Making sustainability work

Binswanger, Hans Christoph

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“…Employees can gain numerous benefits in the form of greater engagement in discretionary work behaviors and improved job attitudes. This, in turn, directly translates into general job and life satisfaction (Supanti and Butcher 2019;Binswanger 1998). This issue has become extremely important in the case in which sustainable development is understood as a healthy workforce, non-exploitation and all ethical issues related to work, decent wages and employment (Feng and Saini 2015;Vance and Paik 2015;Virakul et al 2009).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transitioning to Sustainable Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

2023

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in Rzeszow (building engineering), the University of Rzeszow in Rzeszow (sociology), and doctoral studies at University of Physical Education in Warsaw (physical culture sciences). Since 2005, he has worked as a Professor at the University of Rzeszow and was appointed Head of Chair of the Socio-Cultural Foundation for Physical Education and Sports. He has published over 800 scientific works, including 20 books (monographs and manuals). His major scientific interests concern sociology (of culture, tourism and sport), coaching and pedagogy, and martial arts.

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“…To counter this objection, the functional model normally assumes that in all cases better technology will lower the need of energy. Unfortunately, this point has never been demonstrated, except in terms of generic claims on human ingenuity (see e.g., Simon, 1981;Bradley, 2004).…”

Section: Mineral Extraction and The Economymentioning

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“…So, we have no direct evidence that the h factor actually exists, nor that it can be equated to "technological progress." Indeed, it has been shown that if the increasing use of energy in the world system is factored into the production function, then there is no need of the abstract entity called TFP to justify the growth of mineral production in the world (Hall et al, 2001;Ayres, 2007;Warr and Ayres, 2010;Ayres and Voudouris, 2013); see also the criticism by Binswanger (1998) and Bastianoni et al (2009). Without energy and natural resources, there cannot be growth and technology, alone, cannot create resources that don't exist (Daly, 1997).…”

Section: Mineral Extraction and The Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One emphasizes the limited amount of the available mineral resources and proposes that depletion will lead to a reduction of the supply in times short enough to be object of concern today (see e.g., Jevons, 1866;Meadows et al, 1972;Bardi and Pagani, 2007;Bardi, 2011;Mason et al, 2011). The other emphasizes technology and human ingenuity, arguing that depletion is not a fundamental problem, at least for the foreseeable future (see e.g., Zimmermann, 1933;Lambert, 2001;Bradley, 2004Bradley, , 2007. In this second camp, some authors arrived to extremely optimistic statements; proposing that mineral resources will never be exhausted or will last billions of years (Simon, 1981).…”

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The Mineral Question: How Energy and Technology Will Determine the Future of Mining

Bardi

2013

Front. Energy Res.

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Almost 150 years after that Jevons (1866) published his paper "The Coal Question" a debate on mineral depletion has been ongoing between two main schools of thought: one that sees depletion as an important problem for the near future and another that sees technology and human ingenuity as making depletion only a problem for the remote future. Today, however, we have created intellectual tools that permit us to frame the problem on the basis of physical factors, in particular on the basis of thermodynamics. The present paper examines the problem of mineral depletion from a broad viewpoint, with a specific view on the role of energy in the mining and production processes.The conclusion is that energy is a fundamental factor in determining how long we can expect the supply of mineral resources to last at the present prices and production levels. The rapid depletion of our main energy resources, fossil fuels, is creating a serious supply problem that is already being felt in terms of high prices of all mineral commodities. Technology can mitigate the problem, but not solve it. In a non-remote future, the world's industrial system will have to undergo fundamental changes in order to adapt to a reduced supply of mineral commodities. BardiThe mineral question: how energy and technology will determine the future of mining Frontiers in Energy Research | Energy Systems and PolicyDecember 2013 | Volume 1 | Article 9 | 2 BardiThe mineral question: how energy and technology will determine the future of mining The mineral question: how energy and technology will determine the future of mining. Front. Energy Res. 1:9.

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Thresholds in concave renewable resource models

Wirl

2004

Ecological Economics

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Making sustainability work

Cited by 9 publications

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Transitioning to Sustainable Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Transitioning to Sustainable Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

The Mineral Question: How Energy and Technology Will Determine the Future of Mining

Thresholds in concave renewable resource models

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