers are introduced to a set of core topics with focus placed on basic technical methods and tools (including life cycle assessment, product and process risk assessment, and thermal safety concepts) as well as on important normative topics (including philosophical, societal, and business perspectives in addition to current environmental and safety legislation). Developed in collaboration with industry partners, this textbook also provides a workable, illustrative case study that guides readers through applying the fundamentals learned to the production and application of a real-world chemical product. Building upon the success of its first German edition published in 1998, this latest edition has been significantly updated and expanded to reflect developments over the past two decades. Its publication comes at a key time when the volume and pace of global chemical production is dramatically increasing, and the rise of social media and informed citizen scientists make the dialogue with stakeholders even more important and demanding. This textbook is a valuable resource for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers that will be tasked with addressing the many challenges and opportunities that are appearing as a result. Covering a wide range of interconnected topics at a fundamental level applicable across scientific study programs and professions, this textbook fills a need not met by many of the other more specialized textbooks currently available.

This textbook provides both students and professionals alike with a transdisciplinary and comprehensive foundation to design responsible chemical products and processes that protect human health and the environment. It serves as a compact guide that brings together knowledge and tools from across multiple disciplines. Readers are introduced to a set of core topics with focus placed on basic technical methods and tools (including life cycle assessment, product and process risk assessment, and thermal safety concepts) as well as on important normative topics (including philosophical, societal, and business perspectives in addition to current environmental and safety legislation). Developed in collaboration with industry partners, this textbook also provides a workable, illustrative case study that guides readers through applying the fundamentals learned to the production and application of a real-world chemical product. Building upon the success of its first German edition published in 1998, this latest edition has been significantly updated and expanded to reflect developments over the past two decades. Its publication comes at a key time when the volume and pace of global chemical production is dramatically increasing, and the rise of social media and informed citizen scientists make the dialogue with stakeholders even more important and demanding. This textbook is a valuable resource for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers that will be tasked with addressing the many challenges and opportunities that are appearing as a result. Covering a wide range of interconnected topics at a fundamental level applicable across scientific study programs and professions, this textbook fills a need not met by many of the other more specialized textbooks currently available.

Dieses Buch arbeitet mit einer Motivation, die fUr viele Menschen zur Selbstver standlichkeit geworden ist und die beispielsweise durch den Satz zum Ausdruck kommt: "Ich will auch etwas fUr die Umwelt tun." Es soil aber auch eine Hilfe zur Praxisorientierung sein, die heute fUr Akademiker mehr und mehr notwendig erscheint. Wer sich an der Praxis orientieren will, muss sich mit deren Erfordernis sen auseinandersetzen. In der chemischen Industrie, die vom globalen Wettbewerb entscheidend gepragt ist, erfordert die Praxis vor allem eine hohe Effizienz bei Entwicklung, Umsetzung und Vermarktung von Produkten. Gleichzeitig ist aber auch die Orientierung an der ubrigen Gesellschaft ein wichtiges Anliegen, da die chemische Industrie in komplexer Weise in diese eingebettet ist. Die Anliegen der Gesellschaft als Ganzes sind dabei nicht nur in den gesetzlichen Regelwerken prasent, sondern drucken sich auch durch das "Image" der chemischen Industrie in der Bevolkerung aus. Je deutlicher die Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen spurt, dass ihre Interessen berucksichtigt werden, desto besser ist dieses Image. Aus Sicht der ebenfalls mehr und mehr globalisierten menschlichen Gesellschaft sind die Anliegen Arbeitssicherheit, Konsumentensicherheit und intakte Umwelt zweifellos von zentraler Bedeutung. Die integrierte Entwicklung von chemischen Produkten und Prozessen soil hier als Ausdruck einer umfassenden Verantwortung und als intellektuelle Herausfor derung im Urn gang mit chemischer Technologie dargestellt werden."