Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open
Future buildings, vehicles, products and equipment - made efficiently and made with less new material
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2011
Uit Cambridge Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-906860-07-3 (ISBN)
Uit Cambridge Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-906860-07-3 (ISBN)
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Materials, transformed from natural resources into the buildings, equipment, vehicles and goods that underpin our remarkable lifestyles, are made with amazing efficiency. But our growing demand is not sustainable, so this optimistic, entertaining and richly informed book evaluates all the options... with both eyes open.
Shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.
Materials support the excellent lifestyle we have in the West. We make them efficiently, but they’re still environmentally harmful. Production of just five materials steel, aluminium, paper, plastics, cement accounts for 55% of industrial emissions. And demand for materials will double by 2050. Can we continue to live well but use less materials? So far people have considered the problem with only one eye open, hoping for a magic solution (such as carbon capture and storage).
But with both eyes open we have a whole new set of options. Rather than making more materials, we can use them more wisely
– with less material, keeping them for longer, re-using their parts and more. These options make a huge difference: we really could set up our children with a more sustainable life, without compromising our own.
Shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.
Materials support the excellent lifestyle we have in the West. We make them efficiently, but they’re still environmentally harmful. Production of just five materials steel, aluminium, paper, plastics, cement accounts for 55% of industrial emissions. And demand for materials will double by 2050. Can we continue to live well but use less materials? So far people have considered the problem with only one eye open, hoping for a magic solution (such as carbon capture and storage).
But with both eyes open we have a whole new set of options. Rather than making more materials, we can use them more wisely
– with less material, keeping them for longer, re-using their parts and more. These options make a huge difference: we really could set up our children with a more sustainable life, without compromising our own.
Julian Allwood is a Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the Low Carbon Materials Processing research group. Jonathan Cullen is University Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Engineering Department. They both have extensive practical experience working in the engineering industry, as well as taking part in numerous research projects.
The world of materials
With one eye open
With both eyes open
Other materials
Creating sustainable material future
References
Index
Acknowledgements
About the authors
| Reihe/Serie | without the hot air |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Hundreds of colour photos, diagrams and graphs throughout |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 203 x 230 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-906860-07-6 / 1906860076 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-906860-07-3 / 9781906860073 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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