Tragedy of the commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory by Garrett Hardin, which states that individuals acting independently and rationally according to each’s self-interest, behave…
Resource use and its consequences http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/waste-resources/resource-use-its-consequences There’s no doubt about it: resource use is freighted with consequences. It inevitably generates emissions and other untoward environmental effects across the entire lifecycle…
Responsible Use of Resources http://www.suscon.net/default.asp?Menue=128&News=254 Resources are getting scarcer and scarcer on this planet and global population is still growing – by more than 2 billion people by 2050. Efficient…