Trends of natural resource footprints in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries

Wu, Rui; Geng, Yong; Liu, Wenjing

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.130

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“…the development of energy intensity (Löschel et al [2015b]), material use 1 Figure 1 applies also to earlier stages of the value chain. (Pothen and Schymura [2015]), natural resource footprints (Wu et al [2016]) or the impacts of international trade and structural change on the environment ).…”

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Energy costs in Germany and Europe: An assessment based on a (total real unit) energy cost accounting framework

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractAffordable energy is one of the objectives of EU's energy policy. This goal has been challenged by many factors influencing energy prices and costs such as developments in global energy markets, the EU ETS and the promotion of renewables. Analysing energy costs (prices times quantity) instead of prices has the advantage of taking into account quantity adjustments. However, it does not allow for monitoring the burden which energy costs pose on firms. For this purpose, both the European Commission and the Energy Expert Commission of the German Government recommend using real unit energy costs, defined as energy costs as fraction of value added. We develop an input-output based (real unit) energy cost accounting framework and study the trends in Germany and the EU between 1995 and 2011. We find that many of the unveiled developments are not adequately represented in the political debate, especially with regard to indirect costs (via energy embodied in intermediate inputs), which are more difficult to assess. Indirect energy costs are on the rise, are larger than direct costs in many industries, are increasingly imported and amplify the asymmetric impacts of legal exceptions available to energy-intensive industries. JEL ClassificationO14, Q48

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“…According to Giljum et al, today, the human population extract and use around 50% more natural resources than when compared to 30 years ago and use approximately 60 billion tons of raw materials annually [2]. It is already proved that deforestation, water shortage and climate change are the consequences of the consumption of natural resources in the developed world and emerging countries [5]. Current studies predict, complement and elaborate on the growth of population and demand for agricultural products to be 70-100% until 2050 [6], while causing a negative impact on food security and environment issues such as the growth of Green House Gases (GHG) emissions, degradation of ecosystems, biodiversity loss and etc.…”

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The Framework of the Principles of Sustainable Urban Ecosystems Development and Functioning

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2020

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Nowadays, the increasing rate of human population in urban areas and the importance of urban functions pose a number of ecological cross-boundary challenges. The scientific research of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries revealed dramatic consequences of human intervention into natural ecosystems. The outcome of inadequate consumerism, which promotes industrial growth, and the pursuit of a better life is not only damaging to the natural ecosystems, but will eventually lead the World to dramatic climate change outcomes. Therefore, scientists are looking for ways for sustainable urban transformation without endangering the human population and the environment. According to the identified assumptions, the article investigates the principles of sustainable urban ecosystems. The authors consistently seek to explain the concept of sustainable urban ecosystems in both a broad and narrow sense, focusing on the individual constructs of this term—sustainability, city and ecosystems. The theories and approaches of urbanization and ecosystems are also analyzed in the article in order to highlight the opportunities and specific features of the application. The principles of sustainable urban ecosystems are provided in the modeled system which exposes the interfaces of identified principles and can be used for future studies.

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“…In the countries of the Global North, consumer excess accompanied by great wastage has occurred since the 1970s [2]. In recent years, Brazil, Russia, India and China have contributed significantly to this growing consumption [3]. Moreover, the consequences of resource use in terms of impact on the environment may induce serious damage that goes beyond the carrying capacity of the environment [4].…”

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Can Phosphorus from Recycled Fertilisers Replace Conventional Sources? An Agronomic Evaluation in Field-Scale Experiments on Temperate Luvisols

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Facing phosphate rock scarcity, growing food requirements and pollution problems with phosphorus (P)-containing waste, re-using P as fertiliser is becoming a real need. Innovative fertilisers from sewage sludge ash, animal bones and blood, activated by phosphorus solubilising microorganisms (PSM), were tested in field experiments with winter or spring wheat and compared with commercial fertilisers (superphosphate, phosphorite). Three levels of P doses were established (17.6, 26.4 and 35.2 kg/ha). This paper discusses the fertilisers’ impact on total soil P content and on the P content and P accumulation in wheat grain and straw, weeds and post-harvest residues. Recycled fertilisers maintained soil P stocks and supplied plants with P in the same way as traditional fertilisers, and ensured a comparable P pool in the post-harvest residues to traditional fertilisers. They also did not favour weeds during competitive crop-weed interactions. The PSM included in waste-fertilisers did not exert an evident effect on the soil P content or on the P content and P accumulation in plant biomass. The findings show the potential of recycled fertilisers to act as a substitute to fertilisers from primary sources. Further field research is needed to settle the question of the reasonability of PSM inclusion into fertilisers.

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Trends of natural resource footprints in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries

Cited by 90 publications

References 26 publications

Energy costs in Germany and Europe: An assessment based on a (total real unit) energy cost accounting framework

Energy costs in Germany and Europe: An assessment based on a (total real unit) energy cost accounting framework

The Framework of the Principles of Sustainable Urban Ecosystems Development and Functioning

Can Phosphorus from Recycled Fertilisers Replace Conventional Sources? An Agronomic Evaluation in Field-Scale Experiments on Temperate Luvisols

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