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Factor X
Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society, Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science 30
ISBN/EAN: 9789400757110
Umbreit-Nr.: 4005383
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 289 S., 17 s/w Illustr., 37 farbige Illustr., 2
Format in cm: 1.7 x 24.3 x 16
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 02.02.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabePrefaceI. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A Global Challenge1. Global Material Flows and Their Environmental Impacts2. Improving Resource Efficiency - Key Question for Ecology and Economy3. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development4. Economic Growth and Resource Use5. Resource Protection Policy from an Ngo Perspective6. Developing a Legal Framework for Resource ConservationIi. Securing a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials7. An International Metal Covenant - A Step Towards Sustainable Global Material Flows?8. The Austrian Raw Materials PlanIii. Sustainable Production and Consumption9. Material Efficiency in the Production of GoodsIv. Further Development of a Sound Waste Management10. The Contribution of Recycling to Sustainability/ Strategies for Recycling and Resource Conservation11. Perspectives for a Resource Efficient Waste ManagementV. Taking into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples12. Construction and Housing12.1. Sustainment of the Existing Property12.2. High Quality Recycling of Demolition Wastes13. Rare Metals13.1. The Importance of Rare/Critical Metals for Emerging (Green) Technologies (Titel Wird Noch Von Reller Verändert, Richtung) 13.2. Precious and Special Metal Recycling: Economical and Technical Aspects13.3. Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap14. The Limited Resources of Phosphorus and How to Close the Phosphorus CycleVi. Concluding Chapter15. About the Need of a Resource Efficiency ProgrammeIndex
- Kurztext
- 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.