The article estimates the natural resource consumption due to nutrition from the supply and demand sides. Using the MIPS (Material Input per Service Unit) methodology, we analyzed the use of natural resources along the supply chains of three Italian foodstuffs: wheat, rice and orange-based...

Eine andere Kultur des Umgangs mit Ressourcen ist notwendig, um nachhaltiges Wirtschaften zu ermöglichen. Der Sammelband „RessourcenKultur“ befasst sich mit der Frage: Was zeichnet kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) aus, die erfolgreich ressourceneffizient wirtschaften und Innovationen...

Increasing resource efficiency can potentially deliver important economic and environmental benefits. Many of these benefits are regularly foregone because the financial sector's capacity to adequately take the opportunities and risks arising from resource utilization and related climate change...

This important volume is a timely contribution to increasing international calls to regulate nanotechnologies. By investigating the ways in which we could regulate these advances, and what we are learning from regulating existing technologies, such as biotechnologies and information...