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Verma, Anupam, i Vandana Srivastava. "Natural Resource Consumption and Lockdown". International Research Journal on Advanced Science Hub 2, nr 6 (20.09.2020): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47392/irjash.2020.41.
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Yakutseni, S. P. "Water: resources, reserves, markets". Mining Industry Journal (Gornay Promishlennost), nr 4/2022 (25.08.2022): 120–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2022-4-120-128.
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The article summarizes and analyzes the resources, supplies and markets of the world's main natural resource, i.e. freshwater. The materials prepared and published in the article is based on the author's own analytical and field work. Resources of the high quality natural freshwater are tight: they are and will continue to be subject to ever-increasing demand. Over the last 80 years the total consumption of fresh water has increased by 10 times while the population has grown by a factor of 2.5. The present-day world economy is water-dependent. Main consumption of water is defined by the following four sectors of the global economy: agriculture, energy, industrial production and domestic water consumption. Growth in energy production and consumption is directly linked to increased water consumption. Water supply, wastewater collection and treatment are the leaders in capital gains. Privatization of the world's natural freshwater resources is underway. The task of total dependence of arid states on product supplies from the Golden Billion countries is being resolved. The main natural resource and asset of the Russian Federation, i.e. the water resources, is completely missing from the strategies and doctrines of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.
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Shah, Zar, Khalid Zaman, Haroon ur Rashid Khan i Awais Rashid. "The Economic Value of Natural Resources and Its Implications for Pakistan’s Economic Growth". Commodities 1, nr 2 (27.10.2022): 65–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/commodities1020006.
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Natural resources and ecological services provide the foundation for manufactured capital, increasing public financing and decreasing inequality by diversifying the economy. The exploitation of natural resources is frequently the backbone of economic stability in developing and middle-income nations. As a result of their importance, natural resources need vigilant and long-term management. Recent research has tested two hypotheses, the natural resource blessing hypothesis and the natural resource curse hypothesis, on the impact of a country’s natural resources on its economy. This research is an essential contribution to the growing body of work that attempts to quantify natural resource endowments’ role in national economic growth. Investigations focus on Pakistan and span the years 1975 through 2020. Robust Least Square (RLS) estimations show that coal rents, energy use, inbound FDI, and oil rents contribute to a country’s economic growth. While consumption of renewable energy sources and industrial value-added have a detrimental effect. Natural resources, foreign direct investment, energy consumption, and industrial ecology are predicted to significantly impact economic growth during the next decade, according to the Impulse Response Function (IRF) and the Variance Decomposition Analysis (VDA). The findings may provide helpful information for academic and governmental institutions to develop natural resource management policies for sustainable development.
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VAN IERLAND, EKKO C., i HANS-PETER WEIKARD. "Poverty, environment and natural resource use: introduction to the special issue". Environment and Development Economics 13, nr 5 (październik 2008): 537–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x08004713.
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A growing population and growing per capita consumption threaten the environment and the natural resource base. Where natural resources are at risk, the livelihoods of many are at risk as well. In May 2006 the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group of Wageningen University organized a conference on ‘Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use’ with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the links between poverty and the natural resource base. The state of the environment affects people's living conditions – and poverty affects environmental quality. Environmental policies cannot be designed and natural resources cannot be managed without appropriate consideration of local people's reactions to those policies and management decisions.
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Derzko, N. A., i S. P. Sethi. "Optimal exploration and consumption of a natural resource-deterministic case". Optimal Control Applications and Methods 2, nr 1 (29.10.2007): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oca.4660020102.
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Sinivuori, Paula, i Arto Saari. "MIPS analysis of natural resource consumption in two university buildings". Building and Environment 41, nr 5 (maj 2006): 657–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.02.022.
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Wiedmann, Thomas O., Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West i Keiichiro Kanemoto. "The material footprint of nations". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, nr 20 (3.09.2013): 6271–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110.
