"Durch die Menschen ist die Erde voller Gewalttat." So sprach ER und beschloss. "Nun will ich sie zugleich mit der Erde verderben." -- Zur profitgetriebenen Verwüstung unseres Planeten als Preis für fragwürdigen Fortschritt. Ein (fiktives) Interview mit Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels und Papst...

Chapter 1. An introduction to the sustainable consumption and production: transitioning into circular economy -- Chapter 2. From business models to modes of provision: framing sustainable consumption and production -- Chapter 3. Histories and futures of circular economy -- Chapter 4. Critical...

Produktionsbezogener Umweltschutz in der Automobilindustrie -- Modellierung stoffstrombasierter Produktionssysteme -- Mathematisches Optimierungsmodell zur Bestimmung eines optimalen Investitionsprogramms -- Analyse und Verbesserung von Kühlwassersystemen

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

Spatial Analysis of Cultural Resources and their Contribution to the Sustainable Tourism Development of Greece -- Exploring Stakeholders' Perspectives on Hotel Design -- Tourists’ Willingness to pay for Environmental and Sociocultural Sustainability in Destinations: Underlying Factors and the...

Innovation, Catch-up and Sustainable Development -- PART I INNOVATION -- The Influence of Science and ‘Industrial Enlightenment’ on Steelmaking, 1786-1856 -- Science and Technology Relatedness: The Case of DNA Nanoscience & DNA Nanotechnology -- Observable Factors of Innovation Strategy:...

‘It is of great value to complement the limitations of contemporary mainstream economic growth discourse by exploiting the complex relations between technology, development, and inequality, while concurrently providing a better academic orientation in the era of the upcoming Industrial...

Introduction -- Emerging markets perspectives on G-20 led financial reforms -- Global Finance Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis -- Where is the US trade policy headed under the Trump Administration? -- Trade, Investment, and the Multilateral Trading System -- Technological Change and...