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Environmental justice
(2023)
Sufficiency
(2023)
Sustainable urban mobility : interventions, key measures and solutions, actors, and opportunities
(2023)
Effectiveness and efficiency of food-waste prevention policies, circular economy, and food industry
(2020)
Energy and climate change
(2018)
A global collaborative accounting network to calculate the resource use of products and services
(2015)
Design for sustainability
(2018)
Participatory scenario processes : a tool for mutually shaping the future and social learning
(2017)
Sustainable energy
(2017)
Actor and network analysis
(2017)
The future of automobility
(2017)
Summary for policymakers
(2012)
Limited knowledge and the precautionary principle : on the feasibility of environmental politics
(1997)
Technical summary
(2015)
Sustainable energy systems
(2016)
Decoupling resource consumption and economic growth : insights into an unsolved global challenge
(2015)
Industry
(2014)
The role of gender concerns in the planning of small-scale energy projects in developing countries
(2015)
Poverty
(2014)
Limits
(2014)
Transport
(2014)
Sustainable strategies
(2014)
Global warming, the overall extraction of minerals and the expansion of cultivated land for biomass harvest are growing globally. These "Big Three" represent key environmental pressures which may lead to a continuous degradation of the living environment, if not controlled at levels with acceptable low risk. The situation is complex, because countries and regions consume products which require resources such as minerals and land in various parts of the world. Nevertheless, it is possible to measure the global resource use which is associated with the domestic consumption. In order to inform policies at the national and supranational level whether it may be necessary to adjust the incentive framework for industry and households, reference data are needed to compare the status quo of their countries with what may be deemed acceptable at a global level. This chapter outlines a rationale for the derivation of possible long-term targets for total material consumption of abiotic materials (TMCabiot) and global land use for crops (GLUcropland). The indicated targets are expressed in tentative per capita values which may serve as a first orientation and basis for further debate and research.
Designguide background
(2013)