Conrad, Elisabeth; Cassar, Louis F. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6729-6750
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 …