Acknowledgements. Foreword. Preface. Part I: Sustainability and Metals.- 1. Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry; A. von Gleich.- 2. Metallic Raw Materials - Constituents of our Economy; F.-W. Wellmer, M. Wagner.- Part II: Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability.- 3. Aluminium; W. Kuckshinrichs, W.R. Poganietz.- 4. Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry; P.N. Martens et al.- 5. Towards A Sustainable Copper Industry; F. Messner.- 6. An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries; R.U. Ayres et al.- 7. Entropy as a Measure for Resource Use - Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production; S. Goessling-Reisemann.- 8. Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover; S. Karlsson.- 9. Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial; A. von Gleich et al.- Part III: Metals Materials Flows.- 10. Limits of Metal Recycling; G. Rombach.- 11. Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling; D. Janke et al.- 12. Optimisation Possibilities of Cupper Smelting and - Processing; J. Krueger.- 13. The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk Gmbh's Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System; H.-C. Wrigge, H. Albers.- 14. Sustainable Use of Copper; M. Scharp, L. Erdmann.- Part IV: Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects.- 15. Heavy Metals in the Netherlands; E. van der Vloet et al.- 16. Toxic Effects of Metals and Metal Compounds; P. Wardenbach.- 17. Metallurgical Plants and Chemicals Industry asChallenges to Environmental Protection in the 19th Century; A. Andersen.- 18. Copper Mining and Metallurgy in Prehistoric and the More Recent Past; J. Krueger.- 19. Social and Ecological Consequences of the Bauxite-Energy-Aluminium Product Line; C. Mueller-Plantenberg.- 20. The Ok Tedi Pages; K. Baumgardt.- Part V: Product Design and Use.- 21. Metals and Plastics - Competition or Synergy?; M. Baitz, M.-A. Wolf.- 22. Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi; S. Schaeper.- 23. Recycling of Electronic Waste Material; M. Teller.- 24. Sustainable Development of Microelectronics Industry; H. Griese et al.- 25. The Role of Metals for Designing Products and Solutions in the Context of a Sustainable Society; W.R. Stahel.