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Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rate than economic growth (relative decoupling) or have even managed to use fewer resources over time (absolute decoupling). Using the material footprint (MF), a consumption-based indicator of resource use, we find the contrary: Achievements in decoupling in advanced economies are smaller than reported or even nonexistent. We present a time series analysis of the MF of 186 countries and identify material flows associated with global production and consumption networks in unprecedented specificity. By calculating raw material equivalents of international trade, we demonstrate that countries’ use of nondomestic resources is, on average, about threefold larger than the physical quantity of traded goods. As wealth grows, countries tend to reduce their domestic portion of materials extraction through international trade, whereas the overall mass of material consumption generally increases. With every 10% increase in gross domestic product, the average national MF increases by 6%. Our findings call into question the sole use of current resource productivity indicators in policy making and suggest the necessity of an additional focus on consumption-based accounting for natural resource use.
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Sakhlecha, Manish, Samir Bajpai i Rajesh Kumar Singh. "Mathematical Model to Evaluate the Sustainability Score of Resource Consumption for Buildings (SSRCB)". International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 13, nr 3 (maj 2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.290005.
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Building sector has grown as one of the major resource intensive sector. Consumption of resources is at a much rapid rate resulting in possibility of their becoming scarce and may even be their exhaustion. In the evaluation of sustainability of buildings, impact of resource consumption is required to be addressed along with the environmental impacts. Hence it is important to evaluate the scarcity potential of resources at national and local levels for buildings and develop sustainable models for resources that affect sustainability of building sector as a whole. In this paper a simple predictive model for sustainability of resources has been developed; correlating the rate of consumption of natural resources, future demand, and available reserves of resource for building sector at regional level in Indian context. The model calculates the sustainability score of resource consumption for a residential building and emphasizes the need of incorporating sustainability measures, like use of industrial wastes and recycling and reuse of building demolition wastes, in the building sector.
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Schneider, Petra, Lukas Folkens, Andreas Meyer i Tino Fauk. "Sustainability and Dimensions of a Nexus Approach in a Sharing Economy". Sustainability 11, nr 3 (11.02.2019): 909. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030909.
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Increasing global resource consumption puts the availability of natural mineral resources under significant pressure. One strategy to overcome this trend is the decoupling of economic growth and resource consumption and the application of circular economy approaches. These approaches aim at closing material cycles across sectoral boundaries. Beside these attempts, there are further options for action aimed at minimization of resource consumption through resource sharing approaches. This study investigates resource-saving potentials on different scales namely on a personal scale through sharing goods and services, but also in the frame of industrial symbiosis through sharing of secondary resources at a company scale. The environmental effects have been quantified using life cycle assessment examples for these two simulated cases. The results show for both resource consumption levels, resource savings potentials of up to 2 powers of ten, that can particularly be proven regarding the impact category ‘fossil resource depletion’. The emergence of industrial symbiosis can be identified by six factors: Resource, government, economy, company, technology, and society. The cases simulated in the study are supported by empirical evidence from real-life examples, which consider the mentioned factors.
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Thomas, Tilba, i A. Praveen. "Regulating natural resource consumption in the construction sector using emergy model". IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1114, nr 1 (1.03.2021): 012033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1114/1/012033.
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Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit, i Gelson Tembo. "Household Consumption and Natural Resource Management around National Parks in Zambia". Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 2, nr 1 (14.01.2010): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19390450903350838.
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Ilie, Filip. "Life cycle assessment in choosing alternatives for energy sector development". INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 8, nr 2 (31.01.2014): 1278–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijmit.v8i2.679.
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Development of industrial activities have negative effect on natural resources and environment therefore, production systems must respect the principles of sustainable development by minimize natural resource consumption and pollutant emissions. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of a industrial activities is a technical tool, a method that allows evaluation of the socio-economic activities in relation with the environment, from birth to death. The aim of this paper is analysis of resource and energy consumption in Romania, using LCA, that can identify environmental and socio-economic aspects of analyzed sector, for taking effective measures, to ensure quality requirements, social, economic, protect environment and improving energy.
