A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism(으)로 돌아가기
A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism, 레이던 대학
4.9
(25개의 평가)
About this Course
Metals are present everywhere around us and are one of the major materials upon which our economies are built. Economic development is deeply coupled with the use of metals. During the 20th century, the variety of metal applications in society grew rapidly. In addition to mass applications such as steel in buildings and aluminium in planes, more and more different metals are in use for innovative technologies such as the use of the speciality metal indium in LCD screens.
A lot of metals will be needed in the future. It will not be easy to provide them. In particular in emerging economies, but also in industrialised countries, the demand for metals is increasing rapidly. Mining and production activities expand, and with that also the environmental consequences of metal production.
In this course, we will explore those consequences and we will also explore options to move towards a more sustainable system of metals production and use. We will focus especially on the options to reach a circular economy for metals: keeping metals in use for a very long time, to avoid having to mine new ones.
This course is based on the reports of the Global Metals Flows Group of the International Resource Panel that is part of UN Environment. An important aspect that will come back each week, are the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs. Those are ambitious goals to measure our progress towards a more sustainable world. We will use the SDGs as a touching stone for the assessment of the metals challenge, as well as the solutions we present in this course to solve that challenge.
최상위 리뷰
대학: ES
•Mar 10, 2019
Loved the Dutch approach to design and sustainability!
필터링 기준:
4개의 리뷰
대학: Andrés Franco
•Mar 20, 2019
I highly recommend this course to anyone who is looking to become a Sustainability expert and wants to be an agent of change in his company, society and planet.
대학: Elizaveta Sokolova
•Mar 10, 2019
Loved the Dutch approach to design and sustainability!
대학: Daniel Berlin
•Jul 05, 2018
Excellent introduction to metals from the perspective of circular economy and a close connection to the sustainable development goals. Very pedagogical with interesting recommended reads.
대학: Marcio Luiz da Silva Gama
•Dec 22, 2017
Offers a new view, realistic, about circular economy and potencial ways to effectively develop sustainable pathways,
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