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  • Sustainable Resource Management coupled to resilient germplasm to provide new intensive cereal grain legume livestock systems in the dry savanna
    Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 2003
    Co-Authors: Nteranya Sanginga, Kenton E Dashiell, J Diels, Bernard Vanlauwe, O Lyasse, R J Carsky, Shirley A Tarawali, Baffour Asafoadjei, Abebe Menkir, S Schulz
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    Abstract Sustainable Resource Management is the critical agricultural research and development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. The accumulated knowledge on soil Management gathered over the last 10 years, combined with solid crop improvement and plant health research at farmers’ level, has brought us to a stage where we can now address with confidence the intensification of cereal–grain–legume-based cropping systems in the dry savanna of West Africa in a Sustainable and environmentally positive manner. Two Sustainable farming systems that greatly enhance the productivity and sustainability of integrated livestock systems have been developed and implemented in the dry savanna of Nigeria. These are: (i) maize ( Zea mays L.)–promiscuous soybean [ Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotations that combine high nitrogen fixation and the ability to kill large numbers of Striga hermonthica seeds in the soil; and (ii) miflet [ Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaerth] and dual-purpose cowpea [ Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.]. Improvement of the cropping systems in the dry savanna has been driven by the adoption of promiscuously nodulating soybean varieties (in particular TGx 1448-2E) and dual-purpose cowpea. The rate of adoption is very high, even in the absence of an efficient seed distribution system. The number of farmers cultivating the improved varieties increased by 228% during the last 3 years. Increased production of promiscuous soybean has been stimulated by increased demand from industries and home utilization. Production in Nigeria was estimated at 405,000 t in 1999 compared to less than 60,000 t in 1984. Economic analysis of these systems shows already an increase of 50–70% in the gross incomes of adopting farmers compared to those still following the current practices, mainly continuous maize cultivation. Furthermore, increases in legume areas of 10% in Nigeria (about 30,000 ha in the northern Guinea savanna) and increases of 20% in yield have translated into additional fixed nitrogen valued annually at US$ 44 million. This reflects, at the same time, an equivalent increase in land-use productivity, and with further spread of the improved crops, there are excellent prospects for additional economic and environmental benefits from a very large recommendation domain across West Africa.

Rocco Papa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Raimund Bleischwitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Sustainable Resource Management : global trends, visions and policies
    2017
    Co-Authors: Stefan Bringezu, Raimund Bleischwitz
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    1. Introduction Stefan Bringezu and Raimund Bleischwitz 2 Analysing global Resource use of national and regional economies across various levels Stefan Bringezu, Isabel van de Sand, Helmut Schutz, Raimund Bleischwitz and Stephan Moll 3 Europe's Resource use: basic trends, global and sectoral patterns, environmental and socioeconomic impacts Stefan Bringezu, Helmut Schutz, Mathieu Saurat, Stephan Moll, Jose Acosta-Fernandez and Soren Steger 4 Visions of a Sustainable Resource use Stefan Bringezu 5 Outline of a Resource policy and its economic dimension Raimund Bleischwitz, Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak, Stefan Bringezu, Rainer Lucas, Soren Steger, Henning Wilts, Mathias Onischka and Oliver Roder

  • An International Metal Covenant: A Step Towards Global Sustainable Resource Management
    Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 2012
    Co-Authors: Henning Wilts, Raimund Bleischwitz
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    This chapter addresses material leakage as a major problem of international open markets for used goods, in particular for used vehicles. It develops elements of an international metal covenant that should allow for a more Sustainable Management of global material flows in that area. The arguments in favour of such a proposal are as follows: Any regulation should actively seek for industry participation, taking advantage of business interest in supplying a sufficient amount of materials while lowering materials cost. It should also address public issues such as sustainability of recycling and waste. A first section analyses contracts as a tool to overcome knowledge problems that occur when many actors are involved. A second short section gives empirical evidence for material leakage in the case of used vehicles from Germany. A third section develops elements of an international metal covenant. A fourth section analyses potential impacts and discusses legal and institutional issues. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.

  • Sustainable Resource Management
    Greenleaf Publishing (2009), 2009
    Co-Authors: Stefan Bringezu, Raimund Bleischwitz
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    This work explores radical perspectives on how the global economy should use natural Resources in intelligent ways. It is based on research by Germany's Wuppertal Institute.

  • Global Governance for Sustainable Resource Management
    Minerals & Energy - Raw Materials Report, 2008
    Co-Authors: Raimund Bleischwitz, Stefan Bringezu
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    This article introduces elements of a global governance regime for Sustainable Resource Management. It argues that such an approach is needed to combat the negative impacts arising from Resource extraction and use as well as to overcome the co‐ordination problems of decentralized action. A first section summarizes main conflicts arising from limited access to natural Resources and security of supply, environmental impacts and the performance of Resource‐rich developing countries. A second section analyses existing initiatives for Sustainable Resource Management such as Resource funds, efforts to increase transparency, programmes in development co‐operation, standards and certification, material efficiency and Resource productivity as well as efforts to limit the consumption of natural Resources. Though these initiative have their merits, the article concludes that more systematic institutional mechanisms are needed. The third section introduces those institutional mechanisms: it describes the Internationa...

  • Aggregates and construction markets in Europe : towards a sectoral action plan on Sustainable Resource Management
    Minerals & Energy - Raw Materials Report, 2007
    Co-Authors: Raimund Bleischwitz, Bettina Bahn-walkowiak
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    Aggregates are granular materials – sand, gravel and crushed rock, in particular. Usually they are not thought of as a hot spot of environmental policy. This paper looks at the most important aspects of the aggregates system throughout Europe and puts it into the wider context of Sustainable Resource Management as launched by the European Commission (2005b) in its thematic strategy (COM(2005) 670 final). Aggregates are important for Sustainable Resource Management chiefly for two reasons:•their material intensity – their relevance for increasing Resource productivity in the European Union (EU) as part of the Lisbon strategy and the sustainability strategy;1•their environmental intensity – their relevance for increasing eco‐efficiency and for lowering environmental impacts in the EU.Both dimensions will be looked at in this paper. For understanding those dimensions, the aggregates value chain – the construction material industries, the building industries' outcomes, and the housing sector – is crucial too....

Jingzheng Ren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Recent progress on innovative urban infrastructures system towards Sustainable Resource Management
    Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2018
    Co-Authors: Liang Dong, Yutao Wang, Antonio Scipioni, Hung-suck Park, Jingzheng Ren
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    Abstract Urban infrastructure, as the interface between the socioeconomic activities and natural Resources/build environment, is critical to Sustainable Resource Management at urban scale. To address various emerging challenges and capture opportunities for urban transition from an infrastructure system innovation perspective, this Special Issue (“Urban infrastructures system for Sustainable Resource Management”) of the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling > highlighted recent progress on characterizing the sustainability of infrastructure system towards Sustainable urban development and Resource Management, based upon comprehensive reviews, regenerative urban infrastructures development and urban industrial symbiosis, novel and integrated planning and evaluation tools/methods, and the innovative policies. The 21 articles in this SI showed that tangible socioeconomic and environmental benefits were able to be achieved from innovation on urban infrastructures system. The results and recommendations provided critical insights on how to promote innovative urban infrastructure development within different contexts. Via reviewing on the articles in this SI, an integrated framework for future research concerns and implications on promoting Sustainable urban infrastructure planning and Management is proposed, so as to create the synergies for addressing urban and regional environmental quality and impacts, and methods to track the ever-improvements through the established research framework.

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