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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)
This chapter addresses material leakage as a major problem of international open markets for used goods, in particular for used vehicles. It develops elements of an international metal covenant that should allow for a more sustainable management of global material flows in that area. The arguments in favour of such a proposal are as follows: Any regulation should actively seek for industry participation, taking advantage of business interest in supplying a sufficient amount of materials while lowering materials cost. It should also address public issues such as sustainability of recycling and waste. A first section analyses contracts as a tool to overcome knowledge problems that occur when many actors are involved. A second short section gives empirical evidence for material leakage in the case of used vehicles from Germany. A third section develops elements of an international metal covenant. A fourth section analyses potential impacts and discusses legal and institutional issues. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.
The transition to renewable energy systems : on the way to a comprehensive transition concept
(2013)
The greenhouse gas balance
(2013)
Conflict minerals
(2012)
MIPS / hot spot analysis
(2012)
How much is 100 billion US dollars? : Climate finance between adequacy and creative accounting
(2012)
Technical summary
(2012)
Managing solid waste is one of the biggest challenges in urban areas around the world. Technologically advanced economies generate vast amounts of organic waste materials, many of which are disposed to landfills. In the future, efficient use of carbon containing waste and all other waste materials has to be increased to reduce the need for virgin raw materials acquisition, including biomass, and reduce carbon being emitted to the atmosphere therefore mitigating climate change. At end-of-life, carbon-containing waste should not only be treated for energy recovery (e.g. via incineration) but technologies should be applied to recycle the carbon for use as material feedstocks. Thermochemical and biochemical conversion technologies offer the option to utilize organic waste for the production of chemical feedstock and subsequent polymers. The routes towards synthetic materials allow a more closed cycle of materials and can help to reduce dependence on either fossil or biobased raw materials. This chapter summarizes carbon-recycling routes available and investigates how in the long-term they could be applied to enhance waste management in both industrial countries as well as developing and emerging economies. We conclude with a case study looking at the system-wide global warming potential (GWP) and cumulative energy demand (CED) of producing high-density polyethylene (HDPE) from organic waste feedstock via gasification followed by Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS). Results of the analysis indicate that the use of organic waste feedstock is beneficial if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with landfill diversion are considered.
Economy-wide material flows
(2010)
Air emissions accounts
(2010)
Recent trends in the German CCS debate : new players, arguments and legal framework conditions
(2010)
Environment
(2019)
One world
(2019)
Increasing resource productivity : a win-win strategy to protect resources, climate and jobs?
(2009)
Nanologue
(2008)
Integrated systems analysis
(2007)
Assessing social aspects
(2006)
The concept of corporate resource efficiency accounting : a case study in the electronic industry
(2006)
COMPASS to sustainability
(2006)
Limits
(2005)
Poverty
(2005)
Renewables and off-grid rural electrification in developing countries : dimensions and trends
(2005)
Green accounting and energy
(2004)
Bridging the data gap
(2004)
Towards sustainable production and consumption : preparedness for product service system concept
(2004)
Material flows
(2003)
Material flow analysis
(2002)
An input-output approach to analyse the Total Material Requirement (TMR) of national economies
(1999)
Sustainable consumption
(1999)
Applying the material-based approach to Central and Eastern European Countries : the case of Poland
(1999)
Firms and dematerialisation
(1999)
Energy and material flows
(1998)
Local Agenda 21 in Germany
(1998)
Speed limits
(1998)
The implications of including sulfate aerosols on scenarios of admissible greenhouse gas emissions
(1998)
China and climate change
(1997)
Sustainable development
(1997)
Germany
(1997)