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Sustainable growth and resource productivity : economic and global policy issues
- Title
- Sustainable growth and resource productivity : economic and global policy issues / edited by Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul J.J. Welfens and ZhongXiang Zhang.
- Publication
- Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf, ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HC79.E5 S87 2009 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 360 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- Natural resources > Management
- Industrial efficiency > Environmental aspects
- Sustainable development > International cooperation
- Efficacité
- Utilisation des ressources
- Développement durable
- Gestion des ressources
- Produits de base
- Ressources naturelles
- Productivité
- Croissance économique
- Economie de l'environnement
- Nachhaltigkeit
- Produktivitätszuwachs
- Ressourcenökonomie
- Umweltpolitik
- Wirtschaftswachstum
- Globalisierung
- Naturresurser
- Hållbar utveckling > internationellt samarbete
- Miljöekonomi
- Rohstoffressourcen
- Ressourcenökonomik
- Produktivität
- Nachhaltige Entwicklung
- Globalisierung
- Welt
- Monde
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. I: -- RAW MATERIALS SUPPLY AND RESOURCE USE FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1 Will the mining industry meet the global need for metals? / Magnus Ericsson -- 2 Global resource use in a business-as-usual world up to 2030 : updated results from the GINFORS model / Christian Lutz and Stefan Giljum -- 3 Development and growth in mineral-rich countries / Thorvaldur Gylfason -- 4 The physical dimension of international trade, 1962-2005 : empirical findings and tentative conclusions / Monika Dittrich -- 5 Defining critical materials / Thomas E. Graedel -- pt. II: -- THE ECONOMICS OF RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH -- 6 Explaining oil price dynamics / Paul J.J. Welfens -- 7 Technological catch-up or resource rents? : a production frontier approach to growth accounting / Natalia Merkina -- 8 Socio-ecological market economy in London : interrelations between resource, labour and capital productivity / Erich Hoedl -- 9 Why do companies ignore economic efficiency potentials? : the need for public efficiency awareness / Mario Schmidt -- pt. III -- EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY : TRENDS AND DRIVERS -- 10 Decoupling GDP from resource use, resource productivity and competitiveness : a cross-country comparison / Sören Steger and Raimund Bleischwitz -- 11 Anxiety and technological change : explaining the decline of sulphur dioxide emissions in Finland since 1950 / Jan Kunnas and Tim Myllyntaus -- 12 Greece's fossil fuel use in 2006 : a production, consumption and supply-chain analysis / Eleni Papthanasopoulou -- pt. IV: GLOBAL POLICY ISSUES -- 13 China and India's global demand for resources : key inferences on international energy security and Africa's development / Jennifer Li -- 14 Asian energy and environmental policy : promoting growth while preserving the environment / Zhongxiang Zhang -- 15 The rationale for and economic implications of dematerialisation / Paul Ekins -- Conclusions : towards a new resource economics / Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul J.J. Welfens and Zhongxiang Zhang.
- ISBN
- 9781906093280
- 1906093288
- LCCN
- 2013427542
- OCLC
- ocn436268108
- 436268108
- SCSB-14260162
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library