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Resources, Volume 3, Issue 3

2014 September - 4 articles

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Articles (4)

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,232 Views
24 Pages

Exploring the Potential of a German Living Lab Research Infrastructure for the Development of Low Resource Products and Services

  • Justus Von Geibler,
  • Lorenz Erdmann,
  • Christa Liedtke,
  • Holger Rohn,
  • Matthias Stabe,
  • Simon Berner,
  • Kristin Leismann,
  • Kathrin Schnalzer and
  • Katharina Kennedy

24 September 2014

Living Labs for Sustainable Development aim to integrate users and actors for the successful generation of low-resource innovations in production-consumption systems. This paper investigates potentials of and measures towards the realization of a Ger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
16,117 Views
31 Pages

Resource Use in the Production and Consumption System—The MIPS Approach

  • Christa Liedtke,
  • Katrin Bienge,
  • Klaus Wiesen,
  • Jens Teubler,
  • Kathrin Greiff,
  • Michael Lettenmeier and
  • Holger Rohn

28 August 2014

The concept Material Input per Service Unit (MIPS) was developed 20 years ago as a measure for the overall natural resource use of products and services. The material intensity analysis is used to calculate the material footprint of any economic acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
16,585 Views
28 Pages

Transitions in Theory and Practice: Managing Metals in the Circular Economy

  • Melissa Jackson,
  • Aleta Lederwasch and
  • Damien Giurco

11 July 2014

Transitioning from current resource management practice dominated by linear economic models of consumption and production, to circular models of resource use, will require insights into the stages and processes associated with socio-technical transit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
31,526 Views
28 Pages

9 July 2014

The paper suggests a sustainable material footprint of eight tons, per person, in a year as a resource cap target for household consumption in Finland. This means an 80% (factor 5) reduction from the present Finnish average. The material footprint is...

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