Editors:
- Discusses the scientific challenges of the topic of a sustainable resource use in the context of current developments in society and politic
- Complements the two previous Factor X publications and presents about 20 concrete examples to increase resource efficiency and reach a “Factor X” (good and best practice)
- Benefits researchers, policy makers and politicians who work in the field of resource efficiency and sustainable resource use
Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE, volume 32)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Challenges
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Front Matter
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Implementation Strategies
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world. It discusses solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources, addressing decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry, academia, civil society, and the media. The book presents strategies, concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainable resource use in practice.
Following on from two previous titles published on Factor X by the Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), entitled “Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use” (2013) and “Factor X: Re-source – Designing the Recycling Society” (2014), this book further investigates how savings in natural resources and resource efficiency improvements could be achieved, focusing on good practice examples that cover different resource categories, pursue different efficiency strategies and come from different sectors, e.g. innovative products or services, technology, man
agement approaches, systemic approaches, etc.The background against which this work is done has a highly comprehensive span, from the first Declaration of the Factor X Club in the nineties, to the European Commission’s Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe that was published in September 2011, through to the German Federal government’s German Resource Efficiency Programme (ProgRess I and II) in 2012 and 2016, the G7 Alliance for Resource Efficiency, and most recently the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Editors and Affiliations
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Factor X/10 Club, German Environment Agency, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Harry Lehmann
About the editor
Harry Lehmann, General Director, Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
A physicist, Dr. Harry Lehmann has been General Director of Division I “Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies” of the German Federal Environment Agency since 2004. He was an early member, and is now the President, of the Factor 10 Club for resource productivity and sustainable use of natural resources. He is one of the founders of Eurosolar, the European Association for Renewable Energy. In 2011 he became Executive Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Council. He has published several books. Since 1985, Harry Lehmann has lectured at various universities, most recently at the Leuphana University of Luneburg.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Factor X
Book Subtitle: Challenges, Implementation Strategies and Examples for a Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
Editors: Harry Lehmann
Series Title: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50079-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50078-2Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84312-4Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50079-9Published: 28 September 2017
Series ISSN: 1389-6970
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 452
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Economic Policy, Environmental Economics, Economic Growth