Sustainable Materials Science - Environmental Metallurgy : : Volume 1 : Origins, basics, resource and energy needs / / Jean-Pierre Birat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EDP Sciences Contemporary eBook-Package 2016-2020
• VerfasserIn: Birat, Jean-Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: Les Ulis : : EDP Sciences, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Science des matériaux / Materials
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (501 p.)

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.

Table of 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