Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity (eBook, PDF)

Economic and Global Policy Issues
Redaktion: Bleischwitz, Raimund; Zhang, Zhongxiang; Welfens, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents an overview of global issues of raw materials supply and resource use. This book also introduces views and perspectives on the sustainable growth of emerging economies and develops a rationale for resource economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351279192
• Artikelnr.: 49377874

Autorenporträt

Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul Welfens, ZhongXiang Zhang

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Raimund Bleischwitz
Wuppertal Institute
Germany
Paul J.J. Welfens
European Institute for International Economic Relations
Wuppertal (EIIW) and University of Wuppertal
Germany
and ZhongXiang Zhang
East-West Center
Honolulu
USA Part I: Raw materials supply and resource use from a global perspective1. Will the mining industry meet global need for metals? Magnus Ericsson
Raw Materials Group (RMG)
Stockholm
Sweden 2. Global resource use in a business-as-usual world up to 2030: Updated results from the GINFORS model Christian Lutz
Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung (GWS)
Osnabrück
Germany
and Stefan Giljum
Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI)
Vienna
Austria 3. Development and growth in mineral-rich countries Thorvaldur Gylfason
University of Iceland
CEPR
and CESifo
Iceland 4. The physical dimension of international trade 1962-2005: Empirical findings and tentative conclusions Monika Dittrich
University of Cologne and Wuppertal Institute
Germany 5. Defining critical materials Thomas E. Graedel
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
USA Part II: The economics of resources and sustainable growth6. Explaining oil price dynamics Paul J.J. Welfens
European Institute for International Economic Relations
Wuppertal (EIIW) and University of Wuppertal
Germany 7. Technological catch-up or resource rents? A production frontier approach to growth accounting Natalia Merkina
Department of Economics
University of Oslo
Norway 8. Socio-ecological market economy in Europe: Interrelations between resource
labour and capital productivity Erich Hoedl
European Academy of Science and Arts
Austria 9. Why do companies ignore economic efficiency potentials? The need for public efficiency awareness Mario Schmidt
Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
Germany Part III: Empirical analysis of resource productivity: Trends and drivers10. Decoupling GDP from resource use
resource productivity and competitiveness: a cross-country comparison Sören Steger and Raimund Bleischwitz
Wuppertal Institute
Germany 11. Anxiety and technological change: Explaining the decline of sulphur dioxide emissions in Finland since 1950 Jan Kunnas
European University Institute
Italy
and Timo Myllyntaus
University of Turku
Turun yliopisto
Finland 12. Greece's fossil fuel use in 2006: A production
consumption and supply-chain analysis Eleni Papathanasopoulou
Sustainable Solutions Greece Part IV: Global policy issues13. China and India's global demand for resources: Drawing some key implications on international energy security and Africa's development Jennifer Li
Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability
Falls Church (VA) and US Environmental Protection Agency
Washington
DC 14. Asian energy and environmental policy: Promoting growth while preserving the environment ZhongXiang Zhang
East-West Center
Honolulu
USA 15. The rationale for and economic implications of dematerialisation Paul Ekins
King's College
London
UK Conclusions: Towards a new resource economics Raimund Bleischwitz
Wuppertal Institute
Germany
Paul J.J. Welfens
European Institute for International Economic Relations
Wuppertal (EIIW) and University of Wuppertal
Germany
and ZhongXiang Zhang
East-West Center
Honolulu
USA