Nachhaltige Nutzung der Ressource Holz durch Identifizierung von Innovationspotentialen fuer umweltorientierte Produktentwicklungen in den Bereichen Papier, Moebel, Bauen/Wohnen Endbericht und Anhaenge zum Endbericht

Published in two volumesSIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8908(2000,308): RN 8908(2000,308, Anh.) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman

Neue Nutzungskonzepte fuer Produkte Oekologische Entlastungspotenziale, Umsetzungsprobleme und Entwicklungsperspektiven von Strategien zur Nutzungsdauerverlaengerung und Nutzungsintensivierung. Endbericht

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F01B270 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman

Ressourcenproduktivitaet: Zentralisierung oder Dezentralisierung wirtschaftlicher Taetigkeiten? WZN-Verbundprojekt 'Zukunft der Arbeit'. Diskussionspapier Nr. 11

The central question of this project is: Do the various strategies of increasing resource productivity lead to a decentralisation or centralisation of economic activities, and what are the main reasons? We try to answer this question with the help of some well documented case studies. The decision of an enterprise to decentralise is business activities, depends primarily on market potentials and the specific market requirements, and on the chosen strategy of increasing resource productivity. Decisions on a spatial decentralisation or centralisation of economic activities depend on vatious factors. The most important factor is proximity to markets and customers. Therefore, we can observe spatial decentralisation of economic activities wherever enterprises offer mass customization, product-accompanying serveces like e.g. repair and reconditioning, or where selling the services of a product (instead of the products themselves) are an important business field. The second important factor are transport and logistics costs. If they constitute an important share of total costs, we can observe, that enterprises aim at decentralising corresponding economic activities. The case studies show that the strategies of increasing resource productivities lead to a spatial decentralisation and regionalisation of economic activities as well as to the creation of new jobs. But these trends are still weak, because we are just at the beginning of a forthcoming trend where increasing resource productivity and eco-efficiency become important new business fields. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RR 9689(1998,6) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman