Business for sustainable change: Extending eco-efficiency and eco-sufficiency strategies to consumers

Sustainable Agricultural Development – Concepts, Principles, Eco-efficiency, Eco-equity, Eco-conditioning

* E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Starting with the reform of 1999 (named Agenda 2000), the Common Agricultural Policy has two main directions: market policy and sustainable development of rural zones. Since 2003, the environmental aspects were better integrated into the agricultural policy that included new measures or improvements of the existing ones, in order to promote the environment p...

Eco-efficiency and eco-productivity change over time in a multisectoral economic system

In the literature two approaches of productivity analyses can be found, namely the neoclassical approach and the frontier approach. Neoclassical analysis weights inputs by value shares, a procedure that requires data on factor input shares or prices. This approach imputes productivity growth to factors, but cannot distinguish a movement towards the efficiency frontier and a movement of the latt...

The efficiency and eco-efficiency of manufacturing

In this paper, we review the efficiency of both manufacturing processes and systems over recent decades and compare nano-materials technologies in this context. To a first approximation, nano-materials processes appear to be about as efficient as semi-conductor processes. That is, their second law efficiencies are of the order 10, while conventional processes are of order 10. However, many of t...

Eco-Efficiency in Corporate Budgeting

Diffusion of Eco-innovation strategies

The objective of this paper is to understand and study sustainable product development using a systems approach. In the real world, artifacts interact with each other to form a web structure (known as artifact system (AS)), which has its own laws of evolution. Specifically, this paper focuses on development of “Factor X” model to study the diffusion of ecoinnovation strategies. The concept of “...