Cargando…

Quantified Eco-Efficiency An Introduction with Applications /

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 threate...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Huppes, Gjalt (Editor ), Ishikawa, Masanobu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science ; 22
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An introduction to quantified eco-efficiency analysis
  • An introduction to quantified eco-efficiency analysis
  • General Methods
  • Maximum abatement costs for calculating cost-effectiveness of green activities with multiple environmental effects
  • From thermodynamic efficiency to eco-efficiency
  • The price of toxicity. Methodology for the assessment of shadow prices for human toxicity, ecotoxicity and abiotic depletion
  • Cases in Agriculture
  • Conservation reconsidered: a modified input-output analysis of the economic impact of China's land conservation policy
  • Cases in Industry
  • Eco-efficiency in redesigned extended supply chains; furniture as an example
  • Practical experiences with reducing industrial use of water and chemicals in the galvanising industry
  • Cost-efficient solutions can speed up ecological (and social) development - A proposal
  • Cases in Products and Consumption
  • Environmental performance of households
  • Eco-efficiency analysis of an electrochromic smart window prototype
  • Upgrade planning for upgradeable product design
  • Cases in Recycling
  • A strategic policy model for promoting secondary materials use
  • Eco-efficiency analysis of the plastic recovery systems in Hyogo eco-town project.