Towards sustainable resource management: identification and quantification of human actions that compromise the accessibility of metal resources

Dewulf, Jo; Hellweg, Stefanie; Pfister, Stephan; León, María Fernanda Godoy; Sonderegger, Thomas; Matos, Cristina T.; Blengini, Gian Andrea; Mathieux, Fabrice

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105403

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“…Resourcification is usually pragmatic because it must build on what already exists in terms of available biotic entities, tangible materials, and intangibles factors, such as aesthetics and culture. Uncompromised access is pivotal (Dewulf et al, 2021), for example, to sites of anthropogenic resources such as old landfills, buildings, as well as stocks of accumulated goods (Winterstetter et al, 2021).…”

Section: Modesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All of these elements are distributed in time and space in ways that both capture and contain the dynamic uses and values of resourcification. The unequal spatial repartition of wealth and environmental pressures points to the need to systematically put the global resourcification of nature for developmental purposes in specific spatial and temporal perspectives (e.g., Erdo gan et al, 2021;Luukkanen et al, 2019).…”

Section: Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The origin of a process may spring from a crisis, a situation of scarcity, failing discursive power, or from a situation of abundance or oversupply. The boundless resourcification that led up to the Anthropocene, grounded in anthropocentrism and extractivism, has taken place without consideration of whether natural or non-natural resources are renewable or nonrenewable (e.g., Erdo gan et al, 2021). This has resulted in both potential and actual transgressions of the planet's boundaries (Rockstrom et al, 2009;Steffen et al, 2015).…”

Section: Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development

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Hultman

Jerneck

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Sustainable Development

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Overuse of resources is accelerating current negative trends in climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity loss. The ultimate outcome is that contemporary human society is reaching or exceeding the limits of planetary boundaries. It is therefore imperative to articulate a new theoretical understanding of resources and the ethical, political, and environmental conditions of their use. In this article, we take a radical departure from treating resources as having fixed, essential and ready to exploit qualities, and offer a non-essentialist theory that considers that resources come into being as a result of social processes. We label this approach resourcification. This shift offers a new theoretical platform for developing a postsustainability understanding of the relationships of humans to humans, to other living creatures, and to the physical environment, one that is more suited to meeting the challenges of working with the sustainable development goals in the Anthropocene.

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Section: Modesmentioning

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Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development

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Jerneck

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“…As the study conducted by Sule et al (2020) in Nigeria, shows that some entrepreneurs lacked the practical indigenous knowledge which is crucial to the growth of enterprise. As per the European commission report (2012) and resource management that influences entrepreneurial development (Dewulf et al, 2021).…”

Section: Journal Of Entrepreneurship Management and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, local resources such as human capital, infrastructure, finance and technology and social resources are used for entrepreneurial development, but insufficient provision of these resources may lead to improperly developed entrepreneurship (Ohanu, 2021). Local resources such as raw materials, infrastructure, local workforce, and local finance used as input are key needs now and in the future that contributes to entrepreneurial development (Dewulf et al, 2021).…”

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Assessing the Effect of Endogenous Culture, Local Resources, Eco-Friendly Environment and Modern Strategy Development on Entrepreneurial Development

Gobena

Kant

2022

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Entrepreneurship is currently a global concern as its great contribution and key solutions to the economy by providing more job opportunity, income generation area, the basis for technology transfer and development and non-economic with regard to sustaining political and social activities, increasing intention of equal resource sharing and active participation in economic development is gradually increasing. This significant contribution became challenged with many key determinant factors such as indigenous culture, local resources, eco-friendly environment and modern development strategies directly or indirectly with the power of influencing entrepreneurship development. This paper aims to assess the effect of indigenous culture, local resources, eco-friendly environment and modern development strategies on entrepreneurial development. As the nature of this study is exploratory, extensive review of literature through systematic, clear, and reproducible design for detecting, evaluating, and inferring the existing body of recorded 106 documents from published and unpublished journal articles, international reports and books related to issues was used as a secondary data source. The study pointed out that indigenous culture like indigenous leadership culture, indigenous team working and indigenous skills have a significant effect on entrepreneurial development; local resources such as infrastructure, local human capital and finance limitation, environmental marketing, innovation and distinctive competitive advantage have a significant impact on entrepreneurial development. The study implicates a distinctive gap between eco-friendly environmental theory and the practical application of green products for entrepreneurial development. Further empirical research will be needed for future studies. Finally, the study forwards future concern areas and recommends the value of this work with its limitations.

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Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets

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Loubet

Helbig

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Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose The accessibility to most metals is crucial to modern societies. In order to move towards more sustainable use of metals, it is relevant to reduce losses along their anthropogenic cycle. To this end, quantifying dissipative flows of mineral resources and assessing their impacts in life cycle assessment (LCA) has been a challenge brought up by various stakeholders in the LCA community. We address this challenge with the extension of previously developed impact assessment methods and evaluating how these updated methods compare to widely used impact assessment methods for mineral resource use. Methods Building on previous works, we extend the coverage of the average dissipation rate (ADR) and lost potential service time (LPST) methods to 61 metals. Midpoint characterization factors are computed using dynamic material flow analysis results, and endpoint characterization factors, by applying the market price of metals as a proxy for their value. We apply these methods to metal resource flows from 6000 market data sets along with the abiotic depletion potential and ReCiPe 2016 methods to anticipate how the assessment of dissipation using the newly developed methods might compare to the latter two widely used ones. Results and discussion The updated midpoint methods enable distinguishing between 61 metals based on their global dissipation patterns once they have been extracted from the ground. The endpoint methods further allow differentiating between the value of metals based on their annual average market prices. Metals with a high price that dissipate quickly have the highest endpoint characterization factors. The application study shows that metals with the largest resource flows are expected to have the most impacts with the midpoint ADR and LPST methods, metals that are relatively more expensive have a greater relative contribution to the endpoint assessment. Conclusion The extended ADR and LPST methods provide new information on the global dissipation patterns of 61 metals and on the associated potentially lost value for humans. The methods are readily applicable to resource flows in current life cycle inventories. This new information may be complementary to that provided by other impact assessment methods addressing different impact pathways when used in LCA studies. Additional research is needed to improve the characterization of the value of metals for society and to extend the methods to more resources.

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Towards sustainable resource management: identification and quantification of human actions that compromise the accessibility of metal resources

Cited by 39 publications

References 37 publications

Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development

Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development

Assessing the Effect of Endogenous Culture, Local Resources, Eco-Friendly Environment and Modern Strategy Development on Entrepreneurial Development

Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets

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