Growing role of concrete in sand and climate crises
Summary: Concrete production poses multiple sustainability challenges, including resource over-exploitation and climate change. Here we show that growing global demand for buildings and infrastructure over the past three decades has quadrupled concrete production, reaching ∼26 Gt/year in 2020. As a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-05-01
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Series: | iScience |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223008593 |