Key Elements for Economy-wide Sustainable Resource Management

摘要: It is getting tighter on our globe. A growing world population richer and demands more products which require natural resources create various environmental impacts from mining to final waste disposal. The competition rarer metals let some countries prohibit exports containing such raw materials. rising demand for food non-food biomass, as feed-stocks biofuels, harvests fluctuating severely, due frequent weather extremes, triggered land grabbing in foreign countries, particularly developing regions. Without mechanisms moderating resource consumption, abiotic biotic will be depleted, refining devastate pollute places remote areas, agriculture expand into the remaining forests, conflicts about use clean water increase.