Materials and Sustainable Development

Mike Ashby is one of the world’s foremost authorities on materials selection. He is sole or lead author of several of Elsevier’s top selling engineering textbooks, including Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Materials and the Environment, Materials and Sustainable Development, and Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design. He is also co-author of the books Engineering Materials 1&2, and Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design.

The Concept of Sustainable Development
What is a Sustainable Development?
Assessing Sustainable Developments
Tools, Prompts and Methods
Material Risk
Introduction to Case Studies
Scaling up Biopolymer Production
Wind farms
Electric cars
Bamboo as a sustainable building material
Lighting
Extending Product Life
The Circular Materials Economy
Corporate Sustainability and Materials
A database to support Sustainability teaching
Guidance for Instructors and suggestions for further projects
Useful Data and Charts