Copper Cycles

ISBN-13: 9783639126198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 340 str.

Damien Giurco

Opis

The environmental impacts of resource use in societyare being increasingly scrutinised, particularly inresponse to the challenge of climate change. We needto better understand the impacts of producing andrecycling metals through the global economy.Traditional approaches, namely, those seekingincreased efficiency largely within processingtechnologies, must be broadened to consider theentire production and consumption cycle. With copperas its focus, this book develops a multi-scaleframework for characterising material flows throughthe production and consumption cycle. Models ofmaterial flows and of existing and new copperprocessing technologies are linked to informenvironmental performance, based on a Life CycleImpact Assessment approach. The analysis shows how anincreased recycling of copper reduces environmentalimpacts far more dramatically than introducing newtechnology for processing terrestrial ores, whichthemselves are declining in quality. This data-richwork will be of interest to academics, mineralsindustry professionals and policy makers with aninterest in developing strategies to deliver resourcegovernance for sustainability.

O autorze

Damien Giurco, is a University of Melbourne graduate in Science
and Engineering. His doctoral research, presented in this book,
was undertaken at the University of Sydney. He is currently a
Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures,
University of Technology Sydney where he leads research on
sustainable production and consumption.