1st Edition

Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity The Nexus Approaches

Edited By Harry Lehmann Copyright 2021
386 Pages 56 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

386 Pages 56 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated resource requirements, describing and analysing the necessities for a more resource efficient world. The use of and competition for increasingly scarce... Read more

Part 1. Setting the Scene

1. RESCUE the Anthropocene – Urgent Actions for the Great Transformation

Harry Lehmann

2. The world at the ultimate crossroads: climate change, environmental impacts, population, natural resources sufficiency in the long perspective with integrated models

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Ullrich Lorenz and Anna Hulda Olafsdottir

3. Reporting resource use in Germany

Stephan Lutter, Stefan Giljum, Christopher Manstein and Gerda Palmetshofer

4. The Rise of E-Mobility as a Trade-off between social and ecological benefits and Distributional Injustice: How the socio-technical regime and externalisation prevent a profound transformation of the mobility sector

Fabian Zimmer and Doerte Themann

5. The quest for the holy grail: Can smart cities lead us to sustainability?

Ira Shefer

6. Sustainable development as the ultimate target of adopting a nexus approach to resources management

Serena Caucci, Lulu Zhang, Karla Locher-Krause and Stephan Hülsmann

7. The water-energy nexus of Brazil’s hydropower

Theodoros Semertzidis, Raimund Bleischwitz and Catalina Spataru

8. Education, sustainable development, and resource management

Katrin Kohl and Charles A. Hopkins

Part 2. Core Aspects of an Integrated Resource Policy

9. Systemic analysis of the nexus of greenhouse gas emissions and material use in the energy sector

Ullrich Lorenz

10. Wrong Memes - Organic Farming and Battery Electric Vehicles

Kai Neumann

11. What’s going on abroad? Monitoring international resource policies

Monika Dittrich, Andreas Auberger, Christopher Manstein, Detlef Schreiber and Elisabeth Dürr

12. Pathways to a Resource-Efficient and Greenhouse-Gas Neutral Germany

Jens Günther, Philip Nuss, Katja Purr, Monika Dittrich and Harry Lehmann

13. Resource Use in a Post-fossil Green Germany

Monika Dittrich, Karl Schoer, Jens Günther, Philip Nuss and Harry Lehmann

14. Vertical integration in a multi-level governance system using the example of the German Resource Efficiency Programme (ProgRess)

Maic Verbücheln and Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak

15. A strategy to increase the resource efficiency of renewable energy technologies

Hans-Martin Henning, Shivenes Shammugam, Estelle Gervais and Thomas Schlegl

16. Governing Critical Infrastructure in digital futures

Louis Klein

17. The energy transition in Deventer - A Hanseatic approach

Ir. Almar (A.M.) Otten and R.C (Ron) Sint Nicolaas RA

Part 3. Case Studies of Existing Solutions

18. Natural Resources as Common Goods

Alexa K. Lutzenberger, Franziska Lichter and Sarah Holzgreve

19. Sustainable Resource Output: Towards an Approach to a Multidimensional Environmental Assessment of Biomass Production

Böttcher, H.; Hennenberg, K., Wiegmann, K., Scheffler, M., Hansen, A.

20. More Resource efficiency in production and products - Digitalisation supports industry and trades

Peter Jahns

21. 8 Tons of Lifestyle – Monitoring a Sustainable Material Footprint for Households in Germany and the World

Jens Teubler, Sebastian Schuster and Christa Liedtke

22. C like Clever and Cycle – Without a smart and systematic conception of the metal industry, product labelling and an indicator system, nothing will happen

Greiff, K.; Fiesinger, F.; Liedtke, C.; Faulstich, M.

23. The Nexus of Procurement and Sustainability - Reflection of the Limits and Opportunities of Product Labels, Using the Example of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

Uwe Sayer and Nina Griesshammer

24. The role of biomass use in a defossilised and resource-efficient world

Horst Fehrenbach and Nils Rettenmaier

Part 4. Pioneering Innovations

25. Big, environmentally friendly events

Sparing resources, respecting nature, setting limits: An attempt by the German Protestant Festival (Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag) at organising a big event on a sustainable footing

Oliver Foltin, Christof Hertel and Jobst Kraus

26. The Kwawu resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems: A complex adaptive systems approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Eben Anuwa-Amarh and Christoph Hinske

Contributors: Nana Kwabena Bamfo-Debrah, David Sefa, Sheriff Amarh and Stephen Nassam

27. Exploring the possibility of a Meat Tax

Floris de Graad

28. Facilitating sustainable dietary choices for positive nutritional and environmental outcomes

Maysoun A. Mustafa, Ayman Salama and Sayed Azam-Ali

29. Environmental Systems Innovation in ancient India with Factor X components as revealed in old Tamil Manuscripts

Kannan Narayanan

Biography

Harry Lehmann is General Director of the Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies Division of the German Federal Environment Agency. He was an early member, and is now the President, of the Factor 10 Club for resource productivity and sustainable use of natural resources. He is one of the founders of Eurosolar and since 2011 he has been executive Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Council.