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Sustainable metals management : securing our future - steps towards a closed loop economy / edited by Arnim von Gleich, Robert U. Ayres and Stefan Gössling-Reisemann.
- Title
- Sustainable metals management : securing our future - steps towards a closed loop economy / edited by Arnim von Gleich, Robert U. Ayres and Stefan Gössling-Reisemann.
- Publication
- Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 607 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Metals have been essential to human civilisation for many thousands of years. With a broad range of applications they have found their way into virtually every aspect of our daily lives. Their durable and recyclable properties should make them ideal materials for a sustainable economy. But can metals live up to this promise? What are the economic, ecological, and social implications of their increasing use? How can we secure the supply of high-quality metals in the future? Do we need substitutes for scarce or especially toxic metals? We will face many such questions on the path towards sustainable production, trade and use of metals. This book brings together experts from many fields, with sometimes controversial opinions, to discuss the conditions and limits of a sustainable metals management. The ideas and goals of sustainability are not only explained theoretically, but also applied to various stages of the metal making and trading process. The unique feature of this book is its focus on the practical issues of sustainability and the eminent role that companies play in this respect. Experts take a look at the history of metals and metals processing, analyse the current flows and trends of their use, and try to predict future developments in production and trade. Others assess the ecological and social effects of their production and use, highlight the need for international and inter-organisational thinking, and lay out more efficient ways of pursuing this. All the contributors of this book are united by a common goal: making metals an economically, ecologically, and socially safe choice for the 21st century. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the short-term and long-term development of the production, trade and use of metals. It provides a wealth of information on the market, the ecological repercussions of the industry, and the social implications of the production and trade of metals. It is thus a valuable source for decision makers, scientists and campaigners in this field.
- Series Statement
- Eco-efficiency in industry and science ; v. 19
- Uniform Title
- Eco-efficiency in industry and science v. 19.
- Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 19
- Subjects
- Sustainable Development
- Climate Change
- Metallic Materials
- Industrial Pollution Prevention
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Management
- Environment
- Materials
- Environmental economics
- Pollution
- Sustainable development
- Environmental management
- Climatic changes
- Environmental sciences
- Industrial ecology
- Metals > Environmental aspects
- Mineral industries > Environmental aspects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Outlines of a sustainable metals industry / Arnim von Gleich -- 2. Mettallic raw materials -- constituents of our economy / Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer and Markus Wagner -- 3. Aluminium / W. Kuckshinrichs and W. R. Poganietz -- 4. Prospects for a sustainable aluminum industry / P. N. Martens, M. Mistry and M. Ruhrberg -- 5. Towards a sustainable copper industry? / Frank Messner -- 6. application of exergy accounting to five basic metal industries / Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres and Andrea Masini -- 7. Entropy as a measure for resource consumption -- application to primary and secondary copper production / Stefan Gossling-Reisemann -- 8. Dematerialization of the metals turnover / Sten Karlsson -- 9. Sustainability strategies in field trial / A. von Gleich, M. Gottschick, D. Jepsen and K. Sanders -- 10. Limits of metal recycling / George Rombach -- 11. Secondary materials in steel production and recycling / D. Janke, L. Savov and M. E. Vogel -- 12. Optimisation possibilities of copper smelting and -processing / Joachim Kruger -- 13. Hamburger Aluminium-werk GmbH's contribution to a sustainable closed loop aluminium system / Hans-Christof Wrigge and Hans Albers -- 14. Sustainable use of copper / Michael Scharp and Lorenz Erdmann -- 15. Heavy metals in the Netherlands / Ester van der Voet, Jeroen B. Guinee and Helias A. Udo de Haes -- 16. Toxic effects of metals and metal compounds / Peter Wardenbach -- 17. Metallurgical plants and chemicals industry as challenges to environmental protection in the 19th century / Ame Andersen -- 18. Copper mining and metallurgy in prehistoric and the more recent past / Joachim Kruger -- 19. Social and ecological consequences of the bauxite-energy-aluminium product line / Clarita Muller-Plantenberg -- 20. Ok Tedi pages / Klaus Baumgardt -- 21.
- 22. Sustainability-optimised material selection and product design at Audi / Siegfried Schaper -- 23. Recycling of electronic waste material / Matthias Teller -- 24. Sustainable development of microelectronics industry / Hansjorg Griese, Jutta Muller, Herbert Reichl and Karl Heinz Zuber -- 25. role of metals for designing products and solutions in the context of a sustainable society / Walter R. Stahel.
- ISBN
- 1402040075 (hbk.)
- 9781402040078 (hbk.)
- 1402045395 (e-book)
- 9781402045394 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2007451203
- OCLC
- 68259420
- SCSB-12397611
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library