Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity

Harry Lehmann is General Director of the Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies Division of the German Federal Environment Agency. He was an early member, and is now the President, of the Factor 10 Club for resource productivity and sustainable use of natural resources. He is one of the founders of Eurosolar and since 2011 he has been executive Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Council.

• Part 1. Setting the Scene 1. RESCUE the Anthropocene – Urgent Actions for the Great Transformation 2. The world at the ultimate crossroads: climate change, environmental impacts, population, natural resources sufficiency in the long perspective with integrated models 3. Reporting resource use in Germany 4. The Rise of E-Mobility as a Trade-off between social and ecological benefits and Distributional Injustice: How the socio-technical regime and externalisation prevent a profound transformation of the mobility sector 5. The quest for the holy grail: Can smart cities lead us to sustainability? 6. Sustainable development as the ultimate target of adopting a nexus approach to resources management 7. The water-energy nexus of Brazil’s hydropower 8. Education, sustainable development, and resource management Part 2. Core Aspects of an Integrated Resource Policy 9. Systemic analysis of the nexus of greenhouse gas emissions and material use in the energy sector 10. Wrong Memes - Organic Farming and Battery Electric Vehicles 11. What’s going on abroad? Monitoring international resource policies 12. Pathways to a Resource-Efficient and Greenhouse-Gas Neutral Germany 13. Resource Use in a Post-fossil Green Germany 14. Vertical integration in a multi-level governance system using the example of the German Resource Efficiency Programme (ProgRess) 15. A strategy to increase the resource efficiency of renewable energy technologies 16. Governing Critical Infrastructure in digital futures 17. The energy transition in Deventer - A Hanseatic approach Part 3. Case Studies of Existing Solutions 18. Natural Resources as Common Goods 19. Sustainable Resource Output: Towards an Approach to a Multidimensional Environmental Assessment of Biomass Production 20. More Resource efficiency in production and products - Digitalisation supports industry and trades 21. 8 Tons of Lifestyle – Monitoring a Sustainable Material Footprint for Households in Germany and the World 22. C like Clever and Cycle – Without a smart and systematic conception of the metal industry, product labelling and an indicator system, nothing will happen 23. The Nexus of Procurement and Sustainability - Reflection of the Limits and Opportunities of Product Labels, Using the Example of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 24. The role of biomass use in a defossilised and resource-efficient world Part 4. Pioneering Innovations 25. Big, environmentally friendly events: Sparing resources, respecting nature, setting limits: An attempt by the German Protestant Festival (Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag) at organising a big event on a sustainable footing 26. The Kwawu resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems: A complex adaptive systems approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 27. Exploring the possibility of a Meat Tax 28. Facilitating sustainable dietary choices for positive nutritional and environmental outcomes 29. Environmental Systems Innovation in ancient India with Factor X components as revealed in old Tamil Manuscripts