Publications

You can find here some introductory documents of interest around the Sovamat issues.

The proceedings of the SAM seminars, held in Seville (2007) and Nantes (2008) are available in the SAM conferences tab

Beyond Life-Cycle Thinking: the SOVAMAT initiative and the SAM seminars, 8th International Conference on Ecobalance, Tokyo, 2008.

SOVAMAT (SOCIAL VALUE OF MATERIALS), AN IMPORTANT PROGAM OF THE EUROPEAN STEEL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM (ESTEP) A paper presented at the EU/Asia workshop on Clean Production and Nanotechnologies in Seoul, 2008.

SOVAMAT, a multi-material initiative. A presentation made at the Open Workshop within the EU-funded project Calcas, Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability, 27/28 September 2007, ENEA Brussels