TY  - RPRT
U1  - Forschungsbericht
A1  - Lettenmeier, Michael
A1  - Rohn, Holger
A1  - Liedtke, Christa
A1  - Schmidt-Bleek, Friedrich
T1  - Resource productivity in 7 steps : how to develop eco-innovative products and services and improve their material footprint
T2  - Wuppertal Spezial
N2  - This compendium "Resource Productivity in 7 Steps" is intended to give practical advice to designers, engineers, distributors, banks, lawmakers and others how to increase the resource productivity of goods and services (dematerialisation).
The eco-innovative (re-)design of products begins with the definition/description of the benefit or service, which a product provides to its user. The use of MIPS (Material Input Per unit Service) helps to develop solutions that can provide this benefit with the least possible quantity of natural resources, from. It measures the material and energy input of a product throughout its life-cycle, "from cradle to cradle" (production of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, use, disposal). Thus, material and energy consumption can be minimised while satisfying the demand and decoupling of the economic activities from resource use. 
The brochure describes in seven steps how to gain more resource productivity. It provides several worksheets for the innovation process and material intensity factors for the calculation of the material footprint. A translation into traditional chinese is also available.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2010050774
SN  - 978-3-929944-80-8
SB  - 978-3-929944-80-8
VL  - 41
SP  - 56
S1  - 56
PB  - Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
CY  - Wuppertal
PB  - Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
CY  - Wuppertal
ER  -