International Economics of Resource Efficiency: Eco-Innovation Policies for a Green Economy

✍ Scribed by Lucas Bretschger (auth.), Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul J.J. Welfens, ZhongXiang Zhang (eds.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 409
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainability Economics, Resource Efficiency, and the Green New Deal....Pages 3-17
Global Economic Sustainability Indicator: Analysis and Policy Options for the Copenhagen Process....Pages 19-50
System Innovation for Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Policies and Political Economy....Pages 51-88
The Resources of Economies and the Productivity of Materials: Relevance, Measurement, Empirical Trends, Innovation, Resource Policies....Pages 89-109
The Economics of Current Metal Markets....Pages 111-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Competences for Green Development and Leapfrogging: The Case of Newly Industrializing Countries....Pages 127-150
The US Proposed Carbon Tariffs, WTO Scrutiny and China’s Responses....Pages 151-174
Plan C: China’s Development Under the Scarcity of Natural Capital....Pages 175-186
The Dutch Energy Transition Approach....Pages 187-213
Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability....Pages 215-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Price and Income Induced Rebound Effects of Improved Energy Efficiency in Swedish Households: With Comments on Materials Efficiency....Pages 235-251
Analyzing Rebound Effects....Pages 253-278
How to Reduce the Rebound Effect?....Pages 279-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Multi-agent Modeling of Economic Innovation Dynamics and Its Implications for Analyzing Emission Impacts....Pages 289-315
How to Increase Global Resource Productivity? Findings from Modelling in the PetrE Project....Pages 317-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Identification of Technologies, Products and Strategies with High Resource Efficiency Potential: Results of a Cooperative Selection Process....Pages 335-347
Optimizing Resource Efficiency and Carbon Intensity in the Wood Processing Sector in Austria....Pages 349-355
Sustainable Resource Management in the Production Chain of Precious and Special Metals....Pages 357-369
Eco-Innovation for Enabling Resource Efficiency and Green Growth: Development of an Analytical Framework and Preliminary Analysis of Industry and Policy Practices....Pages 371-394

✦ Subjects

International Economics; Sustainable Development; Economic Policy; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics; R & D/Technology Policy; Economic Geography