Factor X

1. Global Material Flows and Their Environmental Impacts: An Overview
Uwe R. Fritsche

2. Increased Resource Efficiency: The Key Issue for Ecology and the Economy
Michael Müller

3. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
Niko Paech

4. Economic Growth and Resource Use
Andreas Breitenfellner

5. Resource Protection Policy: An Opinion from the NGO Perspective
Olaf Tschimpke, Benjamin Bongardt

6. Legislation on the Protection of Natural Resources: Basic Considerations and Legal Perspectives
Ulrich Smeddinck

7. An International Metal Covenant: A Step Towards Global Sustainable Resource Management
Henning Wilts, Raimund Bleischwitz

8. The Austrian Minerals Plan
Leopold Weber

9. Materials Efficiency in Product Design and Manufacturing
Mario Schneider, Volker Härtwig, Julia Kaltschew, Yvonne Langer, Kristin Prietzel

10. Strategies to Increase Resource Efficiency
Martin Faulstich, Markus Köglmeier, Anna Leipprand, Mario Mocker

11. Developing Waste Management into an Element of Resource-Efficient Material Flow Management
Michael Angrick

12. Resource-Conserving Use of the Stock of Residential Buildings to Reduce Absolute Demand in the “Construction and Housing” Area of Need
Julia Verlinden

13. Anthropogenic Stock as a Source of Raw Materials: Optimized Utilization of Recycled Building Materials to Conserve Resources
Hermann Keßler, Florian Knappe

14. The Importance of Rare Metals for Emerging Technologies
Armin Reller, Volker Zepf, Benjamin Achzet

15. Recycling of Precious and Special Metals
Christian Hagelüken

16. Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap
Knut Sander, Joachim Wuttke

17. The Limited Resources of Phosphorus and How to Close the Phosphorus Cycle
Christian Kabbe

18. About the Need of Resource Efficiency Programmes: The Editors’ View
Michael Angrick, Andreas Burger, Harry Lehmann

Keywords: Environment, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environment, general, Industrial and Production Engineering