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Copper Cycles. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, March 2009, Pages: 340
The environmental impacts of resource use in society
are being increasingly scrutinised, particularly in
response to the challenge of climate change. We need
to better understand the impacts of producing and
recycling metals through the global economy.
Traditional approaches, namely, those seeking
increased efficiency largely within processing
technologies, must be broadened to consider the
entire production and consumption cycle. With copper
as its focus, this book develops a multi-scale
framework for characterising material flows through
the production and consumption cycle. Models of
material flows and of existing and new copper
processing technologies are linked to inform
environmental performance, based on a Life Cycle
Impact Assessment approach. The analysis shows how an
increased recycling of copper reduces environmental
impacts far more dramatically than introducing new
technology for processing terrestrial ores, which
themselves are declining in quality. This data-rich
work will be of interest to academics, minerals
industry professionals and policy makers with an
interest in developing strategies to deliver resource
governance for sustainability.
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