It also allows us to rate the choices and the kind of resource consumption we want.
"People see the need to revamp our whole notion of energy and of resource consumption," Frederick says.
Total global resource use increased by 45% from 1980 to 2005, and per capita levels of resource consumption are at their highest level in history.
We propose that these limitations arise largely from a poor definition of resource consumption.
However there is little effort on providing elasticity based on performance goals instead of resource consumption.
Causal relations are analyzed along several dimensions including notions of resource consumption, degree of responsibility, instrumentality, and degree of causal contribution.
Results from modeling of alternative production scenarios shows hydrothermal liquefaction to be a promising technology in terms of resource consumption.
Specifically, providing feedback of resource consumption to residential building occupants has been demonstrated to be effective in promoting conservation.
The LCAs suggest that constructed wetlands have less environmental impact, in terms of resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
This is the idea of the circular economy – an attempt to move away from our current 'take and dispose' approach to exploiting natural resources, which feeds an inefficient, linear model of resource consumption.
In this case study, we show that the applicability of the Ecological Footprint, an overarching outcome measure of resource consumption, for targeting climate change mitigation in cities.
