Ebook: The Earth: Natural Resources and Human Intervention

Editor's Foreword; Preface: how environmental protection mutated into an eco-strategy; Acknowledgments; 1 The Earth In Motion; How we manage natural resources; Dematerialization of the economy; Moving resources; Changing the way we manage the economy; The necessity of dematerialization; The ecological rucksack and an ecological metric; Energy in the ecological rucksack; How we manage resources; From old to new environmental policy; 2 The True Price Of Things; Focus on function; Two new concepts; Ecological rucksacks; The ecological price, or the true price of things.;We must dematerialization the global economy by 10 percent to stem the acceleration of climate change.