Overview
- Powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments
- The method assesses all important impacts
- Publication supports environmental investment decisions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: AutoUni – Schriftenreihe (AUS, volume 105)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This report transfers the Ecological Scarcity Method (ESM) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and surveys the current impacts and the targets published by environmental authorities, specifically the European Environment Agency. ESM assesses environmental impacts of manufacturing sites and production processes. Developed in 1990 in Switzerland, ESM has already gained regulatory status in proving entitlements for tax exemptions. The method assesses all important impacts in air, water, energy consumption, waste generation and freshwater consumption and also supports environmental investment decisions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Stephan Ahbe is initiator and author of Swiss Ecological Scarcity Method published in 1990 and today develops Environmental Management Systems at SYRCON in Darmstadt, Germany.
Dr. Simon Weihofen is Environmental and Energy Manager in Group Management at E.ON SE in Essen, Germany.
Dr. Steffen Wellge is an Environmental and Energy Management Specialist at the Volkswagen Group Research, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ecological Scarcity Method for the European Union
Book Subtitle: A Volkswagen Research Initiative: Environmental Assessments
Authors: Stephan Ahbe, Simon Weihofen, Steffen Wellge
Series Title: AutoUni – Schriftenreihe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19506-9
Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-19505-2Published: 02 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-19506-9Published: 24 October 2017
Series ISSN: 1867-3635
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1154
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 93
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Industrial Pollution Prevention