Factor X
Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2013
X, 289 pages
978-94-007-5712-7 (ISBN)
Description
Factor X: Re-source-Designing the Recycling Society
explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry's Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer Netherland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
X, 289 p. 54 illus., 37 illus. in color.
File size
5,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-94-007-5712-7 (9789400757127)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-5712-7
Schweitzer Classification
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Michael Angrick | Andreas Burger | Harry Lehmann
Factor X
Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society
Book
02/2015
Springer
€106.99
Shipment within 15-20 days
Michael Angrick | Andreas Burger | Harry Lehmann
Factor X
Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society
Book
02/2013
Springer
€106.99
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Preface.- I. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A Global Challenge.- 1. Global Material Flows and Their Environmental Impacts.- 2. Improving Resource Efficiency - Key Question for Ecology and Economy.- 3. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development.- 4. Economic Growth and Resource Use.- 5. Resource Protection Policy from an Ngo Perspective.- 6. Developing a Legal Framework for Resource Conservation.- Ii. Securing a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials.- 7. An International Metal Covenant - a Step Towards Sustainable Global Material Flows? .- 8. The Austrian Raw Materials Plan.- Iii. Sustainable Production and Consumption.- 9. Material Efficiency in the Production of Goods.- Iv. Further Development of a Sound Waste Management.- 10. The Contribution of Recycling To Sustainability/ Strategies for Recycling and Resource Conservation.- 11. Perspectives for A Resource Efficient Waste Management.- V. Taking Into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples.- 12. Construction and Housing.-12.1. Sustainment of the Existing Property.- 12.2. High Quality Recycling of Demolition Wastes.- 13. Rare Metals.- 13.1. The Importance of Rare/Critical Metals for Emerging (Green) Technologies (Titel Wird Noch Von Reller Verändert, Richtung) .- 13.2. Precious and Special Metal Recycling: Economical and Technical Aspects.- 13.3. Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap.- 14. The Limited Resources of Phosphorus and How to Close the Phosphorus Cycle.- Vi. Concluding Chapter.- 15. About The Need of a Resource Efficiency Programme.- Index.
