05191nam 2200757 a 450 991046181330332120200520144314.01-281-86284-397866137921671-906598-59-2(CKB)2670000000139681(EBL)829733(OCoLC)769344228(SSID)ssj0000570565(PQKBManifestationID)11931368(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570565(PQKBWorkID)10593297(PQKB)10868083(MiAaPQ)EBC3038298(MiAaPQ)EBC829733(Au-PeEL)EBL3038298(CaPaEBR)ebr10522102(OCoLC)778432399(Au-PeEL)EBL829733(CaONFJC)MIL379216(EXLCZ)99267000000013968120090526d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Earth[electronic resource] natural resources and human intervention /Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek ; translated by Sandra Lustig ; Klaus Wiegandt, general editorLondon Haus Pub.20091 online resource (247 p.)The sustainability project"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.1-906598-09-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-219).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 thingsMaterial 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 ecosphereMaterial 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 servicesThe 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 pricingThe 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; ReferencesWe must dematerialization the global economy by 10 percent to stem the acceleration of climate change.Sustainability project (London, England)Conservation of natural resourcesConservation of natural resourcesCitizen participationConservation of natural resourcesEconomic aspectsSustainable livingElectronic books.Conservation of natural resources.Conservation of natural resourcesCitizen participation.Conservation of natural resourcesEconomic aspects.Sustainable living.333.72Schmidt-Bleek F1031895Wiegandt Klaus991902Lustig Sandra1031896MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461813303321The Earth2449442UNINA