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Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science Book 29) by Michael Angrick, Andreas Burger, Harry Lehmann, Mandy Hinzmann, Nick Evans, Terri Kafyeke, Stephen Bell, Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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As Currently Projected, Global Population Growth Will Place Increasing Pressures On The Environment And On Earth’s Resources. Growth Will Be Concentrated In Developing Countries, Leading To Leaps In Demand For Goods And Services, And A Paradox: Although There Are Initiatives to Decouple Resource Use And Economic Growth In Mature Economies, Their Effects Could Be More Than Offset By Rapid Economic Growth In Developing Countries Like China And India. Others Will Follow, Claiming Their Equal Right To Material Well- Being. This Will Even More Increase The Challenge Facing The Industrialized Countries To Reduce Their Resource Use. The Editors Of Factor X Explore And Analyze This Trajectory, Predicting Scarcities Of Non-renewable Materials Such As Metals, Limited Availability Of Ecological Capacities And Shortages Arising From Geographic Concentrations Of Materials.^ They Argue That What Is Needed Is A Radical Change In The Ways We Use Nature’s Resources To Produce Goods And Services And Generate Well-being. The Goal Of Saving Our Ecosystem Demands A Prompt And Decisive Reduction Of Man-induced Material Flows. Before 2050, They Assert, We Must Achieve A Significant Decrease In Consum

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Author

Michael Angrick, Andreas Burger, Harry Lehmann, Mandy Hinzmann, Nick Evans, Terri Kafyeke, Stephen Bell, Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers

Publisher

Michael Angrick; Springer

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9789400757066

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Management