Driving factors of material consumption in European countries – spatial panel data analysis

Telega, Ivan; Telega, Agnieszka

doi:10.1080/21606544.2019.1675186

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“…However, most of these valuable resources eventually end up as waste materials. Hence, global waste management should be implemented to develop an economic material use model to stop the waste of materials and consuming them wisely (Baldé et al 2017;Rezvani Ghomi et al 2020b;Shanmugam et al 2020;Telega and Telega 2020). Developing a circular economy system (CES) provides sufficient management in handling the life cycle of raw materials and enables economic development which is lucrative for society, businesses, and the environment.…”

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Circular Economy: a Comparison Between the Case of Singapore and France

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Nowadays, due to the continuous developments in economies, various dilemmas are emerging, including energy demand, waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions (GHE). A promising approach to address these issues is a transition toward a circular economy (CE), and one of its successful approaches is the waste-to-energy (WTE). By exploiting WTE, there will be less demand for raw materials and resources. In this study, two developed countries, including France and Singapore, are evaluated based on their CE transition using the WTE method. Both countries are developing rapidly in terms of a successful CE. Reducing landfills as the major problem in Singapore is one of the most vital plans in their CE project. The planned target in Singapore is reducing landfill by 30% by 2030. Furthermore, Singapore aims for reaching a 70% recycling rate by 2050. On the other hand, the CE in France includes more comprehensive laws in four different sectors, such as production, consumption, waste management, and mobilizing actors. It is planned that by 2025, the recycling rate in France will reach 100%. A roadmap toward building a CE cannot be succeeded unless some practical strategies are developed for overcoming the encountered obstacles. The roadmap of both countries shows a specific milestone to reach a better CE, cleaner environment, and less use of natural resources. Most of the Singapore sustainable plans are planned to be caught by 2030, while France is trying to complete them by 2025. It should be noted that due to the current pandemic situation caused by COVID-19, there are some issues in implementing the obligations and plans thoroughly.

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“…The share of extraction of the Asia-Pacific OECD region is the same as the share of consumption. Telega and Telega [6] categorized five drivers of DMC: topography, climate, demography (including population density), and flow of infrastructure investments, as well as structural, technology, and institution (including behavioral and lifestyle factors) changes. Also, the strong relationship between construction, infrastructure, investment, and economic growth causes increase in material use [7].…”

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Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) elaborately encompass a global goal for sustainable consumption and production (Goal 12: SDGs), thus providing potential drivers and/or pathways to attaining sustainable consumption. In view of this global goal, this study examined the role of real income per capita, urbanization and especially inbound tourism in domestic material consumption for the panel of OECD countries. The study is conducted for the period of 1995 to 2016 by employing the panel quantile approach. Interestingly, an inverted U-shaped relationship between outbound tourism and domestic material consumption is established across the quantiles, thus indicating that sustainable domestic consumption is achievable after a threshold of domestic material consumption is attained. In addition, achieving sustainable consumption through economic or income growth is a herculean task for the OECD countries because the current reality indicates that income growth triggers higher consumption of domestic materials. However, the results suggest that urbanization is a recipe for sustainable domestic consumption since there is a negative and significant relationship between the two parameters across the quantiles. Nevertheless, the study presents relevant policy for efficient material and resources utilization and that is suitable to drive the SDGs for 2030 and other country-specific sustainable ambitions.

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“…Studies on decoupling economic growth from resource use are conducted at various levels: global [8,[16][17][18][19], regional (e.g., European Union countries [20,21], OECD countries [12], or BRICS countries [12], 39 countries [22]), or national [23][24][25][26][27]. Some attention is devoted to fossil fuel-exporting countries [28], or consider the resources curse in this context [29].…”

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“…In most studies, the domestic material consumption indicator is used as a measure of the materials used ( [12,[19][20][21][22][23]). However, only some studies take into account outsourcing of the production and trade in raw materials (i.e., the material footprint) in measuring the amount of materials used in the economy ( [7,8,12,18,30,31]).…”

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“…In order to investigate the process of decoupling, a considerable number of studies apply descriptive trend analyses ( [8,18,32]), while others use econometric techniques (e.g., panel data analysis [21,22]) or other statistical methods (decoupling indicator derived from the IPAT (impact on the environment (I) = population (P), affluence (A) and technology (T)) equation [12,23]).…”

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Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuel Use—Evidence from 141 Countries in the 25-Year Perspective

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This study offers an in-depth analysis of the decoupling of economic growth from fossil fuel use in 141 countries over the last 25 years. The study is based on the Tapio decoupling approach, and two methods of measuring fossil fuel use, i.e., domestic material consumption (DMC) and material footprint (MF), are applied. Groups of countries with similar decoupling patterns are identified through the k-medoids method. Next, the relationship between these patterns and the level of countries’ development is examined. The results reveal that using different measures of fossil fuel use yields different processes of decoupling economic growth from fossil fuel use. In particular, when the DMC indicator is considered, relative decoupling is observed in most analysed cases. When the MF indicator is applied, the decoupling states of individual countries change more frequently. Finally, in highly developed countries, absolute decoupling is frequently observed, although only when the DMC indicator is used.

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Driving factors of material consumption in European countries – spatial panel data analysis

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

Circular Economy: a Comparison Between the Case of Singapore and France

Circular Economy: a Comparison Between the Case of Singapore and France

Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach

Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuel Use—Evidence from 141 Countries in the 25-Year Perspective

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