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Miao, Ze Hua, i Chen Zi Yang. "Study on the Path to Executing Eco-Engineering and Circular Economy in the Resource Enterprise". Advanced Materials Research 734-737 (sierpień 2013): 2073–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.734-737.2073.
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Natural resources are the basis for human beings and economic and social development. However, globalization, over-exploration of the natural resources, and the traditional development mode and economic growth mode lead to the resource exhaustion, geological disasters, and serious environmental pollution and degradation. Therefore, developing circular economy, and carrying out eco-engineering in the resource enterprises and sustainable development of natural resources are very significant in improving the positive development of the resource enterprise and regional economy. This paper, based on the theory of eco-engineering and circular economy, makes a study on the implement of eco-engineering. It points out that the resource enterprise should be directed by theories of sustainable development and circular economy, base on ecological ethics, adopt clean production and eco-design, and advocate green consumption and green marketing.
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Koroneos, C. J., Ch Achillas, N. Moussiopoulos i E. A. Nanaki. "Life Cycle Thinking in the Use of Natural Resources". Open Environmental Sciences 7, nr 1 (22.03.2013): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1876325101307010001.
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The continuous increase of production and consumption of material in the developed world and the increase of the standard of living of the developing countries leads to the increase of the use of natural resources and the degradation of the environment. Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) is essential to sustainable consumption and production which will impact the use of limited resources. LCT is the process of taking into account in decision making both the resources consumed and the environmental and health pressures associated with the full life cycle of a product. It includes the extraction of resources, production, use, re-use, transport, recycling, and the ultimate waste disposal to provide goods and services and it helps in avoiding shifting the burdens among various life stages of a resource processing. It is important to use the life cycle thinking in analysing products because they may have different environmental impacts at different life cycle stages. It is important to note that some products have very high environmental impacts during the extraction and processing of their original natural resource but they may have minor environmental impacts when they are recycled. A good example is aluminium. The objective of this work is to analyze the importance of the life cycle thinking concept, and show its direct linkage to sustainability.
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Lavrikova, Yuliya, Aleksandr Semyachkov i Zhun Gao. "THEORETICAL BASIS OF ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE MECHANISMS OF CONTROLLED NATURE USE". Russian Journal of Management 9, nr 1 (14.04.2021): 111–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/2409-6024-2021-9-1-111-115.
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Natural resources are the material basis for economic and social development, but the public characteristics of natural resources force the resource market to show more failures, the lack of a number of economic policies related to natural resources has led to the fact that the development, use and reproduction of natural resources has led to the loss of effective institutional constraints , which led to the overdevelopment, use and consumption of atmospheric resources, water resources, forest resources, land resources, and fuel and energy resources. which leads to the depletion of some resources, people can get local limited resources only by buying resources elsewhere. Therefore, it is necessary to improve control over natural resources and measures of the economic mechanism.
The author of this article proposes methods for managing natural resources based on the characteristics of various indicators of natural resources (water, atmosphere, forest, land, fuel energy) and demonstrates the mechanisms of using natural resources in the main resource countries of the world.
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Vazhenina, L. V., E. R. Magaril i I. A. Mayburov. "Comprehensive Assessment of Resource Efficiency of Russian Gas Industry Companies". Journal of Applied Economic Research 21, nr 3 (2022): 454–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2022.21.3.016.
