Resource Efficiency Indicators
This report summarises the presentations and discussions during the Workshop on Resource Efficiency Indicators held on 14 April 2015. There was general agreement that world economic growth will soon be limited by the earth’s carrying capacity. In order to have a system for steering the necessary policy measures a set of resource efficiency indicators is needed. In this indicator set priority should be given to most needed indicators. In addition, footprint type indicators, which take into account indirect flows, are needed. The workshop was organised by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
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Hubert Reisinger, Maria Tesar and Brigitte Read
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Keyword
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- cultivation of agricultural land
- economic conditions
- economic growth
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental impact
- environmental indicator
- environmental policy
- land use
- management of resources
- natural environment
- natural resources
- sustainable development
- waste recycling
- water management