International Economics Of Resource Efficiency

Author : Raimund Bleischwitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790826014
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Economics of Resource Efficiency written by Raimund Bleischwitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. Focussing on economics, sustainability, technology and policy, the book highlights system innovation, leapfrogging strategies of emerging economies, possible rebound effects and international market development. It puts natural resources centre stage and will make an important contribution to achieving the goal of a 21st century Green Economy.

Author : Florian Flachenecker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319788671
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investing in Resource Efficiency written by Florian Flachenecker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of resource efficiency in reconciling environmental and economic considerations. It also discusses the critical role of resource efficiency investments in mitigating climate change and enabling sustainable development. Featuring expert insights from academia, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, this book provides a policy oriented guide, reference, and toolbox for unlocking the potential of resource efficiency. To this end, it identifies practical measures for overcoming barriers and creating smart incentives for leveraging resource efficiency investments. Overall, this book brings together evidence to develop innovative ideas and strategies for improving the efficient use of resources and advancing clean and sustainable development. "This book is an important and timely contribution", Angel Gurria, Secretary General, OECD

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309049377
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, the first wave of environmental regulation targeted specific sources of pollutants. In the 1990s, concern is focused not on the ends of pipes or the tops of smokestacks but on sweeping regional and global issues. This landmark volume explores the new industrial ecology, an emerging framework for making environmental factors an integral part of economic and business decision making. Experts on this new frontier explore concepts and applications, including: Bringing international law up to par with many national laws to encourage industrial ecology principles. Integrating environmental costs into accounting systems. Understanding design for environment, industrial "metabolism," and sustainable development and how these concepts will affect the behavior of industrial and service firms. The volume looks at negative and positive aspects of technology and addresses treatment of waste as a raw material. This volume will be important to domestic and international policymakers, leaders in business and industry, environmental specialists, and engineers and designers.

Author : John M. Polimeni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317705254
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Resource Efficiency written by John M. Polimeni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Jevons Paradox', which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil fuels, but other resource use scenarios. For example, doubling the efficiency of food production per hectare over the last 50 years (due to the Green Revolution) did not solve the problem of hunger. The increase in efficiency increased production and worsened hunger because of the resulting increase in population. The implications of this in today's world are substantial. Many scientists and policymakers argue that future technological innovations will reduce consumption of resources; the Jevons Paradox explains why this may be a false hope. This is the first book to provide a historical overview of the Jevons Paradox, provide evidence for its existence and apply it to complex systems. Written and edited by world experts in the fields of economics, ecological economics, technology and the environment, it explains the myth of efficiency and explores its implications for resource usage (particularly oil). It is a must-read for policymakers, natural resource managers, academics and students concerned with the effects of efficiency on resource use.

Author : James West
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resource Efficiency written by James West and published by UN. This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides more detailed data and analysis, specific to China, over the report provided in 2011 on Asia and the Pacific (UNEP 2011). It can be thought of as a single country focus version of that report, and so the structure is broadly similar. For most sections the base data used is simply the China specific data assembled for the production of (UNEP 2011), and so covers the same time period of 1970 to 2005. The exception is the material flows data, which has had a major update and revision performed. The time series for material flows data has been extended to cover 1970 to 2008.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264060758
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guidance Manual for the Control of Transboundary Movements of Recoverable Wastes written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guidance Manual includes detailed explanations on how to implement the OECD Decision on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Recoverable Wastes.

Author : Paul Ekins
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resource Efficiency written by Paul Ekins and published by UN. This book was released on 2016 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite enormous progress in the past decades towards improving human prosperity and well-being, this has come at the lasting cost of degradation of the natural environment and depletion of natural resources. Meeting the needs of a growing and increasingly affluent population, will require natural resource extraction to increase from 85 to 186 billion tons by 2050. This can cause irreversible environmental damage and endanger the capacity of Earth to continue to provide resources which are essential for human survival and development. Analysis in the report shows that policies and initiatives to improve resource efficiency and tackle climate change can reduce global resource extraction by up to 28 per cent while also boosting the value of world economic activity by 1 per cent in 2050, against the baseline. Such policy actions can also cut global greenhouse gas emissions by around 60 per cent in 2050 relative to 2015 levels. This report has been produced by the UNEP's International Resource Panel in response to a request by leaders of the G7 nations in the context of efforts to promote resource efficiency as a core element of sustainable development. The report conducts a rigorous survey to assess and articulate the prospects and solutions for resource efficiency. It considers how more efficient use of resources can contribute to economic growth, employment and development, at the same time as reducing the world's use of materials, energy, biomass and water, and the resulting environmental impacts. The report documents many examples of best practices for increasing the resource efficiency of different sectors from countries around the world. The challenge for policy-makers is to learn from and scale up these good practices, and to conceive and implement a set of transformative policies that will enable countries to reap the associated social, environmental and economic benefits.

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Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resource Efficiency, Circular Economy and Sustainability Dynamics in China and OECD Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Dimitratos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230278027
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources, Efficiency and Globalization written by P. Dimitratos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International business for the modern firm has to compromise the need to use limited resources and achieve efficiency in the global marketplace. This book examines these issues from the viewpoint of the internationalized SME, the big multinational and the local subsidiary drawing on research conducted in different countries.

Author : Sigrun Kabisch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319593242
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Transformations written by Sigrun Kabisch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single cases and different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.