Ashby, Michael F. <br/><br/>
Materials and sustainable development / 
Michael F. Ashby, Jordi Segalas Coral and Didac Ferrer Balas 
 - Amsterdam :  Elesevier,  c2016 
 - xiv, 312 pages :  color illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1: Background: materials, energy and sustainability -- Chapter 2: What ia s "sustainable development"? -- Chapter 3: Assessing sustainable developments: the steps -- Chapter 4: Tools, Prompts and Chaeck-lists -- Chapter 5: Materials supply-chain risk -- Chapter 6: Corporate sustainability and materials -- Chapter 7: Introduction to case studeis -- Chapter 8: Scaling up bioplymer production -- Chapter 9: Wind farms -- Chapter 10: case study: electric cars -- Chapter 11: Lighting -- Chapter 12: Solar PV -- Chapter 13: Bamboo for sustainable flooring -- Chapter 14: The vision: a circular materials economy -- Chapter 15: Data, Charts and databases -- Chapte 16: Guidance for instructors 
<br/><br/> The aim is to introduce ways of exploring sustainable developmetn to students of materials science and engineering at the bachelors and masters levels. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780081001769 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>MATERIALS -- ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TA 170 .A84 2016