Re-estimating the decoupling effect: Is there an actual transition towards a less energy-intensive economy?

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2012.11.033

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“…Additionally, four main decoupling indicators have been developed. The first one is resource consumption intensity (e.g., energy/GDP ratio or energy/GDP per capital), which is the one of the most widely used macroeconomic indicators for estimating decoupling effects [16]; the second one is the decoupling factor introduced by the OECD [9]; the third one is elasticity measured by the ratio of change in the environment indicator to the percentage change in the economic indicator [28]; the last one is the aggregate resource or environmental efficiency [13,29,30].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend

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Abstract:Unprecedented economic achievement in China has occurred along with rising resource consumption and waste productions levels. The goal of sustainability requires the decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption (resource decoupling) and environmental degradation (impact decoupling). For this paper, the performances of resource decoupling (energy and water) and impact decoupling (wastewater, SO 2 and CO 2 ) in China were evaluated, and the spatial pattern and temporal trend of decoupling performance were investigated by using the rescaled range analysis (R/S). The results indicate the following. (1) The performance of resource decoupling during the investigated period is worse than that of traditional impact (SO 2 and wastewater) decoupling, but better than that of the CO 2 emission. Additionally, the decoupling performances of energy consumption and related pollutant emission (except CO 2 ) are better than that of water usage and wastewater discharge; (2) The decoupling performance of energy consumption, SO 2 and CO 2 , has substantially improved from the 10th Five-Year Planning Period (FYP) (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005) to the 11th FYP (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010), which indicates that the decoupling performance is highly related the environmental policy; (3) The spatial disparities of the performance of resource and impact decoupling are declining, which indicates the existence of cross-province convergence in decoupling performance; (4) The decoupling performance of SO 2 and water usage in most of regions shows an improving trend. Inversely, the decoupling performance of energy consumption, CO 2 emission, and wastewater discharge in most regions show a decreasing trend; (5) China needs more stringent water-saving targets and wastewater discharge standards; better policy efforts to improve the water recycling level both in agricultural, industrial and municipal level are required to prevent the decreasing trend of the decoupling performance.

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“…Nowadays, a large amount of research focuses on the decoupling of energy consumption [10,15,16], water usage [17,18], CO 2 emission [19][20][21][22][23][24], and other pollutants production (such as SO 2 , solid waste, wastewater, etc.) [4,6,10,[25][26][27].…”

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The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend

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“…One part of the publications puts the emission into the center, another part focuses on the energy use. There are papers which examine only one country (such as Grand (2016), a country group (such as Wang et al, 2013), and some perform global analysis as well (such as Bithas & Kalimeris, 2013;Csereklyei & Stern, 2015). Not only the national-level analysis, but the sectoral papers (such as Andreoni & Galmarini, 2012) had been produced more frequently.…”

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Delinking of Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in the Visegrad Group

Szlávik¹,

Szép²

2017

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ABSTRACT:In this study two different decoupling indicators are applied to examine the delinking of the energy consumption from economic growth in the Visegrad Four countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) during the period 1990-2015. In the light of these results conclusions are drawn with regard to the impact of decoupling as well (it means decoupling environmental impacts from economic growth) using the ecological footprint and biocapacity data. This paper pays special attention to the years when the economies are in recession. The resulting estimations of decoupling effects are optimistic, these economies achieved absolute or relative decoupling during a significant part of the period considered. However, the time interval 2009-2013 can be interpreted as a structural break, because in these years the decoupling of the examined variables was not detected and only weak negative, strong negative and expansive negative decoupling could be identified It can be stated that decoupling is not a permanent process and after even one and half decades (such as Poland -1994Poland - -2009) the positive tendency can be reversed. The analysis of the ecological footprint shows that examining the energy consumption, not only the resource decoupling but the impact decoupling can be detected as well.

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“…Needless to say, they have been signifi cantly lower in per capita volume to start with. With no precedence for major decoupling of environmental loads from growth (Bithas and Kalimeris, 2013;Kalimeris et al, 2014), it would appear that making people care for the environment comes at the price of further destroying it. A third problem, if the affl uence hypothesis possesses exclusive validity, appears if we attend to those affl uent ones who do claim to be moved by moral concerns in their consumer choices: the well observed gap between such commitments and the propensity to actually follow up on them (Auger and Devinney, 2007).…”

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Rejecting the Post-Political Response to Climate Change: Introducing the European Egalitarian Environmentalist

Krüger¹,

Domazet²,

Dolenec³

2016

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Re-estimating the decoupling effect: Is there an actual transition towards a less energy-intensive economy?

Cited by 71 publications

References 41 publications

The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend

The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend

Delinking of Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in the Visegrad Group

Rejecting the Post-Political Response to Climate Change: Introducing the European Egalitarian Environmentalist

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