Sustainable Metals Management: Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy

by Arnim von Gleich, Stefan Gößling-Reisemann, Robert U. Ayres

Book Overview

Metals have been vital to human civilization for many thousands of years. Their durability and recyclability should make them ideal materials for a sustainable economy. This book assembles experts from many fields to discuss the conditions and limits of sustainable metals management. The contributors examine the theoretical ideas and goals of sustainability, and apply them across the metal making and trading process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048170109
• ISBN13: 9789048170104
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 610 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"