Sustainable Metals Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Sustainability and Metals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry

      • Arnim von Gleich

      Pages 3-39

   3. Metallic Raw Materials — Constituents of Our Economy

      • Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer, Markus Wagner

      Pages 41-68

3. Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Aluminium

      • W. Kuckshinrichs, W. R. Poganietz

      Pages 71-96

   3. Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry

      • P. N. Martens, M. Mistry, M. Ruhrberg

      Pages 97-111

   4. Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry?

      • Frank Messner

      Pages 113-139

   5. An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries

      • Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, Andrea Masini

      Pages 141-194

   6. Entropy as a Measure for Resource Consumption — Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production

      • Stefan Gößling-Reisemann

      Pages 195-235

   7. Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover

      • Sten Karlsson

      Pages 237-247

   8. Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial

      • A. von Gleich, M. Gottschick, D. Jepsen, K. Sanders

      Pages 249-291

4. Metals Materials Flows

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. Limits of Metal Recycling

      • Georg Rombach

      Pages 295-312

   3. Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling

      • D. Janke, L. Savov, M. E. Vogel

      Pages 313-334

   4. Optimisation Possibilities of Copper Smelting and -Processing

      • Joachim Krüger

      Pages 335-346

   5. The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk GMBH’s Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System

      • Hans-Christof Wrigge, Hans Albers

      Pages 347-354

   6. Sustainable Use of Copper

      • Michael Scharp, Lorenz Erdmann

      Pages 355-373

5. Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 375-375

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   2. Heavy Metals in the Netherlands

      • Ester van der Voet, Jeroen B. Guinée, Helias A. Udo de Haes

      Pages 377-392

What’s in a name? What, in particular, is metals management’ all about? I suspect that my ‘ colleagues assumed that I would have a good answer, given that the endowed Sandoz Chair I occupied from 1992 until my retirement in 2000 was entitled “Environment and Management”, and at INSEAD I created a Center for Management of Environmental Resources (CMER). Metals are a subset of resources, et voila! However, in all honesty, management, as such, was never my core competence (to use another phrase popularized by business schools). Here comes the shocking secret. We used the word management in those titles because INSEAD is a business school where everything has to have an application to business. For my colleagues at INSEAD management is what we supposedly teach. Good management, they (we) think, distinguishes successful enterprises from unsuccessful ones. For some of our graduates, management is what they give professional advice to corporate clients about. For the rest of our graduates it is the umbrella word that describes their choice of career. The implication conveyed by our choice of words is that metals can be regarded as one category of environmental resources, and that resources – including environmental resources – can be managed, in somewhat the same way that a corporation can be managed. It is not even too far-fetched to suggest that long run sustainability might be a management problem.

• Aluminium
• Sustainable Development
• development
• entropy
• environment
• environmental protection
• metal
• metallurgy
• mining
• organization
• sustainable economy
• industrial pollution prevention
• climate change

• University of Bremen, Germany

  Arnim Gleich, Stefan Gößling-Reisemann

• INSEAD, Fontainebleau Cedex, France

  Robert U. Ayres

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