Materials and sustainable development

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This title provides a structure and framework for analysing sustainable development and the role of materials in it. The aim is to introduce ways of exploring sustainable development to readers in a way that avoids simplistic interpretations and approaches complexity in a systematic way.

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Full title :Materials and sustainable development / Michael F. Ashby.

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Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Butterworth-Heinemann
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

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Description:1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : : illustrations, maps

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ISBN:9780128025628, 012802562X
oclc:ocn903490200
LC Classification:TA403.6
Dewey Decimal:620.1/1

Background: materials, energy and sustainability -- What is a "sustainable development"? -- Assessing sustainable developments: the steps -- Tools, prompts and check-lists -- Materirals supply-chain risk -- Corporate sustainability and materials -- Introduction to case studies -- Scaling up biopolymer production -- Wind farms -- Case study: electric cars -- Lighting -- Solar PV -- Bamboo for sustinable flooring -- The vision: a circular materials economy -- Data, charts and databases -- Guidance for instructors.