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The purpose of this study is to develop methodological foundations for a comprehensive assessment of the resource efficiency of natural gas extraction, processing and pipeline transportation companies as the basis for balanced consumption and resource provision. The study shows that in complex and rapidly changing conditions, the growth of global consumption of hydrocarbons, in particular natural gas, triggers a search for new resource-saving methods and technologies that reduce the resource intensity of industrial production and the impact on the environment, to develop resource-efficient methods and resource-saving policies. The paper proposes a conceptual approach to a comprehensive assessment of the resource efficiency of gas industry companies and highlights its main provisions. A methodological approach and a methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the resource efficiency of the gas industry have been developed, including an integral calculation and a comparative assessment of the resource efficiency indicators of industrial enterprises: extraction, processing and pipeline transport of natural gas. The proposed methodology for a comprehensive assessment of resource efficiency is distinguished by a system of indicators reflecting the functioning of production, economic, financial, investment, energy and environmental spheres of activity, which makes it possible, based on simulation modeling and scenario forecasting, to conduct a comparative analysis of the development of industry companies by the level of resource conservation, resource availability and resource consumption in the post-forecast and forecast period. The proposed methodology for a comprehensive assessment of resource efficiency in the formation of an optimal structure of resource supply and resource consumption of an industrial enterprise is distinguished by the use of predictive and analytical tools and simulation modeling of the activities of industrial companies, which enables them to determine their resource-efficient development option and select promising business processes. The methodological tools were tested using the cases of companies engaged in gas production (Novatek), gas processing (Sibur) and pipeline gas transportation (Gazprom). The analysis of the results of the conducted approbation showed the existing differences in modern mechanisms for resource conservation, consumption and provision of resources in industry companies, as well as possible growth points and prospects for their resource-efficient development.
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Baninla, Yvette, Qian Zhang, Xiaoqi Zheng i Yonglong Lu. "Drivers of changes in natural resources consumption of Central African countries". Clean Technologies and Recycling 2, nr 2 (2022): 80–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/ctr.2022005.
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<abstract> <p>Consumption of nine different natural resources has kept an increasing trend in Central African countries from 1970 to 2018. This study therefore, investigates the changes and major determinants that have driven the patterns of resource use in six Central African countries over almost fifty years. We used the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method to quantitatively analyze different effects of technology, affluence and population associated with domestic material consumption (DMC) of Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon from 1970 to 2018. We further subdivided the technological effect into technological intensity (DMC/energy) and energy intensity (energy/gross domestic product (GDP)) and conducted a four-factor LMDI analysis of Cameroon as a case study. The results highlight that decreased affluence during certain periods has slowed down DMC growth in four of six Central African countries except for Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, while significant technology offset in Equatorial Guinea reduces DMC growth by 28%. Population remains the main positive driving factor of DMC growth, with the highest share in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The case of Cameroon shows that technological intensity and energy intensity play different roles in changing DMC. This study confirms that the rising population and economic growth, combined with a gradual improvement in technology in the region are insufficient to reduce natural resource use. A stringent management plan of natural resources for Central African countries should focus on technological improvement while remaining balanced with the future demand for socioeconomic development in the coming decades.</p> </abstract>
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Semyachkov, Alexander, i Rong Gao. "Differentiation of resource regions of Russia in terms of balanced environmental management". E3S Web of Conferences 301 (2021): 01002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130101002.
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In conditions of natural resource constraints and technogenic destruction of the natural environment, there is a need to improve the mechanisms for managing the natural resource potential in the regions while maintaining a balance between the consumption of natural resources and the preservation of the quality of the environment. The article examines the differentiation of three natural resource regions of the Russian Federation - the Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts - according to the state of the balance of nature management from 1990 to 2018. The subjects of the federation in the Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts have been identified, with positive and negative use of natural resources for certain types of natural resources: atmospheric, water, forest, land and fuel and energy. The degree of variability in the management of natural resources in these federal districts has been determined. In general, according to the given resources, there is a predominance of "satisfactory" and "positive" nature management in the districts, although according to some indicators there is a "negative" nature management with a clear predominance of the use of resources over their restoration, which predetermines the adoption of cardinal management measures to correct the situation.
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Mayer, Andreas, i Willi Haas. "Cumulative material flows provide indicators to quantify the ecological debt". Journal of Political Ecology 23, nr 1 (1.12.2016): 350. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v23i1.20222.
