Product generational dematerialization indicator: A case of crude oil in the global economy

Ziolkowska, Jadwiga R.; Ziółkowski, Bożydar

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2011.08.029

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“…WCED 1987). These concerns have led many to advocate a shift from a materialistically oriented to a less materialistic worldview (see Ziolkowska and Ziolkowski 2011) or to a new welfare economics of sustainability (i.e. approaches to measure well-being that provide an alternative to equating per capita consumption with welfare; see Gowdy 2005).…”

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Technology improvements and value changes for sustainable happiness: a cross-development analytical model

Zagonari

2015

Sustain Sci

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This paper develops an analytical model to calculate the amount by which individuals are expected to modify their values (the relationship between lifestyle and happiness, as measured by subjective well-being, SWB) and to adopt innovative technologies (to increase the sustainability of production and consumption, measured by the ecological footprint, EF) to allow current and future generations to achieve sustainable happiness (the pursuit of happiness that does not exploit other people, the environment, or future generations). The paper also examines the dependence of these changes on an individual's concern for future generations and on their country's current state of economic development. It is shown that individuals in better-off developed countries and individuals in worse-off developing countries can achieve sustainability with a reasonable level of value change (0-30 %) and a feasible degree of technological innovation (10-40 %), respectively. In contrast, individuals in better-off developing countries and individuals in worse-off developed countries must rely to an impractical degree of technological innovation (50-70 %) and to an unreasonable level of value change (40-70 %), respectively. Finally, individuals in developing countries differ from individuals in developed countries in terms of their potential to achieve sustainable happiness, by achieving sustainability at a low SWB (about 10 % of its maximum) and a high SWB (about 80 % of its maximum), respectively.

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Technology improvements and value changes for sustainable happiness: a cross-development analytical model

Zagonari

2015

Sustain Sci

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“…The first and probably the most important reason is that it allows the capturing of the dynamic effect of consumption and population growth, thus it can be a good indicator of a long term intergenerational behavior. To some extent, as argued by Ziolkowska and Ziolkowski (2011), the PGD can be interpreted as an equivalent of changes in the energy consumption per capita, expressed in relative values. It is also easy to calculate an indicator that does not demand a lot of information, which constitutes an advantage particularly in developing counties where statistical information may be difficult to find.…”

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“…Finally, in order to compare our results to the original paper of Ziolkowska and Ziolkowski (2011), we use Total Primary Energy Supply instead of oil crude consumption. This measure includes the consumption of total primary energy sources (coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro, renewables, etc.).…”

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Are modern economies following a sustainable energy consumption path?

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2014

Energy for Sustainable Development

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“…As for the MSWG, since urban population and demographic trend are the key drivers for urban garbage generation and disposal, the role of population in MSWG decoupling allows the capturing of the dynamic effect of consumption and population growth, provides the relative direction of the change and the scale of the change, and also allows comparing real variations in MSWG and population [35,36]. So, the paper carried out the decoupling analysis of MSWG from population increase by calculating the population (Pop) elasticity of MSWG according to Equation (2):…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Solid Waste Management in China: A Decoupling and Decomposition Analysis

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Abstract:As the largest solid waste (SW) generator in the world, China is facing serious pollution issues induced by increasing quantities of SW. The sustainability assessment of SW management is very important for designing relevant policy for further improving the overall efficiency of solid waste management (SWM). By focusing on industrial solid waste (ISW) and municipal solid waste (MSW), the paper investigated the sustainability performance of SWM by applying decoupling analysis, and further identified the main drivers of SW change in China by adopting Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model. The results indicate that China has made a great achievement in SWM which was specifically expressed as the increase of ISW utilized amount and harmless disposal ratio of MSW, decrease of industrial solid waste discharged (ISWD), and absolute decoupling of ISWD from economic growth as well. However, China has a long way to go to achieve the goal of sustainable management of SW. The weak decoupling, even expansive negative decoupling of ISW generation and MSW disposal suggests that China needs timely technology innovation and rational institutional arrangement to reduce SW intensity from OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 9269 the source and promote classification and recycling. The factors of investment efficiency and technology are the main determinants of the decrease in SW, inversely, economic growth has increased SW discharge. The effects of investment intensity showed a volatile trend over time but eventually decreased SW discharged. Moreover, the factors of population and industrial structure slightly increased SW.

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Product generational dematerialization indicator: A case of crude oil in the global economy

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Technology improvements and value changes for sustainable happiness: a cross-development analytical model

Technology improvements and value changes for sustainable happiness: a cross-development analytical model

Are modern economies following a sustainable energy consumption path?

Sustainability Assessment of Solid Waste Management in China: A Decoupling and Decomposition Analysis

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