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Pages: 158
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-29 - Publisher: OECD Publishing

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of household consumption patterns in five key areas: food, tourism-related travel, energy, water and waste generatio
Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment
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Authors: Matthias Finkbeiner
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-27 - Publisher: Springer

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This book presents specialised methods and tools built on classical LCA. In the first book-length overview, their importance for the further growth and applicat
Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Roland Clift
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-11 - Publisher: Springer

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How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What pro
The New Consumers
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Norman Myers
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-10 - Publisher: Island Press

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While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers"
Urban Consumption
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Peter Wesley Newton
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Growth in human consumption is the transcending problem of our times. In the short span of 50 years, high income societies have shifted from an era when a ‘si