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Sustainable Resource Management - Global Trends, Visions and Policies (Hardcover, New)
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Sustainable Resource Management - Global Trends, Visions and Policies (Hardcover, New)
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Sustainable Resource Management is the result of years of
exhaustive research by Germany's Wuppertal Institute. Looking at
material flows, industrial and societal metabolism and their
implications for the economy, this important new book provides
radical perspectives on how the global economy should use natural
resources in intelligent ways that maximise well-being without
destroying life-supporting ecosystems. It presents a vision of the
future and the fundamental elements necessary for the sustainable
management of the Earth's resources. It argues that the need to
manage the use of our natural resources at a sustainable level can
be shaped into a great opportunity for innovation and for new
institutions to govern change.Sustainable Resource Management first
provides an overview of the methods it has used to analyse the
physical basis of our economies, from the product and firm level
through to sectors and whole countries, considering material flows
and life-cycle-wide impacts on the environment. Indicators are
described that reflect the volume, structure and physical growth of
the socio-industrial metabolism, resource productivity and the
share of domestic and foreign resource use. By accounting for the
global land use of different countries and regions, the book aims
to better assess the global implications of domestic activities.
For example, linkages are made between the consumption of food and
non-food to land use change, such as the expansion of cropland at
the expense of natural ecosystems.Sustainable Resource Management
presents a number of key findings. Comparing the resource use of
the EU with the USA, Japan and China, it determines why there is a
difference. It provides evidence about the decoupling of resource
use from economic growth, at the expense of an increased reliance
on foreign supply. There are two closely analysed case studies, on
platinum group metals (PGM) and biofuels, which provide insights
into the key drivers of resource use and related problem shifting.
Another key finding is that only a limited number of sectors, both
on the production and consumption side, are actually associated
with major resource requirements and atmospheric emissions - so
synergies between resource conservation and climate protection can
be found. Evidence is also given of a possible link between a low
level of resource productivity and a high risk of
unemployment.Sustainable Resource Management also looks into the
future and provides visions of sustainable resource use, including
the necessary conditions for a sustainable metabolism in the EU.
Four example-rich visions are laid out approaching the future from
different angles: the resource-efficient and recycling-based
industry, the steady-stocks society, the solarised technosphere,
and the balanced bio-economy. Each examines key conditions for a
low-risk and high-opportunity future, while accounting for likely
trade-offs between dematerialisation and rematerialisation, between
renewable energy sources and non-renewable materials, between
construction and deconstruction of buildings and infrastructures,
and between domestic production and the import of biomass
products.Finally, Sustainable Resource Management provides a
blueprint for how a more sustainable future may be achieved. It
analyses the legitimacy of public policies for sustainable resource
management, looks at market deficits and barriers, and considers
the global nature of the challenge. Crucially, it lays down the key
elements of a strategy roadmap: First, better information,
dissemination and knowledge generation. Second, innovative market
policies to encourage new business models. Third, industry-specific
policies - particularly where current resource use patterns are
significant and a huge demand for adaptation and system innovation
exist, such as in automotive or metal production. Last but not
least, an international convention on sustainable resource
management is proposed.This significant new book will be essential
reading for researchers, EU and national governmental officials;
and business and NGOs with an interest in concepts, strategies and
instruments to improve resource productivity and sustainable
resource management from the regional and sectoral levels to the
international level.
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