Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Author of Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use - A Report to the Club of Rome
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Don't combine ERNST ULRICH with ERNST (HEINRICH)
- Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (1882-1951, Author of "Memoirs of Ernst Von Weizsacker"
- Ernst Ulrich von WEIZSÄCKER (1939- )
Series
Works by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use - A Report to the Club of Rome (1998) — Author — 124 copies
Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity (2010) 29 copies
Come On!: Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (2017) — Author — 10 copies
Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing: A Report to the Club of Rome (2005) 8 copies
Wir sind dran. Club of Rome: Der große Bericht: Was wir ändern müssen, wenn wir bleiben wollen. Eine neue… (2017) — Author — 7 copies
Grenzen-los?: Jedes System braucht Grenzen - aber wie durchlässig müssen diese sein? (1997) 3 copies
Gutes Trinkwasser - wie schu tzen? : Konflikte um Wasserversorgung und Gewa sserschutz; Bericht u ber 2… (1990) 2 copies
Waschen und Gewa sserschutz : e. Konflikt kommt zur Sprache; Bericht von 2 Expertengespra chen (1988) 2 copies
EXPO2000: Das Jahrhundert der Umwelt: Vision: Öko-effizient leben und arbeiten (Die Buchreihe zu den Themen der… (1999) 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von
- Legal name
- Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich Michael Freiherr von
- Other names
- Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von
- Birthdate
- 1939-06-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Germany
- Country (for map)
- Allemagne
- Birthplace
- Zürich, Suisse
- Occupations
- scientist
politician - Relationships
- Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von (parent)
Weizsäcker, Carl Christian von (sibling)
Raiser, Elisabeth (sibling)
Weizsäcker, Ernst von [2] (grandparent)
Weizsäcker, Richard von (uncle) - Disambiguation notice
- Don't combine ERNST ULRICH with ERNST (HEINRICH)
- Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (1882-1951, Author of "Memoirs of Ernst Von Weizsacker"
- Ernst Ulrich von WEIZSÄCKER (1939- )
Members
Reviews
Factor four : doubling wealth - halving resource use… by Ernst U. von Weizsäcker
Dated examination of business concepts, focusing on increasing net worth.
As a book of ideas it is excellent. As a read it is not nearly so satisfying, which is a real shame.
However, those ideas make it a worthwhile read if you are interested in solutions to environmental problems that are economically and scientifically feasible, and, one would like think, politically acceptable.
Quite apart from technical fixes - why aren't we all driving round in hypercars? why aren't all new buildings made to passivhaus standards? - which would make everyone better off, it also suggests solutions to problems with the market system, using, to a large extent market mechanisms. Thought provoking stuff: for example a local government in California wanted to allow new housing in the town but new the water supply was not sufficient. The solution was to tell developers that they could only get planning permission for a new house if they saved twice its projected water usage elsewhere in the existing water system. Developers were happy to do this (incorporating the cost in the cost of the new houses), smart entrepeneurs set up companies to do it for them, existing householders were approached with offers of free new bathrooms (the smart ones refused and were able to charge for the privilege), and the town used less not more water afterwards... imagine applying that approach to energy conservation.
So full of ideas (some of course better than others) but probably not one to read cover to cover.… (more)
However, those ideas make it a worthwhile read if you are interested in solutions to environmental problems that are economically and scientifically feasible, and, one would like think, politically acceptable.
Quite apart from technical fixes - why aren't we all driving round in hypercars? why aren't all new buildings made to passivhaus standards? - which would make everyone better off, it also suggests solutions to problems with the market system, using, to a large extent market mechanisms. Thought provoking stuff: for example a local government in California wanted to allow new housing in the town but new the water supply was not sufficient. The solution was to tell developers that they could only get planning permission for a new house if they saved twice its projected water usage elsewhere in the existing water system. Developers were happy to do this (incorporating the cost in the cost of the new houses), smart entrepeneurs set up companies to do it for them, existing householders were approached with offers of free new bathrooms (the smart ones refused and were able to charge for the privilege), and the town used less not more water afterwards... imagine applying that approach to energy conservation.
So full of ideas (some of course better than others) but probably not one to read cover to cover.… (more)
Professor John Shepherd has chosen to discuss Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use , on FiveBooks(http://five-books.com) as one of the top five on his subject – Science and Climate Change, saying that:
“ … The book is about how we don’t have to go back to living in stone caves and wearing hair shirts in order to sort this problem. If we use our intelligence we could achieve this factor four, which is expressed as doubling wealth and halving resources. And that is quite an appealing message. ….”
The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/john-shepherd… (more)
“ … The book is about how we don’t have to go back to living in stone caves and wearing hair shirts in order to sort this problem. If we use our intelligence we could achieve this factor four, which is expressed as doubling wealth and halving resources. And that is quite an appealing message. ….”
The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/john-shepherd… (more)
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