Materials and Sustainable Development
- 2nd Edition - June 26, 2022
- Author: Michael F. Ashby
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 3 6 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 5 4 6 - 8
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Request a sales quoteMaterials 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.
- Describes sustainable development in increasingly detailed progression, from a broad overview to specific tools and methods
- Includes updated chapter length case studies on topics such as biopolymers, electric cars, bamboo, and lighting that vividly illustrate the sustainable development process from a materials perspective
- Covers business and economic aspects in chapters on corporate sustainability and the "circular materials economy"
Students of materials science and sustainable engineering at the undergraduate and graduate level, including interdisciplinary courses and programs in sustainability; materials and design engineers
- 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
- Index
- No. of pages: 584
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: June 26, 2022
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323983617
- eBook ISBN: 9780323985468
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Michael F. Ashby
Mike Ashby is one of the world’s foremost authorities on materials selection. He is sole or lead author of several of Elsevier’s top selling engineering textbooks, including Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Materials and the Environment, Materials and Sustainable Development, and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also co-author of the books Engineering Materials 1&2, and Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design.
Affiliations and expertise
Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UKRead Materials and Sustainable Development on ScienceDirect