Towards a more sustainable metal use – Lessons learned from national strategy documents
| Autor: | Daniel J. Lang, Klaus Kümmerer, Annika Weiser, Manuel W. Bickel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Process management Sociology and Political Science Fair distribution Process (engineering) 020209 energy Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Production (economics) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Structure (mathematical logic) Raw material strategy sustainability Sustainability sciences Communication Chemistry Action (philosophy) Metals Sustainability Transition strategy Business Law cluster analysis Transdisciplinary studies |
| Zdroj: | Weiser, A, Bickel, M, Kümmerer, K & Lang, D J 2020, ' Towards a more sustainable metal use – Lessons learned from national strategy documents ', Resources Policy, vol. 68, 101770 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101770 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101770 |
| Popis: | There is urgent need to change the way we make use of non-renewable resources, especially metals, to sustain their availability for vital technologies associated with achieving change towards sustainability, but also to minimize negative impacts and to achieve a fair distribution of the wealth and burdens associated with their production and use. Especially public actors (state governments and administrations) have recently formulated strategies as a means to guide action fostering these goals. Yet, these strategies are very different in their character, which makes it difficult to compare them and learn how to best design strategies for a given context to contribute to the necessary change. To approach this question, we analyzed 37 national mineral resource-related strategy documents worldwide concerning their contextual conditions, motivation, and objectives. Following the general inputs for transition strategies (current and target state, transition strategy), we identified four clusters of strategy documents that share similarities in their approaches and support the development of specific recommendations for future strategy design in terms of both content and process. Designing strategies with a clear structure that interlinks a systems-based description of the current state, a clear vision (oriented at sustainability principles) and a sufficiently differentiated but at the same time flexible transition pathway improves their potential to contribute to more sustainable metal production and use. |
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