Overview
- Contains a broad range of contributions from science, industry, administration, NGOs
- Covers all three main aspects of sustainability: economical, ecological, and social
- Covers historical background, current status, and future options for sustainable development in the metals sector
Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE, volume 19)
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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.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability and Metals
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Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability
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Metals Materials Flows
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Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Metals Management
Book Subtitle: Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy
Editors: Arnim Gleich, Robert U. Ayres, Stefan Gößling-Reisemann
Series Title: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4539-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4007-8Published: 05 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7010-4Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4539-4Published: 16 January 2007
Series ISSN: 1389-6970
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 610
Topics: Metallic Materials, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Environmental Economics, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Climate Change