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MATERIALS INDUSTRY: ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: AN OVERVIEW

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dc.contributor.author Khan, Khalid
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-13T09:03:08Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-13T09:03:08Z
dc.date.issued 2010-12-01
dc.identifier.citation Ahmed, M., Bashar, I., Alam, S. T., Wasi, A. I., Jerin, I., Khatun, S., & Rahman, M. (2021). An overview of Asian cement industry: Environmental impacts, research methodologies and mitigation measures. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 28, 1018-1039. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2070-772X
dc.identifier.uri http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/18685
dc.description.abstract Pakistan has not been able to utilize its precious mineral wealth for its economic growth and development, despite having comparatively strong mineral base. The development of material industry is critical and can play a vital role in the economic growth and competitiveness of a country. This demands focused efforts to improve and develop new materials and put to proper use the existing ones. Industry especially materials industry faces a plethora of challenges to its development. This presentation covers various economic and environmental issues at policy, strategic, technical, operational, research and academic level that are hampering the development of material industry. An attempt has been made to highlight issues in major material industries e.g. ceramic, plastic, marble, steel, cement, glass, pharmaceutical etc. the issues will be analyzed in global and local perspectives using different ranking indices manifesting the slow and low development of materials industry. Information like contribution to GDP, employment generation, export potential, in addition to touching the status of the industry from knowledge utilization point of view. The relevant discussion is based on literature review, personal experiences and interaction with industrialists, government officials, and environmentalists and above all the drive from the Pakistan materials society. Keeping in view the current global economic recession, this study is an attempt to create awareness about the crucial role that materials industry can play in economic revival of the war on terror torn society of KPK in particular and Pakistan in general. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Peshawar: Materials Research Laboratory Department of Physics University of Peshawar, Pakistan en_US
dc.subject Materials vision en_US
dc.subject environmental issues en_US
dc.subject economic issues en_US
dc.title MATERIALS INDUSTRY: ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: AN OVERVIEW en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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