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Quantified Eco-Efficiency Volume 22 || by Gjalt Huppes, Masanobu Ishikawa (auth.), Gjalt Huppes, Masanobu Ishikawa (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 threatening. Macro level requirements on sustainability should be reflected in the eco-efficiency of choices at a micro level, like on technologies, supply chains and product systems. Eco-efficiency analysis has come to fruition as a fully quantified method for analysis, linking to specific domains of economic modelling, specific environmental models, and several methods for integrating these two domains into eco-efficiency scores. This eco-efficiency analysis can guide choices in policy, business, and consumptions activities, all from a single common background. A central asset of eco-efficiency analysis is that it does not depend on a specific evaluation of environmental impacts against economic effects, avoiding the often disputed results of neo-classical evaluation methods. For integrating the different environmental scores several evaluation methods may be used including those based on wil

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Author

Gjalt Huppes, Masanobu Ishikawa (auth.), Gjalt Huppes, Masanobu Ishikawa (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402053986

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Technology, Science