BUS 200 Lecture 22: Lecture 22 Thursday April 27
3.3 Defining Eco-Effectiveness
• Eco-efficiency delays environmental pollution and the exhaustion of natural resources.
• An eco-efficient approach would allow the use of fossil fuels to be minimized, but it will never
be possible to eliminate their use completely
• Eco-effectiveness is based on a closedcycle approach, in which materials are used in new
products, processes and objects in a way that they are 100% re-usable or can be recycled, and in
which the energy for all activities must be renewable.
• Eco-effectiveness causes no adverse effects in relation to sustainability.
• To work effectively towards sustainability, an eco-effective approach is essential to achieve
positive effects in a range of areas.
• A certain level of eco-efficiency can certainly be valuable in an effective system.
• Eco-efficiency can also be valuable as a transitional strategy towards an effective system.
3.4 Triple E
Economy: the production and economic effects of goods and services;
Ecology: the environment in which we live;
Equity: equality of people, animals and plants;
• Both these approaches bring ecological, economic and social factors into a direct and balanced
interrelationship
• The Triple E strategy is not only about people, but about equality of people, animals and plants
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