International Economics of Resource Efficiency

1. Front Matter

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2. Sustainability Economics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. SUSTAINABILITY ECONOMICS AND RESOURCES

   1. Sustainability Economics, Resource Efficiency, and the Green New Deal

      • Lucas Bretschger

      Pages 3-17

   2. Global Economic Sustainability Indicator: Analysis and Policy Options for the Copenhagen Process

      • Paul J. J. Welfens, Jens K. Perret, Deniz Erdem

      Pages 19-50

   3. System Innovation for Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Policies and Political Economy

      • Paul Ekins

      Pages 51-88

   4. The Resources of Economies and the Productivity of Materials: Relevance, Measurement, Empirical Trends, Innovation, Resource Policies

      • Raimund Bleischwitz, Stefan Bringezu

      Pages 89-109

   5. The Economics of Current Metal Markets

      • Phillip Crowson

      Pages 111-123

4. International Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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5. INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS

   1. Competences for Green Development and Leapfrogging: The Case of Newly Industrializing Countries

      • Rainer Walz

      Pages 127-150

   2. The US Proposed Carbon Tariffs, WTO Scrutiny and China’s Responses

      • ZhongXiang Zhang

      Pages 151-174

   3. Plan C: China’s Development Under the Scarcity of Natural Capital

      • Dajian Zhu, Yi Wu

      Pages 175-186

   4. The Dutch Energy Transition Approach

      • René Kemp

      Pages 187-213

   5. Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability

      • Renata Dagiliūtė

      Pages 215-232

6. Rebound Effects in Economies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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7. REBOUND EFFECTS IN ECONOMIES

   1. Price and Income Induced Rebound Effects of Improved Energy Efficiency in Swedish Households: With Comments on Materials Efficiency

      • Jonas Nässén, John Holmberg

      Pages 235-251

   2. Analyzing Rebound Effects

      • Ronald Schettkat

      Pages 253-278

   3. How to Reduce the Rebound Effect?

      • Wolfgang Irrek

      Pages 279-285

8. Modelling the Use of Resources in Economies: Different Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287

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9. MODELLING THE USE OF RESOURCES IN ECONOMIES: DIFFERENT APPROACHES

   1. Multi-agent Modeling of Economic Innovation Dynamics and Its Implications for Analyzing Emission Impacts

      • Frank Beckenbach, Ramón Briegel

      Pages 289-315

   2. How to Increase Global Resource Productivity? Findings from Modelling in the PetrE Project

      • Christian Lutz

      Pages 317-331

Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. Focussing on economics, sustainability, technology and policy, the book highlights system innovation, leapfrogging strategies of emerging economies, possible rebound effects and international market development. It puts natural resources centre stage and will make an important contribution to achieving the goal of a 21st century Green Economy.

• Resource Productivity
• Sustainable Growth
• Sustainable Industrial Policy

• , Research Group 3, Wuppertal Institut, Wuppertal, Germany

  Raimund Bleischwitz

• Europäisches Institut für Internationale, Wirtschaftsbeziehungen (EIIW) e.V., Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  Paul J.J. Welfens

• East-West Center, Honolulu, USA

  ZhongXiang Zhang

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