Factor X: Challenges, Implementation Strategies and Examples for a Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)

Hardcover, ix + 452 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in the Netherlands (not an economy edition). Clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Published without a dust jacket. -- This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world. It discusses solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources, addressing decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry, academia, civil society, and the media. The book presents strategies, concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainable resource use in practice. Following on from two previous titles published on Factor X by the Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), entitled "Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use" (2013) and "Factor X: Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society" (2014), this book further investigates how savings in natural resources and resource efficiency improvements could be achieved, focusing on good practice examples that cover different resource categories, pursue different efficiency strategies and come from different sectors, e.g. innovative products or services, technology, management approaches, systemic approaches, etc. The background against which this work is done has a highly comprehensive span, from the first Declaration of the Factor X Club in the nineties, to the European Commission's Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe that was published in September 2011, through to the German Federal government's German Resource Efficiency Programme (ProgRess I and II) in 2012 and 2016, the G7 Alliance for Resource Efficiency, and most recently the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). -- Contents: Pt. I Limits to Resource Use: 1 Limits of Resource Use and Their Economic and Policy Implications / Friedrich Hinterberger 2 Availability of Fossil Energy Resources / Jorg Schindler; Pt. II Goals and Potentials for a Sustainable Use of Resources: 3 Targets for Global Resource Consumption / Stefan Bringezu 4 Sustainable Land Use Example: Land Take for Settlement and Transport in Germany / Gertrude Penn-Bressel 5 Need for Decarbonising Our Economy / Kathrin Werner 6 Strategies for Enhancing Resource Efficiency / Arnold Tukker 7 Macroeconomic Impacts of Efficient Resource Use / Bernd Meyer; Pt. III Strategies and Policies for a Sustainable Use of Resources: 8 Challenge of the Whole: Creating System Policies to Tackle Sustainability / Harry Lehmann 9 Changing the Priorities: From Labour Productivity to the Efficiency in the Use of Resources / Aldo Femia 10 Establishing and Strengthening Markets for Resource Efficient Products and Services / Andreas Burger 11 Business Models for Material Efficiency Services / Mika Kuisma 12 Requirements of an International Natural Resource Policy / Michael Golde 13 Innovations for a Sustainable Resource Use Reflections and Proposals / Martin Janicke; Pt. IV Proposals for Implementation 14 Reducing Resource Consumption: A Proposal for Global Resource and Environmental Policy / Friedrich Schneider 15 Towards a More Sustainable Use of Resources: A View from the World Resources Forum / Katharina A. Meijer 16 From Resource Efficiency to Responsible and Dematerialized Societies / Jens Gunther 17 About the Need of Resource Efficiency Programs: The Editors' View / Harry Lehmann.…