Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9782911089985
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 74
Book Description
Une expertise de l'empreinte écologique
Author: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 6/10
Author: Ian SpellerbergPublisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN: 0977015904
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability presents a thorough and accessible overview of the ways in which sustainability is charted worldwide. Some articles introduce basic concepts, such as quantitative versus qualitative data or the weak versus strong sustainability debate; others examine how indicators in specific areas (climate change and soil conservation, agriculture, and mining) have been applied (or not) to different regions. Research analysts explain the modes and media through which these measurements are broadcast, stressing the importance of developing methods that can be understood by both experts and ordinary citizens. They also examine the process of monitoring, itself a controversial topic affecting national or international policy, law, rules, and regulations.
Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products
Author: Jo DewulfPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111893394X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously. Renewable energy and products have a significant role in the market today, and the same time sustainability assessment methods have advanced, with a growing standardization of environmental sustainability metrics and consideration of social issues as part of the assessment. Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies is an extensive update and sequel to the 2006 title Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment. It discusses the impressive evolution and role renewables have taken in our modern society, highlighting the importance of sustainability principles in the design phase of renewable-based technologies, and presenting a wide range of sustainability assessment methods suitable for renewables-based technologies, together with case studies to demonstrate their applications. This book is a valuable resource for academics, businesses and policy makers who are active in contributing to more sustainable production and consumption. For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrs Topics covered include: The growing role of renewables in our society Sustainability in the design phase of products and processes Principles of sustainability assessment Land use analysis Water use analysis Material and energy flow analysis Exergy and cumulative exergy analysisCarbon and environmental footprint methods Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Case studies: renewable energy, bio-based chemicals and bio-based materials.
Handbook of Sustainable Development
Author: Giles AtkinsonPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1782544704
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved.ø
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators
Author: Simon BellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317200314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the center ground of SI development but also divergent ideas which represent some of the diverse, challenging and even edgy observations which are prominent in the wider field of SI thinking. The contributions in this handbook: • clearly set out the theoretical background and history of SIs, their origins, roots and initial goals • expand on the disciplines and modalities employed to develop SIs of various kinds • assess the various ways in which SI data are gathered and the availability (over space and time) and quality issues that surround them • explore the multiplex world of SIs as expressed in agencies around the world, via examples of SI practice and the lessons that have emerged from them • critically review the progress that SIs have made over the last 30 years • express the divergence of views which are held about the value of SIs, including differing theories on their efficacy, efficiency and ethics • explore the frontier of contemporary SI thinking, reviewing ante/post and systemic alternatives This multidisciplinary and international handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students and practitioners working in sustainability research and practice.
L'empreinte écologique
Author: Aurélien BoutaudPublisher:
ISBN: 9782348035692
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 126
Book Description
Peut-on mesurer la durabilité écologique d\U+2019\une nation de manière claire et synthétique ? Est-il possible, à l\U+2019\instar du PIB, de résumer une réalité aussi complexe en un seul chiffre ? C\U+2019\est pour répondre à ces questions que l\U+2019\empreinte écologique a été inventée au début des années 1990. Mobilisant des centaines de données statistiques et scientifiques, cet ingénieux système de comptabilité a permis de démontrer que l\U+2019\économie mondiale consommait davantage de services issus de la biosphère que celle-ci était capable d\U+2019\en régénérer. Il a également servi à révéler les inégalités environnementales, en montrant par exemple qu\U+2019\il faudrait plusieurs planètes pour répondre aux besoins de l\U+2019\humanité si le modèle de consommation occidental venait à se généraliser. Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs reviennent dans le détail sur les tenants et les aboutissants de cet indicateur, que de nombreux écologistes ont élevé au rang de véritable totem. Ils en révèlent les forces, mais aussi les limites. Plus encore, dans cette nouvelle édition, ils montrent que la famille des empreintes environnementales s\U+2019\est largement développée au cours des dernières années, permettant d\U+2019\affiner notre appréhension des limites planétaires.
L'empreinte écologique
Author: Laurent Jolia-FerrierPublisher:
ISBN: 9782905015648
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 176
Book Description
L'empreinte écologique : outil fiable ou concept marketing sans fondement scientifique ? C'est à cette question, et à bien d'autres, que tente de répondre cet ouvrage. Fruit de l'expérience des meilleurs spécialistes français de l'empreinte écologique, qu'ils soient universitaires, consultants, industriels ou ingénieurs de la fonction publique, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'empreinte écologique, ses forces, ses faiblesses, ses limites, ainsi que sur les différents usages possibles. De nombreux exemples, pris tant dans le secteur privé que public, illustrent les propos des auteurs. Un ouvrage de référence. [4ème de couv.]
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738184480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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Author: Danielle Blancke