Transitioning to Responsible Consumption and Production

• Author : Lisa McNeill
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release Date : 2020-10-15
• ISBN : 9783038978725

Responsible Consumption and Production, the twelfth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12), calls for significant change in how we view both production and consumption norms. It is predicted that, at the current rate of population growth and consumption, the natural resources needed to sustain current lifestyles would require the equivalent of almost three planets by 2050. It is clear that change is required, involving action from everyone from the producer to the final consumer. Since sustainable consumption aims for world citizens to ‘

• Author : Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour,Syed Abdul Rehman Khan
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2021-10-28
• ISBN : 9789811647604

This book opens up a critical dimension to the field of industrial ecology. The book discusses the post COVID-19 trends in the field of industrial ecology and evolving practices adopted by firms for betterment of environment and society. The authors identify valuable lessons to be learned and present conceptual frameworks to guide future industrial ecology applications. Transforming industrial systems into closed-loop industrial ecosystems dramatically reduces the negative impact of industrial activities on the environment. Therefore, this book is important not

• Author : Louis Lebel,Sylvia Lorek,Rajesh Daniel
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2009-12-02
• ISBN : 9789048130900

Sustainable Production Consumption Systems brings together a set of designed case studies intended to provide a more in-depth understanding of challenges and opportunities in bringing knowledge and actions closer together for the sustainable management of specific production and consumption systems. The case study approach enabled researchers to engage directly with some of the actors involved in the production, consumption or regulation of specific goods or services and other stakeholders affected by those processes. Such engagement was particularly worthwhile when it

• Author : Ranjula Bali Swain,Susanne Sweet
• Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
• Release Date : 2021-04-05
• ISBN : 3030563707

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be successful. This calls for innovative approaches to address the complex environmental, social, and economic interrelationships that have to be addressed in transforming to sustainable development. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development aims to

• Author : Ranjula Bali Swain,Susanne Sweet
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2020-11-07
• ISBN : 9783030552855

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today’s linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II: Circular Economy and Beyond aims to explore the sustainable consumption and production transition to a circular economy, while addressing critical global challenges by innovating and transforming product and service markets towards sustainable development. This book explores how consumers, private

• Author : Paul Nieuwenhuis,Anne Touboulic
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release Date : 2021-02-26
• ISBN : 9781839108044

This incisive book integrates the academic fields of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as a framework for challenging the current economic paradigm and addressing the significant ecological and environmental problems faced by the contemporary business world.

• Author : Jennifer Moore Bernstein,Robert O. Vos
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release Date : 2021-11-08
• ISBN : 9781789731019

This book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.

• Author : Frano Barbir,Sergio Ulgiati
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2008-05-29
• ISBN : 9781402084942

Energy and environmental security are major problems facing our global economy. Fossil fuels, particularly crude oil, are confined to a few regions of the world and the continuity of supply is governed by dynamic political, economic and ecological factors. These factors conspire to force volatile, often high fuel prices while, at the same time, environmental policy is - manding a reduction in greenhouse gases and toxic emissions. Yet incr- sed growth and demand for welfare by developed and developing countries

• Author : Walter Leal Filho,Anabela Marisa Azul,Luciana Brandli,Pinar Gökcin Özuyar,Tony Wall
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2020-03-04
• ISBN : 3319957252

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three

• Author : Joyce D'Silva,John Webster
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-08-23
• ISBN : 9781317203131

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis. Globally, 70 billion farm animals are used for food production every year. It is well accepted that livestock production is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) predicts a rough doubling of meat and milk consumption in the first half of the 21st century, with particularly rapid growth occurring in the developing economies of Asia. What will this mean for the health

• Author : Alberto do Amaral Junior,Lucila de Almeida,Luciane Klein Vieira
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2019-10-21
• ISBN : 9783030169855

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how. Bringing together legal scholars from the Global South and the Global North, it examines these questions in the context of national, transnational and international law, within single and plural legal systems, and across a range of sector-specific issue areas. The chapters identify how traditional legal disciplines (e.g. constitutional law, consumer law, public procurement, international public law), sector-related

• Author : Dirk Scheer,Frieder Rubik
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : UOM:39015064708855

This volume provides a detailed analysis of integrated product policy which aims to improve the environmental performance of products and services through their life-cycle. Topics include: sustainable production and consumption; life-cycle; economic instruments; phase-out of dangerous materials; voluntary agreements; and more.

• Author : Guido Sonnemann,Manuele Margni
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2015-07-16
• ISBN : 9789401772211

This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of business and its value chains. In this regard, LCM is an opportunity to differentiate through sustainability performance on the market place, working with all departments of a company such as research and development, procurement and marketing, and to enhance the

• Author : Nadia El-Hage Scialabba
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2021-12-09
• ISBN : 9780128230510

Managing Healthy Livestock Production and Consumption is a highly interdisciplinary resource based on scientific and empirical evidence. It is illustrated with best practices of low-input livestock systems from different continents and offers predictive modelling alternatives for a more resilient future. By addressing gaps of knowledge and presenting scientific perspective studies of livestock’s impact on the environment and the global food supply up to 2050, this book is useful for those advocating for sustainable food systems. Existing evidence of the effects

• Author : United Nations Publications
• Publisher : UN
• Release Date : 2017-04-03
• ISBN : 9280733648

"This Handbook is an output of UNEP's work towards the implementation of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). This global edition is based on a pilot edition for Asia and the Pacific region that was developed under the EU funded and UNEP managed Regional Policy Support Component of the SWITCH-Asia programme. It is designed to assist policymakers in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies that support the transition towards SCP. It includes numerous case studies