Overview
- Clearly relating macro level sustainability requirements to micro level eco-efficiency
- Bringing precision to the Factor X discussion
- Differentiating between win-win as dynamic goal and the optimality of choices
- Surveying extremely diverse applications, from forestry investments in China, to variable heat reflecting windows in buildings
Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE, volume 22)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An introduction to quantified eco-efficiency analysis
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General Methods
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Cases in Agriculture
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Cases in Industry
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Cases in Products and Consumption
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About this book
A central asset of eco-efficiency analysis is that it does not depend on a specific evaluation of environmental impacts against economic effects, avoiding the often disputed results of neo-classical evaluation methods. For integrating the different environmental scores several evaluation methods may be used including those based on willingness-to-pay, panel procedures, and public statements on policy goals.
A substantial Japanese paper on Maximum Abatement Cost method and a paper on revealed public preferences in The Netherlands comprise the first section on methods. Next, there are four sections on domains of application of eco-efficiency analysis. In the Agriculture section, a case on conservation agriculture in China is worked out, using input-output analysis. In the Industry section, cases range from supply chain management to waste water management and methods to speed up innovation. In the Products & Consumption section, cases refer to overall household performance, specific energy products and methods for upgradeable product design. Finally, in the Recycling section, cases relate to increasing the supply of secondary materials and to increasing secondary materials use.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gjalt Huppes is head of the Industrial Ecology Department and associate professor of environmental system sciences at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Masanobu Ishikawa is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kobe University in Kobe, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantified Eco-Efficiency
Book Subtitle: An Introduction with Applications
Editors: Gjalt Huppes, Masanobu Ishikawa
Series Title: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5399-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5398-6Published: 09 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7360-0Published: 20 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5399-3Published: 03 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1389-6970
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 332
Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Management, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis