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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, man
agement 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).
List of contents
Degrowth.- Circular Economy.- Justice, Equitable Access to Resources, Topic of Refugees.- Financial System.- Educational System.- Repair, social innovation.- Planetary boundaries revision.- International challenges for a resource efficient world.- Necessities for a resource efficient Europe.- Megatrends.- UBA Resource Commission.- Data, indicators, targets (material, water, land) .- Critical resources.- India (National Resource Panel) .- Implementing resource efficiency in Europe.- Circular economy (package) .-Nexus.- The resource efficiency agenda in Germany (incl. German regions) .- NL-Regional Examples.-International, Good Examples ("Resource EfficienzY -Atlas").- Finland Households.- Austria Life Cycle Tower.- Examples from the European Network of Resource Efficiency Agencies (ERF 2014, Focus: cleaner production) .- Resource Panel Indien, Gebäude Beispiel New Dehli.- Factor X housing (system-approach, regional solutions) .- Resource efficient design.- Product Service Systems, Design.- Urbaner Umweltschutz mit Schwerpunkt Stoffströme/Metabolismen in der Stadt.- Sustainable Chemistry, Chemistry-leasing.- Additional: Statements in in Laudato si (Pope's Environmental Enzyclica) concerning resources.
About the author
Nick Evans ist orthopädischer Chirurg und Sportmediziner. Als aktiver und erfolgreicher Bodybuilder hat er Beiträge in zahlreichen Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht und gilt als Experte auf dem Gebiet des Krafttrainings und der Muskelanatomie.
Summary
Discusses the scientific challenges of the topic of a sustainable resource use in the context of current developments in society and politic
Complements the two previous Factor X publications and presents about 20 concrete examples to increase resource efficiency and reach a “Factor X” (good and best practice)
Benefits researchers, policy makers and politicians who work in the field of resource efficiency and sustainable resource use
