Sustainable Materials Science - Environmental Metallurgy : : Volume 2 : Pollution and emissions, biodiversity, toxicology and ecotoxicology, economics and social roles, foresight / / Jean-Pierre Birat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Birat, Jean-Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: Les Ulis : : EDP Sciences, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Science des matériaux / Materials
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (682 p.)

The present book is the continuation of a first volume, which dwelt on fairly classical materials science and environmental issues. This second volume of «Sustainable Materials Science» explores more broadly the connection of materials with the biosphere, the anthroposphere and society. There is a shift, therefore, from a STEM approach (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to an SSH one (Social Sciences and Humanities). This book is meant for students, researchers, engineers, social scientists and concerned citizens interested in how materials, nature and people interact. This volume concentrates on emissions to air, water and soil, on the connection with health and toxicology, climate change and the c collapse of biodiversity. It shows how materials exhibit a social value, in addition to their engineering properties and economic valuation. Materials also provide ecosystems services in the realm of industrial ecology. They are definitely social constructs. They exhibit agency. Their role, in their value chains, can be described in terms of Actors Network Theory (ANT). This book is unique in its approach of overarching so many fields of knowledge. There are excellent treatises on materials science and on industrial ecology. However, the connection of materials with the social dimension of sustainability is rarely discussed elsewhere and the pluridisciplinary cocktail of approaches used here is truly new. The book positions itself in a worldview of four intersecting dimensions: materials and energy, space and time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 : The special roles that metals like steel or copper play in the energy system -- Chapter 2 : Materials, Greenhouse Gas emissions and Climate Change -- Chapter 3 : Biodiversity and Materials -- Chapter 4 : Methods to deal with materials in a holistic way : Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Materials Flow Analysis (MFA), Sustainability Assessment of Technologies (SAT), etc -- Chapter 5 : Materials and Health -- Chapter 6 : Emissions & pollution: global & local environmental issues -- Chapter 7 : History, geography and geopolitics of materials -- Chapter 8 : Philosophy, social sciences and holistic views about materials -- Chapter 9 : Foresight & Environmental Metallurgy -- Chapter 10 : Conclusions, materials in space and time -- Chapter 11 : Materials, COVID-19 and sanitary risks -- Glossary – Acronyms and abbreviations -- Index