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  • Factor X

    Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The editors of Factor X explore and analyze this trajectory, predicting scarcities of non-renewable materials such as metals, limited availability of ecological capacities and shortages arising from geographic concentrations of materials. They argue that what is needed is a radical change in the ways we use nature’s resources to produce goods and services and generate well-being. The goal of ... Read more

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  • Factor X

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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. ... Read more

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  • Factor X

    Challenges, Implementation Strategies and Examples for a Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity

    The Nexus Approaches

    Edited by Harry Lehmann ...
    Series series Factor X: Studies in Sustainable Natural Resource Management
    The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated resource requirements, describing and analysing the necessities for a more resource efficient world.The use of and competition for increasingly scarce ... Read more

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  • The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy

    Separating Aspirations from Reality

    Series series Factor X: Studies in Sustainable Natural Resource Management
    The fifth Factor X publication from the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy provides an overview of the limits to the circular economy, emphasising the relationship between integrated resource use and more systemic leadership-management approaches.On a European level, the book ties into the recent European Green Deal and aims to empower ... Read more

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