This article questions the assumptions, sustainability and ethics of endless economic growth on the basis of environmental science, ecological economics and ecological ethics. It considers the impossibility and unsustainability of endless physical growth on a finite planet. It considers the...

Chapter 1. Sustainable Energy and Environmental Sustainability in an Economics and Policy Prospective -- Section I: Economics and Policy of Sustainable Energy -- Chapter 2. Renewable Energy Policy Responses to Observed Impact of Climate Change: Evidence from DPSIR Framework -- Chapter 3. Energy...

As global temperatures keep increasing and the amount of Co2 equivalent stuff in the atmosphere is at record level, the key links between GDP growth, energy consumption expansion and greenhouse gases emission increases must be more researched, although economic growth and ecological capital has...

Plastics are an important material in the economy but present a challenge for waste management, resource efficiency and the environment. Low rates of recycling and high rates of environmental leakage represent key sustainability challenges for plastics as well as product designers and producers....