ISBN : 9781041069225
Author : Mark Everard
Publisher : CRC Press
Year : 2026
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : We live in a material world – one with a rising population dependent upon a base of natural resources that is already seriously depleted and declining rapidly. This book considers the societal use of materials: historically, in the less-than-optimal present and aspirationally as a central thread in addressing wider sustainable development challenges. It accounts for linked chemical, physical and socio-economic consequences right through value chains, from raw material extraction through manufacture and use and onwards to post-use.