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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ashby, M. F. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2016]
Subjects:	Sustainable engineering. Sustainable development. Materials. Ingénierie durable. Développement durable. Matériaux. sustainable development. Materials Sustainable development Sustainable engineering Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.