Materials and Sustainable Development

2nd Edition - June 26, 2022
Author: Michael F. Ashby
Language: English
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Materials and Sustainable Development, Second Edition, written by noted materials selection authority Mike Ashby, provides a structure and framework for analyzing sustainable development and the role of materials in it. The book's 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. There is no completely 'right' answer to questions of sustainable development, instead, there is a thoughtful, well-researched response that recognizes concerns of stakeholders, conflicting priorities, and the economic, legal and social aspects of the technology and its environmental legacy.

The intent of the book is not to offer solutions to sustainability challenges but rather to improve the quality of discussion and enable informed, balanced debate. This updated edition has been updated to reflect new insights, regulatory trends and other developments that have occurred since publication of the previous edition.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. The Background
Chapter 1. Sustainability and Materials – brief histories
1.1. Introduction and synopsis
1.2. Sustainable Development – the history
1.3. Industrial revolutions, Material revolutions – cause or effect?
1.4. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 2. Background: Materials, Water, Energy, People
2.1. Introduction and Synopsis
2.2. Materials – Global Production and Consumption
2.3. Water – Demand and Availability
2.4. Energy – Units and Quantities
2.5. Growth – Linear, Exponential, Explosive
2.6. People and Demographics
2.7. Population, Affluence, Technology and Impact – the IPAT Equation
2.8. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 3. What is a ‘Sustainable Development’?
3.1. Introduction and Synopsis
3.2. What does ‘Sustainability’ Mean
3.3. Defining ‘Sustainable Development’—the Three Capitals
3.4. National Stocks of the Three Capitals
3.5. The Interactions between Capitals
3.6. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 4. The Materials Life Cycle
4.1. Introduction and Synopsis
4.2. The Design Process
4.3. The Material Life Cycle
4.4. The Framework: E-LCA
4.5. Expanding the Scope: S-LCA, LCC and LCSA
4.6. Who is an LCA for? How Present it to them?
4.7. Summary and Conclusions
Part 2. The Material life cycle and its context
Chapter 5. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, E-LCA
5.1. Introduction and Synopsis
5.2. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: The Steps
5.3. Streamlined E-LCA
5.4. Communicating the Results of an E-LCA
5.5. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 6. Social Life Cycle Assessment, S-LCA
6.1. Introduction and Synopsis
6.2. Social Life cycle Assessment, S-LCA
6.3. Social Impact Scans
6.4. Communicating the Results of an S-LCA
6.5. Case Studies
6.6. Summary and Conclusions
6.7. Appendix 1 Social Impact Categories(Table 6.8)
6.8. Appendix 2 Software to Support Social Life Cycle Assessment (Table 6.9)
Chapter 7. Life Cycle Costing, LCC
7.1. Introduction and Synopsis
7.2. Life-Cycle Costing, LCC
7.3. The Steps in Life-Cycle Costing
7.4. Communicating the Results of an LCC
7.5. Case Studies
7.6. Summary and Conclusions
7.7. Appendix A: Software to Support Life Cycle Costing
7.8. Appendix B: Terminology of Life Cycle Costing
Chapter 8. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
8.1. Introduction and Synopsis
8.2. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, LCSA
8.3. The Sustainability Dashboard
8.4. Cost–Benefit Analysis
8.5. Case Studies
8.6. Beyond the Dashboard: The Dilemma of Choice
8.7. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 9. Criticality and SupplyChain Risk
9.1. Introduction and Synopsis
9.2. Critical Materials
9.3. Supply Chain Risk
9.4. Managing Risk, Creating Resilience
9.5. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 10. Circular Materials Economics
10.1. Introduction and Synopsis
10.2. The Ecological Analogy
10.3. Resource Husbandry – History and Scale
10.4. A Circular Materials Economy
10.5. Creating a more Circular Materials Economy
10.6. Getting Real: How Circular can we get?
10.7. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 11. Corporate Sustainabilityand Materials
11.1. Introduction and synopsis
11.2. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability reporting (SR)
11.3. Sustainability and SMEs
11.4. Case studies: Corporate Sustainability Reports
11.5. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 12. Big Issues Involving Materials
12.1. Introduction and synopsis
12.2. Five big issues
12.3. Obligations to future generations
12.4. Summary and conclusions
Part 3. The assessment method and case studies
Chapter 13. Assessing Proposals for Sustainable Developments
13.1. Introduction and synopsis
13.2. Dealing with complex systems
13.3. The assessment method
13.4. Assembling the layers
13.5. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 14. Tools, Prompts, and Checklists
14.1. Introduction and synopsis
14.2. Step 1: Unpacking the proposal (Handout 1)
14.3. Step 2: Stakeholder analysis (Handout 2)
14.4. Step 3: Fact-finding (Handout 3)
14.5. Step 4: Synthesis – forming a judgement
14.6. Step 5: Reflection on alternatives
14.7. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 15. Introduction to Case Studies
15.1. Introduction and synopsis
15.2. The structure of the Case Studies
15.3. Proposals for sustainable development that went wrong
15.4. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 16. Low-Carbon Cement
16.1. Introduction and background
16.2. The proposal
16.3. The assessment
Chapter 17. Scaling Up Bioplastic Production
17.1. Introduction and background
17.2. The proposal
17.3. The assessment
Chapter 18. Wave Power
18.1. Introduction and background
18.2. The proposal
18.3. The assessment
Chapter 19. Is Hydrogen the Future for Cars?
19.1. Introduction and background
19.2. The proposal
19.3. The assessment
Chapter 20. Hand Dryers
20.1. Introduction and background
20.2. The proposal
20.3. The assessment
Part 4. Data and Handouts
Appendix A. Material Property Data
Appendix B. Environmental and Supply Chain Data
Handouts
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