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"Bei der Bewertung des Ressourceneinsatzes in Deutschland spielt die Auswahl von Indikatoren eine wichtige Rolle. Veränderungen in der internationalen Arbeitsteilung wie eine verringerte Fertigungstiefe und eine über das Wirtschaftswachstum hinausgehende Steigerung des internationalen Handels lassen sich hierbei berücksichtigen. So kann der ursprüngliche Rohstoffeinsatz dem Land der letzten Verwendung und nicht dem produzierenden Land zugerechnet werden. Dies ist eine für Deutschland bedeutsame Korrektur. Die Daten zeigen für Deutschland – auch im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern – nennenswerte Fortschritte bei der Ressourcenproduktivität. Die in der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie der Bundesregierung von 2002 vorgesehene Verdopplung der Rohstoffproduktivität bis 2020 gegenüber 1994 wird jedoch schwer zu erreichen sein."

"An important challenge that community-university partnerships face is how to maintain themselves in the face of changing goals, priorities, and funding. Partnerships often form as a result of some sort of "spark:" an incident, perhaps, or the identification of a shared need or common concern. Often, external funding is sought to provide the majority of resources for the establishment of a partnership and for the implementation of the partnership's action plan. Whatever external funding is obtained is typically of short duration. The funding will not continue over time. And usually the funding comes with stipulations about allowable partnership approaches; inevitably the priorities of one funder will differ from those of another. These issues of the maintenance of partnership in the face of shifting funding and priorities are ones that confront most community-university partnerships. This article examines these issues through the lens of an environmental justice partnership that has existed for nearly a decade, has undergone many changes in who is involved, and has operated with funding from many different sources, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition, the entities in the partnerships, while they share certain environmental objectives, are sometimes at odds on particular goals when the needs of the agencies differ. Further complicating this issue of continuity is the reality that partners, on occasion, must shift priorities after partnership goals are established. The experiences of this environmental justice partnership shed light on the kinds of struggles community-university partnerships face when they hope to avoid being undermined by the larger concerns of the funders or by the power brokers in their individual organizations. This article examines approaches that community-university partnerships might take to remain resilient in the face of changing goals, priorities and funding."

"Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits--a notion central to environmentalism--clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, Limits shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need."