Eco-efficiency, regulation, and sustainable business towards a governance structure for sustainable development /

This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefi...

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Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Bleischwitz, Raimund., Hennicke, Peter.
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2004.
Series:ESRI studies series on the environment.
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Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781843766872.xml
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Translating sustainable development into practice : a "patchwork" of some new concepts and an introduction to material flows analysis
  • 2. Towards a new kind of technological progress
  • 3. Emerging regulatory policies for eco-efficiency
  • 4. Sustainable business and consumption strategies
  • 5. Bridging the data gap
  • 6. Concluding thoughts.