Decoupling human well-being and local economic growth from resources consumption and environmental degradation has been … decoupling process by proposing a set of new emergy-based and efficiency-oriented indicators. Decoupling process was verified in …-year yield efficiency, the investment cost for decoupling, and the job-opportunities cost for decoupling were developed and …

This paper considers the challenge of decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation; in contrast to several … decoupling factors, in order to consider the extent to which decoupling has been achieved in four sectors: (i) energy intensity …, climate change, and air quality; (ii) water; (iii) waste; and (iv) land. Results indicate relative decoupling between economic …

find that over this period there is some evidence of decoupling between economic growth and territorial emissions, but no … evidence of decoupling for consumption-based emissions. …