International Economics Of Resource Efficiency

Author : Raimund Bleischwitz,Paul J.J. Welfens,ZhongXiang Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790826012

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International Economics of Resource Efficiency by Raimund Bleischwitz,Paul J.J. Welfens,ZhongXiang Zhang Pdf

Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. Focussing on economics, sustainability, technology and policy, the book highlights system innovation, leapfrogging strategies of emerging economies, possible rebound effects and international market development. It puts natural resources centre stage and will make an important contribution to achieving the goal of a 21st century Green Economy.

Author : Florian Flachenecker,Jun Rentschler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319788678

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Investing in Resource Efficiency by Florian Flachenecker,Jun Rentschler Pdf

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of resource efficiency in reconciling environmental and economic considerations. It also discusses the critical role of resource efficiency investments in mitigating climate change and enabling sustainable development. Featuring expert insights from academia, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, this book provides a policy oriented guide, reference, and toolbox for unlocking the potential of resource efficiency. To this end, it identifies practical measures for overcoming barriers and creating smart incentives for leveraging resource efficiency investments. Overall, this book brings together evidence to develop innovative ideas and strategies for improving the efficient use of resources and advancing clean and sustainable development. "This book is an important and timely contribution", Angel Gurria, Secretary General, OECD

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264257344

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Policy Guidance on Resource Efficiency by OECD Pdf

This report responds to the request by G7 Leaders at the Schloss Elmau Summit in June 2015, for the OECD to develop policy guidance on resource efficiency.

Author : John M. Polimeni,Kozo Mayumi,Mario Giampietro,Blake Alcott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317705253

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The Myth of Resource Efficiency by John M. Polimeni,Kozo Mayumi,Mario Giampietro,Blake Alcott Pdf

'The Jevons Paradox', which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil fuels, but other resource use scenarios. For example, doubling the efficiency of food production per hectare over the last 50 years (due to the Green Revolution) did not solve the problem of hunger. The increase in efficiency increased production and worsened hunger because of the resulting increase in population. The implications of this in today's world are substantial. Many scientists and policymakers argue that future technological innovations will reduce consumption of resources; the Jevons Paradox explains why this may be a false hope. This is the first book to provide a historical overview of the Jevons Paradox, provide evidence for its existence and apply it to complex systems. Written and edited by world experts in the fields of economics, ecological economics, technology and the environment, it explains the myth of efficiency and explores its implications for resource usage (particularly oil). It is a must-read for policymakers, natural resource managers, academics and students concerned with the effects of efficiency on resource use.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210602433

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Resource Efficiency by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Pdf

This report documents many examples of best practices for increasing the resource efficiency of different sectors from countries around the world. Key findings show that policies and initiatives to improve resource efficiency and tackle climate change can reduce global resource extraction by up to 28 per cent globally in 2050, against the baseline. In addition to slower growth in resource extraction, such policy actions can also cut global greenhouse gas emissions by around 60 per cent, while also boosting the value of world economic activity by 1 per cent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781136553363

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The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements by Anonim Pdf

Author : James West
Publisher : UN
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105221404341

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Resource Efficiency by James West Pdf

This report provides more detailed data and analysis, specific to China, over the report provided in 2011 on Asia and the Pacific (UNEP 2011). It can be thought of as a single country focus version of that report, and so the structure is broadly similar. For most sections the base data used is simply the China specific data assembled for the production of (UNEP 2011), and so covers the same time period of 1970 to 2005. The exception is the material flows data, which has had a major update and revision performed. The time series for material flows data has been extended to cover 1970 to 2008.

Author : Paul Ekins,Nick Hughes
Publisher : UN
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCLA:L0109123497

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Resource Efficiency by Paul Ekins,Nick Hughes Pdf

Despite enormous progress in the past decades towards improving human prosperity and well-being, this has come at the lasting cost of degradation of the natural environment and depletion of natural resources. Meeting the needs of a growing and increasingly affluent population, will require natural resource extraction to increase from 85 to 186 billion tons by 2050. This can cause irreversible environmental damage and endanger the capacity of Earth to continue to provide resources which are essential for human survival and development. Analysis in the report shows that policies and initiatives to improve resource efficiency and tackle climate change can reduce global resource extraction by up to 28 per cent while also boosting the value of world economic activity by 1 per cent in 2050, against the baseline. Such policy actions can also cut global greenhouse gas emissions by around 60 per cent in 2050 relative to 2015 levels. This report has been produced by the UNEP's International Resource Panel in response to a request by leaders of the G7 nations in the context of efforts to promote resource efficiency as a core element of sustainable development. The report conducts a rigorous survey to assess and articulate the prospects and solutions for resource efficiency. It considers how more efficient use of resources can contribute to economic growth, employment and development, at the same time as reducing the world's use of materials, energy, biomass and water, and the resulting environmental impacts. The report documents many examples of best practices for increasing the resource efficiency of different sectors from countries around the world. The challenge for policy-makers is to learn from and scale up these good practices, and to conceive and implement a set of transformative policies that will enable countries to reap the associated social, environmental and economic benefits.

