Ernst U.von Weizsacker

Factor Four

Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use - A Report to the Club of Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the industrial revolution, progress has meant an increase in labour productivity. This title describes a different form of progress, resource productivity, a form which meets the overriding imperative for the future (sustainability). It shows how at least four times as much wealth can be extracted from the resources we use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Earthscan / GB Gardners Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: Y122531
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 136mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781853834066
• ISBN-10: 1853834068
• Artikelnr.: 21218217

Autorenporträt

Weizsacker, Ernst U.von

Inhaltsangabe

Introductions: More or Less - Exciting Prospects for Progress * Moral and Material Reasons * Efficiency Cure for the Wasting Disease * The Efficiency Cure * Seven Good Reasons for Resource Efficiency * What's so New About Efficiency? * The Purpose of this Book is Practical Changes * Part One: Fifty Examples of Quadrupling Resource Productivity - Chapter 1 Twenty Examples of Revolutionising Energy Productivity * Chapter 2: Twenty Examples of Revolutionising Material Productivity * Chapter 3: Ten Examples of Revolutionising Transport Productivity * Part Two: Making it Happen - Improving Profitability: Chapter 4: If Markets Create the Problem, Can They Also Provide Much of the Answer? * Chapter 5: Buying and Selling Efficiency * Chapter 6: Reward What We Want, Not the Opposite * Chapter 7: Ecological Tax Reform * Part 3: A Sense of Urgency - Chapter 8: The Challenge from Rio * Chapter 9: Avalanches of Matter: The Forgotten Agenda * Chapter 10: Unsatisfactory Part-Solutions * Chapter 11: We May Have Fifty Years Left to Close the Gap * Part Four: A Brighter Civilisation - Chapter 12: Green Economics * Chapter 13: Trade and the Environment * Chapter 14: Non-Material Wealth * References * Index