Biophysical Triggers of Crisis Convergence in Africa

Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq

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“…We demonstrate that the most important driver for future HANPP harv is the amount of biomass extracted for food. This result meets the future trend suggested by other food and wood demand studies: food demand increases sharply and wood demand grows slowly or even decreases by the middle of this century. , There is rising concerns on the limited availability of crude oil by 2050 . According to our results, the energy oriented from a secondary biomass resources could play a vital role in global energy supplies in the future, although the primary fuelwood demand may not increase accordingly.…”

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Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production and Associated Resource Decoupling: 2010–2050

Zhou

Elshkaki

Graedel

2018

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) methodology has previously been developed to assess the intensity of anthropogenic extraction of biomass resources. However, there is limited analysis concerning future trends of HANPP. Here we present four scenarios for global biomass demand and HANPP (the most key component of HANPP) from 2010 to 2050 by incorporating data on expanded historical drivers and disaggregated biomass demand (food, wood material, and fuelwood). The results show that the biomass demand has the lowest value in the equitability world scenario (an egalitarian vision) and the highest value in the security foremost scenario (an isolationist vision). The biomass demand for food and materials increases over time, while fuelwood demand decreases over time. Global HANPP rises to between 8.5 and 10.1 Pg C/yr in 2050 in the four scenarios, 14-35% above its value in 2010, and some 50% of HANPP is calculated to be crop residues, wood residues, and food losses in the future. HANPP in developing regions (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) increases faster than that in more-developed regions (North America and Europe), due to urbanization, population growth, and increasing income. Decoupling of HANPP and socioeconomic development is also discussed in this work.

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Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production and Associated Resource Decoupling: 2010–2050

Zhou

Elshkaki

Graedel

2018

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…This vulnerability underlies our vision for a bigger and bolder SDG premised on post-capitalism. One that can push sustainable consumption behaviours (and supporting production and marketing systems) beyond the safe parameters of neoliberal market ideology, which is purported to be failing (Ahmed 2017). Such an SDG would embrace a transformative post-capitalism vista of people power sited at the fringes, or outside market fundamentalism and state-run political authority.…”

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Critiquing a Utopian Idea of Sustainable Consumption: A Post-Capitalism Perspective

Dermody

Koenig‐Lewis

Zhao

et al. 2021

Journal of Macromarketing

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This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how the post-capitalism notions of radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research.

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Biophysical Triggers of Crisis Convergence in Africa

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Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production and Associated Resource Decoupling: 2010–2050

Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production and Associated Resource Decoupling: 2010–2050

Critiquing a Utopian Idea of Sustainable Consumption: A Post-Capitalism Perspective

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