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  • Life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle inventory (LCI) and life cycle impact assessment (LCIA).

    Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for identifying/comparing the whole life cycle, or cradle-to-grave, environmental impacts of the creation, marketing, transport and distribution, operation and disposal of specific human …

  • Jevons’ Paradox (Rebound Effect)

    A central concept in industrial ecology, the term Jevons’ Paradox was derived from a passage in The Coal Question (Jevons, 1865), in which the author analysed improvements in the efficiency …

  • Resource intensity and productivity

    Resource intensity is a measure of the resources (e.g. materials, energy and water) required for the provision of a unit of a good or service. It is usually expressed as …

  • PODCAST: Devlin Kuyek on the ProSavana project 1

    Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying …