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Factor X: Re-source—Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry’s Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished.

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Author:   Michael Angrick ,  Andreas Burger ,  Harry Lehmann
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2013 ed.
Volume:   30
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.569kg
ISBN:  

9789401782258

ISBN 10:   9401782253
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   08 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface.- I. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A Global Challenge.- 1. Global Material Flows and Their Environmental Impacts.- 2. Improving Resource Efficiency – Key Question for Ecology and Economy.- 3. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development.- 4. Economic Growth and Resource Use.- 5. Resource Protection Policy from an Ngo Perspective.- 6. Developing a Legal Framework for Resource Conservation.- Ii. Securing a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials.- 7. An International Metal Covenant – a Step Towards Sustainable Global Material Flows? .- 8. The Austrian Raw Materials Plan.- Iii. Sustainable Production and Consumption.- 9. Material Efficiency in the Production of Goods.- Iv. Further Development of a Sound Waste Management.- 10. The Contribution of Recycling To Sustainability/ Strategies for Recycling and Resource Conservation.- 11. Perspectives for A Resource Efficient Waste Management.- V. Taking Into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples.- 12. Construction and Housing.-12.1. Sustainment of the Existing Property.- 12.2. High Quality Recycling of Demolition Wastes.- 13. Rare Metals.- 13.1. The Importance of Rare/Critical Metals for Emerging (Green) Technologies (Titel Wird Noch Von Reller Verändert, Richtung) .- 13.2. Precious and Special Metal Recycling: Economical and Technical Aspects.- 13.3. Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap.- 14. The Limited Resources of Phosphorus and How to Close the Phosphorus Cycle.- Vi. Concluding Chapter.- 15. About The Need of a Resource Efficiency Programme.- Index.

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