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Materials and the environment : eco-informed material choice
Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, Materials and the Environment, 2e is the only book devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials. It explains the ways in which we depend on and use materials and the consequences these have, and it introduces methods...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Materials and the environment : eco-informed material choice / Michael F. Ashby |
| Édition : | 2nd edition |
| Publié : |
Waltham (Mass.), Oxford :
Butterworth-Heinemann
, cop. 2013 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (X-616 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- 1, Introduction : material dependence
- 2, Resource consumption and its drivers
- 3, The material life cycle
- 4, End of first life : a problem or a resource ?
- 5, The long reach of legislation
- 6, Eco-data : values, sources, precision
- 7, Eco-audits and eco-audits tools
- 8, Case studies : eco-audits
- 9, Material selection strategies
- 10, Eco-informed materials selection
- 11, Sustainability : living within our means
- 12, Materials for low-carbon power
- 13, Material efficiency
- 14, The bigger picture : future options
- 15, Materials profiles