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SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES BY COMMUNICATING BENCHMARKS FOR RESOURCE CONSUMPTION WITH HELP OF A NOVEL ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

According to UNEP, household consumption is responsible for 60 % of the total life cycle impacts of final consumption in most countries. Therefore, the transition to a more sustainable society can only be achieved by changing current consumption and produc ...

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

Resilience of Transitions - Introducing seven Theses

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Thorsten Schilling

Within the sustainability discourse, resilience has been taken up more and more as a central boundary object. Resilience in principle has both static and dynamic elements to it, allowing a system to stay in an equilibrium without endangering its long-term ...

2017

Resilience of transitions - Seven theses to frame sustainability transitions from a resilience perspective

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Thorsten Schilling

2017

FUTURE HOUSEHOLDS: SMALLER FOOTPRINT, BETTER LIFE?

The paper presents a project on how to achieve future household consumption already today. The project calculated lifestyle material footprint, developed household-specific roadmaps for halving material footprints by 2030, tested relevant measures towards ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Developing a low-resource society – frameworks and scenarios towards a decoupled future

Resource-focused research on sustainability has revealed insights into the techno-economic aspects of living and working. Approaches that develop concrete pictures of societies in the future that are ready, able and willing to live and strive in a low-reso ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Introduction to High Pressure CO2 and H2O Technologies in Sustainable Biomass Processing

Jeremy Luterbacher, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago

Biomass is an attractive source of renewable carbon-based fuels and chemicals and their production is envisaged within the framework of integrated biorefineries. Multiple research efforts to make biorefineries more economically competitive and sustainable ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Discovery, evaluation, and analysis of novel pathways for production of five methyl ethyl ketone precursors

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi, Milenko Tokic

The limited amount of fossil fuels shifted research in industry and academia towards sustainable production of their substitutes. One of the most prominent biofuel candidates is Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK), due to its thermo-physical and transport properties ...

2017

Estimating critical extraction rates for the main metals for a sustainable society within the planetary limits

The critical rates of extraction of some metals was explored using a methodology based on the thinking behind critical loads for sulphur and nitrogen deposition developed in Europe 1990- 2010. With a long-term sustainability view in mind, critical rates ba ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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