Materials and Sustainable Development Chapter 1
First chapter from Michael F Ashby’s book “Materials and Sustainable Development”. Bottom Line Up Front I rate this 5.7. Many very good visuals show that we’re using rarer materials and more of them.t Summary Michael starts by defining sustainable development. Not everyone perceives sustainable development the same way. Environment, Economy, Society. Development, in a purely technical sense, is just economic growth. Environment is something to be exploited to help progress society from farmers to industrial and beyond....