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There is ample evidence that an unabated growth in material consumption is likely to pass the earth system's source and sink capacities. In the face of limited resources, distributional questions increasingly gain importance. Material flow accounting is a methodological tool to trace biophysical patterns of disproportionate resource consumption across countries and the debt towards the environment, other parts of the world, and towards future generations through the excessive consumption of natural resources. At the core of this article, we address different developments of material use for individual countries and world regions from 1950 to 2010. During this phase, fossil fuel-based industrialization triggered an unprecedented growth in material consumption, mainly in the wealthy world regions of Europe, Australia, North America, and partly in the countries of the former Soviet Union, while low resource consumption persists in other regions. We thus calculated cumulative resource use from 1950 to 2010 to show the extent of this wealth built up upon countries' own resources, or through imports from other countries or world regions. We use the degree of net-import dependency of individual countries as a proxy for the ecological debt, and relate it to the domestic resource extraction in a country. Our observations show that there was a highly uneven distribution of resource extraction and use in the 60 years analyzed, which has important implications for future global resource policies.Keywords: Ecological debt, material flow accounting, international trade, global resource useRésuméIl
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VINCENT, JEFFREY R. "Resource depletion and economic sustainability in Malaysia". Environment and Development Economics 2, nr 1 (luty 1997): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x97000107.
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Countries richly endowed with natural resources have, on average, developed less rapidly than countries that are poor in natural resources. One possible explanation for this phenomenon is that the level of investment in reproducible capital has been insufficient to offset the depletion of natural capital. The empirical significance of this explanation can be investigated by analysing modified measures of net investment and net domestic product. Estimation of these measures involves calculating the economic depreciation of natural resources, a task that has been problematic in previous studies. Malaysia provides an ideal case for such empirical investigations, as it is one of the world's most resource-rich countries yet also has one of the world's fastest-growing economies, consists of three subnational regions that differ significantly in terms of economic structure, and has sufficient data for estimating conceptually correct measures of natural resource depreciation. Results of the analysis indicate that Malaysia has developed sustainably, despite substantial resource depletion. This is not the case in two of the regions, however, where trends in both net investment and net domestic product indicate that current consumption levels cannot be sustained. Nevertheless, the regional differences in sustainability might be consistent with optimal national use of the rents generated by exploitation of the country's natural resources.
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Miller, David. "Armstrong on Justice, Well-being and Natural Resources". Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 13, nr 01 (28.07.2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/gjn.13.01.186.
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This paper argues first that Armstrong is led to see natural resources primarily as objects of consumption. But many natural resources are better seen as objects of enjoyment, where one person’s access to a resource need not prevent others from enjoying equal access, or as objects of production, where granting control of a resource to one person may produce collateral benefits to others. Second, Armstrong’s approach to resource distribution, which requires that everyone must have equal access to welfare, conceals an ambiguity as to whether this means equal opportunity for welfare, or simply equal welfare – the underlying issue being how far individuals (or countries) should be held responsible for the use they make of the resources they are allocated. Third, when Armstrong attacks arguments that appeal to ‘improvement’ as a basis for claims to natural resources, he treats them as making comparative desert claims: if country A makes a claim to the improved resources on its territory, it must show that their comparative value accurately reflects the productive deserts of its members compared to those of countries B. But in fact, A needs only to make the much weaker claim that its members have done more than others to enhance the value of its resources. Overall, Armstrong’s welfarist approach fails to appreciate the dynamic advantages of allocating resources to those best able to use them productively.
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Whitney, Julian S. "Planetary Crisis: Consumption and Resource Management in Byron’s ‘Darkness’". Byron Journal 50, nr 1 (1.06.2022): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bj.2022.6.
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This essay argues that Lord Byron uses multiple images of consumption in ‘Darkness’ to engage in a broader conversation about the merits of conservation and resource management. I suggest that Byron offers a critique of consumption that identifies how waste and excess are direct products of humanity’s self-indulgent gluttony. In his poem, Byron admonishes reckless overeating by insinuating that it leads, inevitably, to the planet’s destruction due to a lack of natural resources. Byron suggests that humanity’s extinction will come not from an outside or unearthly force but rather from the greed of our stomachs, thereby reinforcing the need to exercise restraint and self-discipline in the way resources are consumed by human civilisation. I conclude that Byron’s focus on consumption reveals a complicated and multi-layered understanding of the environment that places human eating at the centre of the crisis.
