Eco-Efficiency Indicators for Urban Transport

Eco-Efficiency Indicators for Urban Transport

This paper focuses on urban passenger transport eco-efficiency, which can be defined as the production of maximum benefits to society while minimising environmental impacts from urban transport’s inputs of energy and materials. Researchers have intensively studied transport’s varied environmental impacts, particularly through Life Cycle Assessment; this paper argues that primary transport energ...

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

Eco-efficient Transport - Interim report on potentials of technologies and concepts supporting eco-efficient transport

The report offers an overview on relevant technologies and concepts that have the potential to support an eco-efficient transport system, and it provides an overview of important trends and challenges in the passenger and freight transport sector. As such the findings are used for the design of the scenarios conducted in phase 3.

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...