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1 online resource |
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Eco-efficiency in industry and science ; 30 |
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Eco-efficiency in industry and science ; 30.
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Contents |
Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A Global Challenge -- Global Material Flows and Their Environmental Impacts: An Overview / Uwe R. Fritsche -- Increased Resource Efficiency: The Key Issue for Ecology and the Economy / Michael Müller -- Economic Growth and Sustainable Development / Niko Paech -- Economic Growth and Resource Use / Andreas Breitenfellner -- Resource Protection Policy: An Opinion from the NGO Perspective / Olaf Tschimpke, Benjamin Bongardt -- Legislation on the Protection of Natural Resources: Basic Considerations and Legal Perspectives / Ulrich Smeddinck -- Securing a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials -- An International Metal Covenant: A Step Towards Global Sustainable Resource Management / Henning Wilts, Raimund Bleischwitz -- The Austrian Minerals Plan / Leopold Weber -- Sustainable Production and Consumption -- Materials Efficiency in Product Design and Manufacturing / Mario Schneider, Volker Härtwig, Julia Kaltschew, Yvonne Langer, Kristin Prietzel -- Further Development of a Sound Waste Management -- Strategies to Increase Resource Efficiency / Martin Faulstich, Markus Köglmeier, Anna Leipprand, Mario Mocker -- Developing Waste Management into an Element of Resource-Efficient Material Flow Management / Michael Angrick -- Taking Into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples -- Resource-Conserving Use of the Stock of Residential Buildings to Reduce Absolute Demand in the "Construction and Housing" Area of Need / Julia Verlinden -- Anthropogenic Stock as a Source of Raw Materials: Optimized Utilization of Recycled Building Materials to Conserve Resources / Hermann Keßler, Florian Knappe -- The Importance of Rare Metals for Emerging Technologies / Armin Reller, Volker Zepf, Benjamin Achzet -- Recycling of Precious and Special Metals / Christian Hagelüken -- Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap / Knut Sander, Joachim Wuttke -- The Limited Resources of Phosphorus and How to Close the Phosphorus Cycle / Christian Kabbe -- Concluding Chapter -- About the Need of Resource Efficiency Programmes: The Editors' View / Michael Angrick, Andreas Burger, Harry Lehmann |
Summary |
Factor X: Re-source-Designing the Recycling Society examines the issue of resources and raw materials, from the perspective of sustaining industrialized economies in the face of global competition for shrinking supplies. Although Germany has reduced its appetite for raw materials from some 680 tonnes per million GDP in 2000 to 580 tonnes in 2008, it still is not on track to meet the goals of its national sustainability strategy. Economical use of raw materials not only reduces pressure on the environment but also opens up economic opportunities for individual companies and the economy as a whole, as shown by a modeling study carried out on behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency. The role of recycling management is a key point in this work. This implies that rich industrialised countries will need to reduce their excessive consumption while other countries should be allowed to increase consumption. Human economies must meet each other in a "sustainability corridor." Factor X: Re-source-Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry's Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Germany
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Sustainable development -- Germany
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Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Government policy -- Germany
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Sustainable development -- Government policy -- Germany
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Waste Management.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Recycling (Waste, etc.)
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Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Government policy
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Sustainable development
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Sustainable development -- Government policy
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Germany
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Angrick, Michael, 1952-
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Burger, Andreas, 1959-
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Lehmann, Harry (Environmentalist)
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ISBN |
9789400757127 |
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9400757123 |
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