Quantified Eco-Efficiency An Introduction with Applications
Eco-efficiency has long been a concept: the intention of reducing environmental impact while increasing environmental value. Its origins are with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. However, in a globalized world with sustained economic growth environmental degradation is threate...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
| Series: | Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- An introduction to quantified eco-efficiency analysis
- An introduction to quantified eco-efficiency analysis
- General Methods
- Maximum abatement costs for calculating cost-effectiveness of green activities with multiple environmental effects
- From thermodynamic efficiency to eco-efficiency
- The price of toxicity. Methodology for the assessment of shadow prices for human toxicity, ecotoxicity and abiotic depletion
- Cases in Agriculture
- Conservation reconsidered: a modified input-output analysis of the economic impact of China’s land conservation policy
- Cases in Industry
- Eco-efficiency in redesigned extended supply chains; furniture as an example
- Practical experiences with reducing industrial use of water and chemicals in the galvanising industry
- Cost-efficient solutions can speed up ecological (and social) development – A proposal
- Cases in Products and Consumption
- Environmental performance of households
- Eco-efficiency analysis of an electrochromic smart window prototype
- Upgrade planning for upgradeable product design
- Cases in Recycling
- A strategic policy model for promoting secondary materials use
- Eco-efficiency analysis of the plastic recovery systems in Hyogo eco-town project