Materials and sustainable development

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ashby, M. F. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2016]
Subjects
Sustainable engineering.
Sustainable development.
Materials.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780128025628
012802562X
9780081001769
0081001762
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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