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. …

Efforts to assess the possibilities for decoupling economic growth from negative environmental impacts have examined …, compare decoupling results using various historical definitions of GDP on the same environmental indicator, and demonstrate … that changing the GDP data vintage does impact decoupling results in qualitatively important ways, with and without …