Materials and the Environment - Eco-Informed Material Choice

"As concerns for the environment grows, there is a corresponding trend to incorporate sustainability into engineering education. Materials and the Environment addresses this growing concern with this full-length text devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials."--BOOK JACKET.

List of contents

1. Introduction - Material Dependence2. Resource Consumption and its Drivers3. The Material Life Cycle4. End of First Life - A Problem or a Resource?5. The Long Reach of Legislation6. Eco-data - Values, Sources, Precision7. Eco-audits and Eco-audit Tools8. Case Studies: Eco-audits9. Material Selection Strategies10. Eco-informed Materials Selection11. Sustainability: Living Within Our Means12. Materials for Low-Carbon Power13. Material Efficiency14. The Bigger Picture: Future Options15. Material ProfilesAppendix - Useful Numbers and Conversions

Report

"I think this is likely to be a very successful text, since it clearly fills an important niche in engineering texts dealing with materials. I have been quite frustrated with the lack of real data available, when discussing how to design products more responsibly ...I especially like the emphasis here on the fact that there are no easy answers." --Blaine Lilly, The Ohio State University

Product details

• Authors: M. F. Ashby, Michael Ashby, Michael F. Ashby, Michael F. (Professor Emeritus Ashby, Michael F. (Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus Ashby
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2012
• EAN: 9780123859716
• ISBN: 978-0-12-385971-6
• No. of pages: 628
• Series: Butterworth-Heinemann; Butterworth-Heinemann
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, Materialwissenschaft, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), ARCHITECTURE / General, AR - Architecture