Resource use and resource efficiency in emerging economies : a pilot study on trends over the past 25 years

Wuppertal Institute
Sustainable Europe Research Institute, SERI

2011

333.72
S485

Improving resource efficiency is one of the main pillars of industrial efforts to tackle increasing resource prices and competition for scarce resources. At the political level, the growing attention also reflects concerns over resouce dependency, resource security and environmental impacts, notably climate change and the growing degradations of the world's ecosystems and the services they provide...

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