Author : Bruce Lankford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134079384

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Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons by Bruce Lankford Pdf

The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture. The author proposes a novel concept of "the paracommons", through which the savings of increased resource efficiency can be viewed. In effect he asks; "who gets the gain of an efficiency gain?" By reusing, economising and avoiding losses, wastes and wastages, freed up resources are available for further use by four ‘destinations’; the same user, parties directly connected to that user, the wider economy or returned to the common pool. The paracommons is thus a commons of – and competition for – resources salvaged by changes to the efficiency of natural resource systems. The idea can be applied to a range of resources such as water, energy, forests and high-seas fisheries. Five issues are explored: the complexity of resource use efficiency; the uncertainty of efficiency interventions and outcomes; destinations of freed up losses, wastes and wastages; implications for resource conservation; and the interconnectedness of users and systems brought about by efficiency changes. The book shows how these ideas put efficiency on a par with other dimensions of resource governance and sustainability such as equity, justice, resilience and access.

Author : John M. Polimeni,Kozo Mayumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1138866954

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The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements by John M. Polimeni,Kozo Mayumi Pdf

The Jevons Paradox, which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil fuels, but other resource use scenarios. For example, doubling the efficiency of food production per hectare over the last 50 years (due to the Green Revolution) did not solve the problem of hunger. The increase in efficiency increased production and worsened hunger because of the resulting increase in population. The implications of this in todays world are substantial. Many scientists and policymakers argue that future technological innovations will reduce consumption of resources; the Jevons Paradox explains why this may be a false hope. This is the first book to provide a historical overview of the Jevons Paradox, provide evidence for its existence and apply it to complex systems. Written and edited by world experts in the fields of economics, ecological economics, technology and the environment, it explains the myth of efficiency and explores its implications for resource usage (particularly oil). It is a must-read for policymakers, natural resource managers, academics and students concerned with the effects of efficiency on resource use.

Author : P. Dimitratos,M. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230278028

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Resources, Efficiency and Globalization by P. Dimitratos,M. Jones Pdf

International business for the modern firm has to compromise the need to use limited resources and achieve efficiency in the global marketplace. This book examines these issues from the viewpoint of the internationalized SME, the big multinational and the local subsidiary drawing on research conducted in different countries.

Author : Rob Weterings,Ton Bastein,Arnold Tukker,Michel Rademaker,Marjolein de Ridder
Publisher : The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789089645296

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Resources for our Future by Rob Weterings,Ton Bastein,Arnold Tukker,Michel Rademaker,Marjolein de Ridder Pdf

Natural resources, including minerals, water, energy and arable land, are the basis of human society. Throughout the 20th century, the growing population has led to an increase in the use of fossil fuels by a factor of 12, and to the extraction of 34 times more material resources. As a consequence, Earth’s climate is changing, fish stocks and forests are shrinking, the prices of energy resources and critical materials are rising, and species are becoming extinct. If the population grows as expected and the mean per capita consumption doubles by the year 2050, it is most probable that humanity will experience the limits to growth.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264307452

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Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060 Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences by OECD Pdf

This report presents global projections of materials use and their environmental consequences, providing a quantitative outlook to 2060 at the global, sectoral and regional levels for 61 different materials (biomass resources, fossil fuels, metals and non-metallic minerals). It explains the ...

Author : Sigrun Kabisch,Florian Koch,Erik Gawel,Annegret Haase,Sonja Knapp,Kerstin Krellenberg,Jaime Nivala,Andreas Zehnsdorf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319593241

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Urban Transformations by Sigrun Kabisch,Florian Koch,Erik Gawel,Annegret Haase,Sonja Knapp,Kerstin Krellenberg,Jaime Nivala,Andreas Zehnsdorf Pdf

The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single cases and different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210602273

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International Trade in Resources by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Pdf

Tasked with building and sharing knowledge on how to improve management of the world’s resources, UNEP’s International Resource Panel (IRP) turns its attention to the world trading system and its implications for global resource efficiency. In this report entitled ‘‘International Trade in Resources: A biophysical assessment’’, the IRP examines how efficient the current system of world trade is in distributing resources from the geographical locations of supply to the locations of demand. By examining trade from a biophysical (versus an economic) viewpoint, the authors of the report seek to assess whether or not trade allows commodities to be obtained from countries where their production requires fewer resources and generates a smaller amount of wastes and emissions.