Publications related to Resource efficiency

The Long View Exploring Product Lifetime Extension

Less than nine months into 2017, more resources than our planet produces over the whole year were consumed globally, marked by Earth Overshoot Day. Short use and fast replacement of products increasingly dictates consumption patterns in many regions. As fa ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

A Holistic Methodology for Optimizing Industrial Resource Efficiency

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Julia Granacher

Efficient consumption of energy and material resources, including water, is the primary focus for process industries to reduce their environmental impact. The Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21) highlighted the prominent role of industrial energy effici ...

2019

Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Valeria Superti

Currently our world is becoming increasingly urban, with around 50% of its population living in cities. Whereas cities produce 80% of the worldwide GDP and are places with high innovation, they also consume 75% of worldwide resources and produce 80% of CO2 ...

2019

Optimization Formulations for the Design of Low Embodied Energy Structures Made from Reused Elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

The building sector is one of the major contributors to material resource consumption, greenhouse gas emission and waste production. Load-bearing systems have a particularly large environmental impact because of their material and energy intensive manufact ...

Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature2018

Exploring the potential of e-mobility to improve resource efficiency through scenario-based life cycle analysis

The transport sector is the second largest emitter of GHG emissions in the EU and about two thirds of the emissions are generated from road transport. More importantly, while emissions from other sectors have shown a consistent decreasing trend, GHG emissi ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

HOUSEHOLDS RESOURCE CONSUMPTION: IMPACT AND POTENTIALS OF SOCIAL PRACTICES

The transformation of society to sustainable consumption and production patterns is a future key challenge. Households play a major role in this transformation process. This paper describes results of a resource consumption analysis at household level, con ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

The food industry belongs to the most significant economic sectors worldwide. Regarding resource use, human nutrition is responsible for about 30 % of global resource consumption. In order to decrease resource consumption to a level in line with planetary ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy

Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille

In light of the environmental consequences of linear production and consumption processes, the circular economy (CE) is gaining momentum as a concept and practice, promoting closed material cycles by focusing on multiple strategies from material recycling ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2017

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Resource efficiency

PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

The Long View Exploring Product Lifetime Extension

A Holistic Methodology for Optimizing Industrial Resource Efficiency

Methodology for the identification of promising integrated biorefineries

Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators

Optimization Formulations for the Design of Low Embodied Energy Structures Made from Reused Elements

Exploring the potential of e-mobility to improve resource efficiency through scenario-based life cycle analysis

HOUSEHOLDS RESOURCE CONSUMPTION: IMPACT AND POTENTIALS OF SOCIAL PRACTICES

Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy

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Chat with Graph Search

PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

A Holistic Methodology for Optimizing Industrial Resource Efficiency

Methodology for the identification of promising integrated biorefineries

The Long View Exploring Product Lifetime Extension

Exploring the potential of e-mobility to improve resource efficiency through scenario-based life cycle analysis

Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators

Optimization Formulations for the Design of Low Embodied Energy Structures Made from Reused Elements

HOUSEHOLDS RESOURCE CONSUMPTION: IMPACT AND POTENTIALS OF SOCIAL PRACTICES

Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy