Overview
- Traces history and progress of efforts to meet the Sustainability Strategy of 2002 goal of doubling raw material productivity by 2020, compared to 1994
- Reviews current initiatives and activities, identifies areas for action and describes measures to increase resource efficiency
- Benefits researchers in recycling and raw materials management, resource administrators and managers, policy makers and politicians
Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A Global Challenge
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Securing a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials
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Sustainable Production and Consumption
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Further Development of a Sound Waste Management
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Taking Into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Factor X
Book Subtitle: Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society
Editors: Michael Angrick, Andreas Burger, Harry Lehmann
Series Title: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5712-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5711-0Published: 02 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8225-8Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5712-7Published: 01 February 2013
Series ISSN: 1389-6970
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 289
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environment, general, Industrial and Production Engineering