Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
By E. V. Weizsäcker, K. Hargroves, Michael. Smith, C. Desha, P. Stasinopoulos. 2009
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Subfields: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development (2017, background): “Scholars also identify ample potential for improving material efficiency in heavy industry, new materials, and new processes that may all underpin decoupling (122).”
- Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand? (2020, background): “Energy conservation, energy efficiency and energy sufficiency are the most important strategies to achieve absolute or even absolute sufficient decoupling (Bertoldi, 2020, 2017; von Weizsäcker et al., 2009).”
- Liveable and Sustainable? Socio-Technical Challenges for Twenty-First-Century Cities (2012, background): “…are increasingly aware of the need to be ahead of or at least in touch with the next wave of innovation (Cutler, 2008; Hargroves and Smith, 2005; von Weizsäcker et al., 2009) and are seeking to identify what will give 90 Jou rn al of U rban T ech n olog y rise to the new areas of innovation.”
- Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress (2013, background): “This degree of technical improvement appears to be feasible (von Weizsacker et al., 2009).”
- Contributing to local policy making on GHG emission reduction through inventorying and attribution: A case study of Shenyang, China (2011, background): “Even comparing with the current efficiency level in most developed countries, a possible factor-five improvement in resource productivity can be realized (Weizsacker et al., 2009).”
- Human Capital and Sustainability (2011, background): “by 2020 and that investment in energy productivity across all major sectors generates excellent returns on investment [35].”
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