Resource use and economic development: an exergy perspective on energy and material flows and stocks from 1900 to 2010

Carmona, Luis Gabriel; Whiting, Kai; Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Krausmann, Fridolin; Sousa, Tânia

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105226

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“…Energy plays a fundamental role in improving the standard of living and economic development of any country or nation (Callegari et al, 2020). Energy worked as a vital building block for developing countries' economic and social development (Carmona et al, 2021). It saves an average of USD 214,406 (PRs,37.925) million per month in different terms such as liquefied petroleum gas, wood, kerosene oil, and bio fertilizer (Arshad et al, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating Barriers on Biogas Technology Adoption in China: The Moderating Role of Awareness and Technology Understanding

Ali

Qin

Irfan

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Biogas technology adoption is a challenge in developing countries like China. The primary objective of this study was to explore the major issues for farmers in adopting biogas plants. The sample size was identified through the snowball sampling method. A total of 51 respondents of biogas plant adopters participated in this study. The structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data through respondents. The formulated suppositions were assessed by partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicated that all independent variables are significant and positively correlated with adopting biogas technology, reducing energy crises, and attaining cost-saving purposes. The results further indicated that the low cost and clear policy positively and significantly attract farmers to adopt biogas plants. The selected variables and their adopted moderation have a significant and positive impact on this conceptual model. The findings further indicate that major maintenance and day-to-day operations of biogas plants are expensive due to a lack of skilled operators, untrained or partially trained owners, and the unavailability of technicians. The results suggested that the government needs to plan a clear policy, provide short operation courses and technical support with skilled technicians to biogas plant owners, and launch a media campaign about maintenance to develop biogas plants.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating Barriers on Biogas Technology Adoption in China: The Moderating Role of Awareness and Technology Understanding

Ali

Qin

Irfan

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Environmental impacts: A significant part of the literature addressed the ecological implications of material flows and stocks. Many studies examined the correlation between GHG emissions and material stocks [46,[75][76][77][78][79][80], while others estimated wood-based materials or "carbon stock" [81][82][83], and there was also an interest in analyzing energy use retrospectively [20,[84][85][86] and estimating future energy demand [87][88][89][90][91][92]. In short, this part of the literature is significant because it presents various scenarios that demonstrate the magnitude of environmental harm that can be averted [52,93], especially in the context of renovation activities and retrofits that extend the life of building stock rather than end it [94][95][96].…”

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confidence: 99%

Mining the Built Environment: Telling the Story of Urban Mining

Fahid

Dombi

2021

Buildings

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Materials are continuously accumulating in the human-built environment since massive amounts of materials are required for building, developing, and maintaining cities. At the end of their life cycles, these materials are considered valuable sources of secondary materials. The increasing construction and demolition waste released from aging stock each year make up the heaviest, most voluminous waste outflow, presenting challenges and opportunities. These material stocks should be utilized and exploited since the reuse and recycling of construction materials would positively impact the natural environment and resource efficiency, leading to sustainable cities within a grander scheme of a circular economy. The exploitation of material stock is known as urban mining. In order to make these materials accessible for future mining, material quantities need to be estimated and extrapolated to regional levels. This demanding task requires a vast knowledge of the existing building stock, which can only be obtained through labor-intensive, time-consuming methodologies or new technologies, such as building information modeling (BIM), geographic information systems (GISs), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. This review paper gives a general overview of the literature body and tracks the evolution of this research field.

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“…The link between resources and economy (R-E link) is commonly evaluated by the total and per capita amounts of resources used in economic growth and the so-called Material Intensity (MI), namely the amount of resources required per unit of GDP [1,2]. Remarkably, these trends follow drastically different trajectories which mark an increasing divergence over the years [3,4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coupling versus Decoupling? Challenging Evidence over the Link between Economic Growth and Resource Use

Bithas

Kalimeris

2022

Sustainability

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With the UN indicating that climate objectives are well off track, the dependency of the economy on resources remains a crucial issue demanding holistic consideration. As a key global sustainability issue, the linkage between resource use and economic growth has long been under heated debate. The increasing amount of resources used for economic growth has elevated environmentalists’ concerns over resource scarcity and environmental impacts, suggesting the existence of coupling between resources and the economy. In contrast, the declining Material Intensity (MI)—resources needed to produce one unit of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—has led to optimism for many economists and decision makers with far reaching implications for resources and economic policies. Through novel divergence indicators by using long-term datasets, we find that there has been increasing divergence between total and per capita resources use and MI at both the global and the national level. This increasing divergence is due to the faster growth in the total and per capita amount of resources rather than the reduction in the amount of resources per unit of GDP (MI). These divergences indicate underappreciated challenges and opportunities for sustainable economic growth, resource management and implementation of circular economy policies.

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Resource use and economic development: an exergy perspective on energy and material flows and stocks from 1900 to 2010

Cited by 25 publications

References 78 publications

Evaluating Barriers on Biogas Technology Adoption in China: The Moderating Role of Awareness and Technology Understanding

Evaluating Barriers on Biogas Technology Adoption in China: The Moderating Role of Awareness and Technology Understanding

Mining the Built Environment: Telling the Story of Urban Mining

Coupling versus Decoupling? Challenging Evidence over the Link between Economic Growth and Resource Use

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