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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.