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Dematerialization is a term in economics and the social sciences that describes the process of making more goods with less material. [1] The term itself possesses multi-accentuality [definition needed], which allows it to be diversely explained by different fields of social science, such as Mainstream economics, which puts focus on the aspects of technological evolution and market demand ...
The dematerialization of a product literally means less, or better yet, no material is used to deliver the same level of functionality to the user. Sharing, borrowing and the organization of group services that facilitate and cater for communities needs could alleviate the requirement of ownership of many products.
Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, from the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, first proposed the Factor 10 and dematerialization concepts in the early 1990s. . He concluded in his studies that 80% of the world's resources are distributed among First World nations, which contribute 20% of the global population, so those nations are promoting an unsustainable system of developme
Dematerialization (economics), the reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions (doing more with less) Dematerialization (products), using less or no material to deliver the same level of functionality; Dematerialization (securities), moving from handling paper securities certificates to book form, usually electronic
Last month, the Wall Street Journal’s editors, who typically side with the president’s policies, called Trump’s tariff plan “the dumbest trade war in history. But there’s a method behind ...
In finance and financial law, dematerialization refers to the substitution of paper-form securities by book-entry securities. This is a form of indirect holding system in which an intermediary, such as a broker or central securities depository, or the issuer (e.g., French system) holds a record of the ownership of shares usually in electronic format.
Every year, Fortune publishes the Future 50, a ranking of the world's largest public companies by their long-term growth prospects, co-developed with Boston Consulting Group (read more on the ...
Unsettled History. A man-made disaster in eastern Brazil in the late 1970s helped prompt the World Bank to adopt its first systematic protections for people living in the footprint of big projects. Rising waters upstream from the Sobradinho Dam, built with World Bank financing, forced more than 60,000 people from their homes.