Materials and the Environment : Eco-Informed

Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and Former Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: material dependence	p. 1
Resource consumption and its drivers	p. 15
The materials life cycle	p. 39
End of first life: a problem or a resource?	p. 65
The long reach of legislation	p. 85
Ecodata: values, sources, precision	p. 101
Eco-audits and eco-audit tools	p. 129
Selection strategies	p. 161
Eco-informed material selection	p. 199
Sustainability: living on renewables	p. 231
The bigger picture: future options	p. 247
Material profiles	p. 265
Appendix: useful numbers and conversions	p. 369
Index	p. 375
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