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Sustainable Metals Management

Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Arnim Gleich

    1. University of Bremen, Germany

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  2. Robert U. Ayres

    1. INSEAD, Fontainebleau Cedex, France

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  3. Stefan Gößling-Reisemann

    1. University of Bremen, Germany

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  • 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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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bremen, Germany

    Arnim Gleich, Stefan Gößling-Reisemann

  • INSEAD, Fontainebleau Cedex, France

    Robert U. Ayres

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