Sustainable Metals Management Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy - Gleich, Arnim von.; Ayres, Robert U.; Gößling-Reisemann, Stefan; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Sustainability and Metals -- Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry -- Metallic Raw Materials - Constituents of Our Economy -- Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability -- Aluminium -- Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry -- Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry? -- An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries -- Entropy as a Measure for Resource Consumption - Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production -- Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover -- Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial -- Metals Materials Flows -- Limits of Metal Recycling -- Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling -- Optimisation Possibilities of Copper Smelting and -Processing -- The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk GMBH's Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System -- Sustainable Use of Copper -- Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects -- Heavy Metals in the Netherlands -- Toxic Effects of Metals and Metal Compounds -- Metallurgical Plants and Chemicals Industry as Challenges to Environmental Protection in the 19th Century -- Copper Mining and Metallurgy in Prehistoric and the More Recent Past -- Social and Ecological Consequences of the Bauxite-Energy-Aluminium Product Line -- The Ok Tedi Pages -- Product Design and Use -- Metals and Plastics - Competition or Synergy? -- Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi -- Recycling of Electronic Waste Material -- Sustainable Development of Microelectronics Industry -- The Role of Metals for Designing Products and Solutions in the Context of a Sustainable Society.
Keywords: Metals; Sustainable development; Environmental management; Environmental economics; Pollution prevention; Climate change; Metallic Materials; Sustainable Development; Environmental Management; Environmental Economics; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Climate Change