of correlations in business cycle movements as reflecting some form of coupling or decoupling and, instead, suggests that …

.8%. During this period, therefore, the UK achieved relative but not absolute decoupling of road freight energy consumption from … distance travelled also increased much slower than GDP. The main factor contributing to the observed decoupling was the … aggregate energy intensity. The results demonstrate that the UK has been more successful than most EU countries in decoupling …

to investigate whether indicators are decoupling from global factors over time. While decoupling can be observed in a few …

–2008. In addition, we calculated the trend of decoupling effects in nonferrous metals industry in China by presenting a … theoretical framework for decoupling. As the results suggest, Chinese nonferrous metals industry has gone through four decoupling … stages: strong negative decoupling stage (1996–1998), weak decoupling stage (1999–2000), expensive negative decoupling stage …

not be directly related. This implies that a degree of „decoupling‟ is required – that economic development needs to occur … decoupling, it is vital to consider what might happen to the relationship between economic development and transport over the … and structural change. This paper suggests that in the absence of any policy change, some decoupling of economic …