1st Edition
Factor Four Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use - A Report to the Club of Rome
By Ernst U.von Weizsacker
Copyright 1997
360 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Since the industrial revolution, progress has meant an increase in labour productivity. Factor Four describes a new form of progress, resource productivity, a form which meets the overriding imperative for the future (sustainability). It shows how at least four times as much wealth can be extracted from the resources we use. As the authors put it, the book is about doing more with less, but this... Read more
Introductions: More or Less - Exciting Prospects for Progress * Moral and Material Reasons * Efficiency Cure for the Wasting Disease * The Efficiency Cure * Seven Good Reasons for Resource Efficiency * What's so New About Efficiency? * The Purpose of this Book is Practical Changes * Part One: Fifty Examples of Quadrupling Resource Productivity - Chapter 1 Twenty Examples of Revolutionising Energy Productivity * Chapter 2: Twenty Examples of Revolutionising Material Productivity * Chapter 3: Ten Examples of Revolutionising Transport Productivity * Part Two: Making it Happen - Improving Profitability: Chapter 4: If Markets Create the Problem, Can They Also Provide Much of the Answer? * Chapter 5: Buying and Selling Efficiency * Chapter 6: Reward What We Want, Not the Opposite * Chapter 7: Ecological Tax Reform * Part 3: A Sense of Urgency - Chapter 8: The Challenge from Rio * Chapter 9: Avalanches of Matter: The Forgotten Agenda * Chapter 10: Unsatisfactory Part-Solutions * Chapter 11: We May Have Fifty Years Left to Close the Gap * Part Four: A Brighter Civilisation - Chapter 12: Green Economics * Chapter 13: Trade and the Environment * Chapter 14: Non-Material Wealth * References * Index
Biography
Weizsacker, Ernst U.von
