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Sustainable consumption and resource management in the light of life cycle thinking

✍ Scribed by Mont, Oksana ;Bleischwitz, Raimund

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
139 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0961-0405

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Approaches to address unsustainable ways of societal development constantly proliferate, but total consumption of resources and aggregate environmental impacts continue rising. This could partially be explained by weak attempts to develop comprehensive sustainability strategies that address the entire life cycle of products and especially resource extraction and use phases. This paper seeks to explore to what extent these life cycle stages and associated impacts are taken into account when various actors employ life cycle thinking and how these concerns can be better attended to in policy‐making, business strategies and lifestyle choices. To accomplish this, we evaluate the efforts of the main stakeholders in reaching sustainable consumption and sustainable resource management, and impediments to further progress, and study whether and how deficits in these phases coincide and can potentially contribute to more holistic practical realization of life cycle thinking. We demonstrate that new approaches are needed to be able to tackle the international dimension of production and consumption. Copyright Β© 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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