- Factor 10
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coagulation cascade factor, seefactor X "{Cleanup|date=May 2007Factor Ten refers to the possibility of creating products and services that have a massively lower resource intensity than the conventional alternative.
It evolved from the concept of Factor Four, as developed at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment & Energy. [See: www.wupperinst.org/FactorFour.] [ "FACTOR FOUR - Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use" was the title of the related book published by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Amory and Hunter Lovins in 1995.]
Factor Ten goes further as a response to the
United Nations Environment Programme call for a tenfold reduction in resource consumption in the industrialised countries as a necessary long-term target if adequate resources are to be released for the needs of thedeveloping countries . [(UNEP, Global Environmental Outlook 2000, 1999).]Factor X concept is the direct way of utilising metric and various activities that can reduce the throughput of resources and energy in the given process. The essential question is: by what factor can or should certain flows be reduced? It is a useful tool to monitor the performance of business in terms of dematerialization. [(Robert,K.H., Schmidt-Bleek,B. et al. "Strategic sustainable development, selection, design and synergies of applied tools." Journal of Cleaner Production, 2002).]
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