Technological environmental innovations

Abstract: "This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental effects. The approaches applied to interpreting the datasets are innovation life cycle analysis, and product chain analysis. Main results include the following: 1. Innovations merely aimed at eco-efficiency do in most cases not represent significant contributions to improving the properties of the industrial metabolism. This can better be achieved by technologies that fulfill the criteria of eco-consistency (metabolic consistency), also called eco-effectiveness. 2. Ecological pressure of a technology is basically determined by its conceptual make-up and design. Most promising thus are technologies in earlier rather than later stages of their life cycle (i.e. during R&D and customisation in growing numbers), because it is during the sta

Object Details

• Alternative title: Technologische Umweltinnovationen
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 14 S.
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Der Hallesche Graureiher : Forschungsberichte des Instituts für Soziologie ; Bd. 2005-1

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Halle
• (when): 2005
• Creator: Huber, Joseph
• Contributor: Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Philosophische Fakultät I Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften, Institut für Soziologie

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-114677
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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