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Factor four : doubling wealth- halving resource use ; the new report to the Club of Rome

Title
Factor four : doubling wealth- halving resource use ; the new report to the Club of Rome / Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins.
Author
Weizsäcker, Ernst U. von (Ernst Ulrich), 1939-
Publication
London : Earthscan Publications LTD, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Lovins, Amory B., 1947-
  • Lovins, L. Hunter, 1950-
  • Club of Rome.
Description
xxix, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
Uniform Title
Faktor vier. English
Alternative Title
Faktor vier.
Subject
  • Energy policy
  • Conservation of natural resources
  • Economic development
  • Power resources
Note
  • Translation of: Faktor Vier :doppelter Wohlstand- halbierter Naturverbrauch.--p. xvi.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.300-307) and index.
Contents
Introduction: More for Less -- Pt. 1. Fifty Examples of Quadrupling Resource Productivity. Ch. 1. Twenty Examples of Revolutionising Energy Productivity. Ch. 2. Twenty Examples of Revolutionising Material Productivity. Ch. 3. Ten Examples of Revolutionising Transport Productivity -- Pt. 2. Making it Happen - Improving Profitability. Ch. 4. If Markets Create the Problem, Can They Also Provide Much of the Answer? Ch. 5. Buying and Selling Efficiency. Ch. 6. Reward What We Want, Not the Opposite. Ch. 7. Ecological Tax Reform -- Pt. 3. A Sense of Urgency. Ch. 8. The Challenge from Rio. Ch. 9. Avalanches of Matter: The Forgotten Agenda. Ch. 10. Unsatisfactory Part-Solutions. Ch. 11. We May Have Fifty Years Left to Close the Gaps -- Pt. 4. A Brighter Civilisation. Ch. 12. Green Economics. Ch. 13. Trade and the Environment. Ch. 14. Non-Material Wealth.
ISBN
1853834076
OCLC
ocm37349972
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries