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Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production - Priority Products and Materials
The environmental and health
sciences have brought important
insights into the connection of
environmental pressures and
ecosystem damages. Well-known
assessments show that habitat
change, the overexploitation of
renewable resources, climate
change, and particulate matter
emissions are amongst the most
important environmental problems.
Biodiversity losses and ill health
have been estimated and evaluated.
This report focuses not on
the effects of environmental
pressure, but on its causes. It
describes pressures as resulting
from economic activities. These
activities are pursued for a
purpose, to satisfy consumption.
Environmental pressures are
commonly tied to the extraction
and transformation of materials
and energy. This report
investigates the productionmaterials-
consumption nexus.
The relative importance of
industries, consumption categories
and materials varies across the
world, as our assessment shows.
This assessment offers a detailed
problem description and analysis
of the causation of environmental
pressures and hence provides
knowledge required for reducing
environmental impacts. It tells
you where improvements are
necessary, but it does not tell you
what changes are required and
how much they will contribute to
improvements.
Language: English
Publication date:
June 2010
Programme:
Resource Panel
ISBN: 78-92-807-3084-5
Pages: 110
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