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Nisengwe, Jean François Régis, Adam Willcox i Liem Tran. "Perceptions of Natural Resources Use in Rwanda - A Partial Proportional Odds Model". East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources 3, nr 1 (16.09.2021): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajenr.3.1.412.
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The scarcity of natural resources is a challenge in Rwanda. Although Rwanda has improved water supplies, projections show a further increase in water demand. Particularly, agriculture continues to place further demands on water resources through intensification and industrialization. Similarly, although the dependence on biomass for cooking has improved over the past two decades in Rwanda, the ratio is still high and is projected to increase. Unfortunately, the heavy dependence on biomass is damaging to the environment in general, forests in particular. As the consumption of water and charcoal increases, it is important to study how people perceive their consumption. Research shows that people who perceive their consumption of natural resources are more likely to conserve them as they can see how much they are consuming. This study investigated perceptions of water and charcoal consumption among farmers in northern Rwanda. A survey was used to collect data from 323 farmers involved in a poultry development project in the district of Musanze, northern Rwanda. A Partial Proportional Odds Model (PPOM) was used to analyse the effect of different factors on the perception of natural resource consumption. Results indicate that the perception of charcoal consumption was associated with three variables: living in the urban section of the district, the amount of feed consumed by chicken, and elevation at which the coop is located. Results from this study can improve how food security projects are implemented by incorporating people’s perceptions of their consumption of natural resources.
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McSkimming, Chloe, Bayden D. Russell, Jason E. Tanner i Sean D. Connell. "A test of metabolic and consumptive responses to local and global perturbations: enhanced resources stimulate herbivores to counter expansion of weedy species". Marine and Freshwater Research 67, nr 1 (2016): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf14266.
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The capacity of natural systems to resist environmental change underpins ecosystem stability, e.g. the persistence of kelp-dominated states which are sometimes displaced by subordinates or weedy species (i.e. algal turfs). Perturbation by resource enhancement at global (e.g. CO2 emissions) through local scales (e.g. nutrient pollution) increases the probability of turf domination, yet these same resources stimulate an increase in per capita consumption of turfs by herbivores. We test whether such resource perturbation can stimulate herbivores to absorb the additional productivity of turfs that cause kelp displacement. We tested the hypotheses that (1) elevated nitrogen (N) and carbon dioxide (CO2) not only stimulate an increase in consumptive rates, but also stimulate an increase in underlying metabolic rates of gastropod herbivores, so that (2) enhanced primary productivity is countered by herbivory. We reveal that elevated nitrogen and CO2 stimulated an elevation in rates of consumption in proportion to an increase in metabolic rate of grazers. Subsequently, grazers consumed proportionately greater cover of turfs to counter turf expansion. Resource enrichment, therefore, can stimulate metabolic and consumptive activity of herbivores to absorb the additional productivity of opportunistic species. Hence, the competitive potential of subordinates to displace community dominants may be checked by the very resources that otherwise drive instability.
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Ovchinnikova, Svetlana, Aleksandr Borovkov, Elena Schneider i Andrey Kalinichenkо. "Optimal ways to improve the greening of the production sector". E3S Web of Conferences 244 (2021): 01013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202124401013.
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The paper discusses a system of criteria that make it possible to assess the level of environmental safety of an enterprise. The model of the “nature-population-production” system and the very interaction of the system are presented. Environmental problems, problems of ecology of production, and consumption of natural resources lead to an increase in the rate of growth of production, which, in turn, leads to an increase in demand for resources, and as a consequence, to their irrational use, and then to massive emissions into the environment as waste. In order to improve the environmental situation in the country, some areas for improving the greening of the production sector are presented, which increase the efficiency of consumption and use of natural resources, while reducing environmental pollution by emissions, effluents, and waste. The main indicators that determine the level of environmental management are presented - indicators of resource intensity, an indicator of the degree of restoration of natural resources, and indicators of saving primary natural resources. All three indicators are part of the specific consumption of natural resources and can be used at the enterprise to control the consumption of natural resources, as well as in order to minimize waste through the use of secondary resources and low-waste technologies. The established ways of improving the greening of the production sector are able to improve the ecological situation in the regions of the country and establish the relationship between man, nature and the production sector.
