Green Chemistry Avant La Lettre
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Book Overview Long before the foundations of the concept of sustainability were laid down and green chemistry became a hot topic, chemists had already ...
Long before the foundations of the concept of sustainability were laid down and green chemistry became a hot topic, chemists had already been looking for alternative feedstocks hoping to liberate the industry from its dependency on fossil fuels. This book examines one such story. Near the largest French forest in the southwest of the country, in Aquitaine, a network of entrepreneurs of chemists established in the early 20th century the Pine Institute. This curious institution, working at the interface of academia and industry explored new uses for pine resin.
It is used to produce not only solvents, glues, and paper, but also rocket fuels. The pine resin has been one of the most versatile raw materials known to humanity.
This book not only explains the success of the material itself but also of the scientific-industrial network that made it possible to exploit it sustainably over many decades. Did the Pine Institute find a recipe for making the future more sustainable in the post-oil world? It carefully examines its organisational features, relations with the local economy, as well as the core elements of resin chemistry as an independent discipline prefigurating sustainable chemistry of today.
This unique book constitutes an original and pioneering work on the origins of some of the ideas that are being labeled today as green or sustainable chemistry. It establishes a bridge between two worlds, explaining in detail the history of a sustainable scientific discipline in its institutional and economic setting accounting for the complexity of the relations between stakeholders and of the knowledge circulation patterns. In other words, the book fills a gap in the emerging field of social studies of scientific sustainability.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 378 | Language: English | Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC | ISBN: 9811252858
FormatHardcover
Pages378
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9811252858
EAN9789811252853
PublisherWORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
Publication Date2024-07-28
Edition1
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.49 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.88 Inches
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