Sustainable materials science - environmental metallurgy. Volume 1, Origins, basics, resource & energy needs / J.-P. Birat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birat, Jean-Pierre, author.

Series:

Science des Matériaux

Science des matériaux

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materials science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Les Ulis Cedex, France : EDP Sciences, [2020]

Summary:

Materials are at the core of our societies and of our economies. They are part of pressing environmental challenges but they also provide powerful answers. It is therefore no longer possible to think of materials from the restricted standpoint of Materials and Engineering Sciences and this book proposes a more holistic vision of their connection with the Environment and with Society. The book is meant for students, researchers, engineers, and concerned citizens interested in how materials, nature and people interact: at the level of raw materials and energy resources, of innovation and emergence of new materials functions, of historical continuity with materials of the past, and of emissions to air, water and soil and thus in connection also with health and toxicology issues, climate change and collapse of biodiversity. The book examines how materials relate to society with complex metrics, but also, more deeply, how they generate eco-social services, and, finally, have agency along with the people who use them and invent them (Actor Network Theory). This book is unique in its approach across so many fields. There are many excellent treatises on materials science and more on industrial ecology. However, the connection with the social dimension of sustainability is still rarely discussed and the pluridisciplinary cocktail of approaches used here is truly new.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: Man and Nature

Chapter 2 Introduction to aspects of Metallurgy and Materials Science relevant to Sustainability

Chapter 3 Materials and tools, a historical perspective from prehistorical times until the present

Chapter 4 Materials comparison: competition or cooperation?.

Chapter 5 Corrosion and oxidation of materials

Chapter 6 Process Engineering from the standpoint of Environmental Metallurgy

Chapter 7 Resources, materials and primary raw materials

Chapter 8 Materials, Secondary Raw Materials and the Circular Economy

Chapter 9 Materials and Energy

Glossary - Acronyms and abbreviations

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9782759824434

2759824438

OCLC:

1233040778