Eco-efficiency and Beyond

Towards the Sustainable Enterprise
Herausgeber: Seiler-Hausmann, Jan-Dirk; Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von; Liedtke, Christa

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Produktbeschreibung

Goes beyond explaining the past and present of eco-efficiency to look forward to a future where the comprehensive take-up of the concept by business, government and consumers could lead to innovation on a grand scale and the possibility of a giant leap towards overall sustainability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781874719601
• ISBN-10: 1874719608
• Artikelnr.: 35737935

Autorenporträt

Jan-Dirk Seiler-Hausmann was project leader in the Working Group 'Eco-efficiency and Sustainable Enterprises' at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Dr Christa Liedtke, born in 1964, studied biology and theology. Since 1993, she has been working as project leader at the Wuppertal Institute, Division for Material Flows and Structural Change, advancing in 1995 to team leader for product-related material flow analysis and sustainable management systems Dr Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker is a member of the German parliament, and, since 2002, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Jan-Dirk Seiler-Hausmann
Christa Liedtke and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker 1. Thinking about sustainable production and services in a globalised world Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Member of the German Parliament
former Chair of the Bundestag Select Committee on Globalisation 2. Promoting the life-cycle economy-time to act! Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel
United Nations Environment Programme
Division of Technology
Industry and Economics
France 3. The next sources of innovation Claude Fussler
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Switzerland 4. Sustainable politics Jan-Dirk Seiler-Hausmann
Wuppertal Institute
Germany 5. Germany's Sustainable Development Strategy Hans Martin Bury
Member of German Parliament; German Minister of State for Europe 6. The German Council for Sustainable Development Volker Hauff
Chair of the German Council for Sustainable Development 7. Think-communicate-act. Econsense Forum for Sustainable Development: A German business initiative Jürgen Zech
former member of the Board of Gerling and spokesperson for econsense
Germany 8. Launching the ISS Sustainable Development Raymond van Ermen
European Partners for the Environment
Belgium 9. Sustainable business development Michael Kuhndt
Wuppertal Institute
Germany 10. Deloitte Sustainability Reporting Scorecard Markus Lehni
Deloitte & Touche
Global Environment and Sustainability Services
Switzerland 11. Sustainability management? Don't bother! Practical steps for bringing sustainability into core management practice Peter Zollinger
SustainAbility
UK 12. Sustainable accounting initiatives in Japan: pilot projects of material flow cost accounting Katsuhiko Kokubu
Kobe University
Japan;Michiyasu Nakajima
Kansai University
Japan 13. The BASF eco-efficiency method as a sustainable decision-making tool Andreas Kicherer
BASF AG
Germany 14. Toward sustainable products and services Christa Liedtke
Wuppertal Institute
Germany 15. Climatex(R) Lifeguard(TM) upholstery fabrics: chronicle of a sustainable product redesign Albin Kälin
Rohner Textil AG
Switzerland
Alain Rivière and Ralf Ketelhut
EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
Germany
Michael Braungart
EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
Germany
and McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
LLC
USA 16. Eco-effective design of products and production systems: eight theses on methodological and institutional prerequisites Michael Braungart
EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
Germany and McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
LLC
USA
and Alain Riviere and Ralf Ketelhut
EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
Germany 17. Efforts in the electronics industry toward creating a recycling-based society Nobuhisa Itoh
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd
Japan 18. Ten years of sustainability at Henkel: innovative products as basis for long-term business success Rainer Rauberger and Michaela Raupach
Henkel
Corporate Sustainability Management/Reporting and Stakeholder Dialogue
Germany 19. Toward sustainable banks and insurance companies Thomas Orbach and Timo Busch
Wuppertal Institute
Germany 20. The challenge of sustainability for financial institutions Paul Clements-Hunt
Head of Unit
UNEP Finance Initiatives
Switzerland 21. Sustainability: the new paradigm in value-based corporate management Hanns Michael Hoelz
Global Head of Sustainable Development
Deutsche Bank 22. Can pension funds drive sustainable development? Inge Schumacher
UBS Global Asset Management
Socially Responsible Investments
Switzerland