Resource consumptionResource consumption is about the consumption of non-renewable, or less often, renewable resources. Specifically, it may refer to: water consumption energy consumption electric energy consumption world energy consumption natural gas consumption/gas depletion oil consumption/oil depletion logging/deforestation fishing/overfishing land use/land loss or resource depletion and general exploitation and associated environmental degradation Measures of resource consumption are resource intensity and resource efficiency.
Broad measures of economic progressAlthough for many decades, it was customary to focus on GDP and other measures of national income, there has been growing interest in developing broad measures of economic well-being. National and international approaches include the Beyond GDP programme developed by the European Union, the Better Lives Compendium of Indicators developed by the OECD, as well as many alternative metrics of wellbeing or happiness.
Revenu nationalLe revenu national (RN) au prix du marché représente l’ensemble des revenus primaires reçus par les différents secteurs institutionnels du pays. Le revenu national = Produit intérieur brut + (Revenu Net du travail, de propriété, des entreprises reçues du reste du monde) - la consommation de capital fixe - les impôts (net de subvention versé aux institutions de l'Union européenne). Le revenu national est le revenu perçu par les agents économiques nationaux du fait de leur participation à l'activité de production.
Triple bottom linevignette|Schéma de fonctionnement de la triple bottom line. La , ou en français triple performance, triple résultat ou triple bilan, est la transposition de la notion de développement durable en entreprise, par l'évaluation de la performance de l’entreprise à l'aune des trois piliers du développement durable : social : conséquences sociales de l’activité de l’entreprise pour l’ensemble de ses parties prenantes (ou stakeholders en anglais) (people) ; environnemental : compatibilité entre l’activité de l’entreprise et le maintien des écosystèmes (planet) ; économique (profit).
Plant genetic resourcesPlant genetic resources describe the variability within plants that comes from human and natural selection over millennia. Their intrinsic value mainly concerns agricultural crops (crop biodiversity). According to the 1983 revised International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), plant genetic resources are defined as the entire generative and vegetative reproductive material of species with economical and/or social value, especially for the agriculture of the present and the future, with special emphasis on nutritional plants.
