The Earth [[electronic resource] ] : natural resources and human intervention / / Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek ; translated by Sandra Lustig ; Klaus Wiegandt, general editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461813303321
• Autore: Schmidt-Bleek F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Haus Pub., 2009
• ISBN: 1-281-86284-3; 9786613792167; 1-906598-59-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: The sustainability project
• Altri autori (Persone): WiegandtKlaus; LustigSandra
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetti: Conservation of natural resources; Conservation of natural resources - Citizen participation; Conservation of natural resources - Economic aspects; Sustainable living; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Originally published as ... Nutzen wir die Erde rightig? : die Leistungen der Natur und die Arbeit des Menschen by Frankfurt Schmidt-Bleek. Ed. by Klaus Wiegandt"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-219).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface: how environmental protection mutated into an eco-strategy; Acknowledgments; 1 The Earth In Motion; How we manage natural resources; Dematerialization of the economy; Moving resources; Changing the way we manage the economy; The necessity of dematerialization; The ecological rucksack and an ecological metric; Energy in the ecological rucksack; How we manage resources; From old to new environmental policy; 2 The True Price Of Things; Focus on function; Two new concepts; Ecological rucksacks; The ecological price, or the true price of things; Material input factors - MIFFive different rucksacks; Factor 10; In a nutshell; 3 The Ecological Metric; Costs per service; The ecological price of utility; MIPS is evidently the ecological equivalent of COPS; The service unit S; An example: what is dematerialized steel?; Resource ; productivity: more utility for less environment; Resource productivity of production; Resource productivity of services; Ecological prices and labels; Ecological prices; Do prices tell the ecological truth?; 4 The Economy's Metabolism; An Excursus: The Tower Of Babel; Inseparable: economic activity and the ecosphere; Material flow accountsThe resource strategy; Material flows in Germany; Food metabolism in Germany; Material flows in the European Union; The global economy's material flows; The population problem and resource consumption; Boomerang effects; Sustainable world trade?; 5 Consequences For The Earth; The complexity of the economy and the ecosphere; The devastation caused by hurricanes; Early warnings; The Kyoto Protocol - the path to the future?; Sustainable solutions?; 6 Services And Their Utility; Practical services; Luxury and resources; Services performed by machines; Nature's services; The utility of lifeChanging values?; Focusing on utility helps to create a future with a future; Seeking ecological utility; Choosing the best; Making difficult choices; The new Kondratiev wave; Who are the movers and shakers?; Making MIPS smaller: dematerializing existing products; Designing the invisible: innovations for tomorrow; Multifunctional equipment; Designing sustainable utility; 7 The Earth In Our Hands; The productivity of labor and resources; Unemployment with no prospects?; Misdirected financial burdens?; Energy and resource efficiency; Unintelligent taxation; Full-cost pricing; The reality of wasting resourcesInnovation on the wrong track?; The Aachen scenario; We still lack information; Carnoules Potentials; Investing in tomorrow; Europe's historic opportunity; Epilogue; Glossary; Tables; References
• Sommario/riassunto: We must dematerialization the global economy by 10 percent to stem the acceleration of climate change.