Sustainable Materials Science - Environmental Metallurgy

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Jean-Pierre Birat is a metallurgist, who discovered environmental issues as a researcher with a major steel producer. He is a graduate of the Paris School of Mines and UC Berkeley. He has worked in France (IRSID, ArcelorMittal Research)), Japan and Belgium (ESTEP), headed the ULCOS program and has been organizing the Materials and Society conferences for 14 years. He teaches the content of this book at the University of Science and Technology of Beijing.

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The book examines how materials relate to society with complex metrics, but also, more deeply, how they generate eco-social services, and, finally, have agency along with the people who use them and invent them (Actor Network Theory).