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This article questions the assumptions, sustainability and ethics of endless economic growth on the basis of … finding workable solutions. It discusses how in theory GDP could continue to grow modestly in the future if we adopted a …
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The interrelationship between economic growth, efficient use of natural resources, and sustainability has been of great … interest to economists, researchers and policy makers. Knowledge of actual causality direction between sustainability …, efficiency and growth has important implications for modeling environmental economic policies. Various serious environmental …
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Given the ecological, economic and social problems around the world, the search is on for a new, alternative concept capable of showing a way out of these global problems. A concept with a claim to have a vital contribution to make, which has been under discussion since the 1980s, is that of...
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irreversible climate change. Employing a novel dynamical system modeling approach, we predict that in a business-asusual scenario …
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Organized human and natural systems generally develop by an observable process of growth, with a beginning, middle, and end. Examples range from the growth of organisms, cultures, and ecologies to that of businesses, social movements, weather systems, even personal and social relationships, and...
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This paper develops and operationalizes the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling (IEEM) platform which integrates environmental data organized under the first international standard for environmental-economic accounting with a powerful economy-wide modelling approach. IEEM enables the...
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question is how to introduce natural resource use in national income accounts to give meaning to the notion of sustainability …? National income accounts do not take into account non-market activities. Some progress has been made in the theory and … empirical implementation of sustainability by including non-market activities. A lot of work has been done but a lot more still …
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Approaching the complexities inherent in human behavior, and compounded by the increasingly multifaceted environment we live in, requires multiple angles of attack. Hence, combining theoretical investigations and applied techniques appears to be a promising approach to inform the scientific and...
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