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Guyader, Hugo, Mikael Ottosson, Per Frankelius i Lars Witell. "Identifying the resource integration processes of green service". Journal of Service Management 31, nr 4 (25.02.2019): 839–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/josm-12-2017-0350.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of green service. In particular, the focus is on identifying homopathic and heteropathic resource integration processes that preserve or increase the resourceness of the natural ecosystem. Design/methodology/approach Through an extensive multiple case study involving ten service providers from diverse sectors based on a substantial number of interviews, detailed accounts of green service are provided. Findings Six resource integration processes were identified: reducing, recirculating, recycling, redistributing, reframing and renewing. While four of these processes are based on homopathic resource integration, both reframing and renewing are based on heteropathic resource integration. While homopathic processes historically constitute a green service by mitigating the impact of consumption on the environment, heteropathic resource integration increases the resourceness of the natural ecosystem through emergent processes and the (re)creation of natural resources. Research limitations/implications The present study breaks away from the paradigm that “green service” is about reducing the negative environmental impact of existing services, toward providing a green service that expands biological diversity and other natural resources. Originality/value Transformative service research on environmental sustainability is still in its infancy. The present study contributes through conceptualizing green service, redefining existing resource integration processes (reducing, recirculating, recycling) and identifying new resource integration processes (redistributing, reframing, renewing).
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Nguyen, Manh-Hung, i Phu Nguyen-Van. "OPTIMAL ENDOGENOUS GROWTH WITH NATURAL RESOURCES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE". Macroeconomic Dynamics 20, nr 8 (8.04.2016): 2173–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1365100515000061.
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This paper considers an optimal endogenous growth model where the production function is assumed to exhibit increasing returns to scale and two types of resource (renewable and nonrenewable) are imperfect substitutes. Natural resources, labor, and physical capital are used in the final goods sector and in the accumulation of knowledge. Based on results in the calculus of variations, a direct proof of the existence of an optimal solution is provided. Analytical solutions for the planner case, balanced growth paths, and steady states are found for a specific CRRA utility and Cobb–Douglas production function. It is possible to have long-run growth where both energy resources are used simultaneously along the equilibrium path. As the law of motion of the technological change is not concave, reflecting the increasing returns to scale, so that the Arrow–Mangasarian sufficiency conditions do not apply, we provide a sufficient condition directly. Transitional dynamics to the steady state from the theoretical model are used to derive three convergence equations of output intensity growth rate, exhaustible resource growth rate, and renewable resource growth rate, which are tested based on OECD data on production and energy consumption.
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Jorgenson, Andrew K. "Unpacking International Power and the Ecological Footprints of Nations: A Quantitative Cross-National Study". Sociological Perspectives 48, nr 3 (wrzesień 2005): 383–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sop.2005.48.3.383.
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Although unsustainable natural resource consumption has recently garnered significant attention in macrosociology, empirical studies neglect to analyze the environmental impacts of different forms of international power dynamics. This study dissects international power into its various economic, military, and export dependence characteristics, and analyzes their independent effects on per-capita consumption of natural resources, measured as ecological footprints. Findings of the quantitative cross-national analyses indicate that economic power in the form of capital intensity, military technological power, and overall export dependence are the structural driving forces of per-capita resource consumption. The effects of military technological power and export dependence on percapita footprints are primarily direct, whereas the effect of capital intensity is both direct and indirect, partly mediated by its effects on levels of secondary education and domestic income inequality, both of which impact levels of per-capita consumption. The results advance our collective understanding of the complexities of international power, domestic conditions, and uneven environmental outcomes and illustrate the necessity for taking a more nuanced approach to analyses of anthropogenic degradation of the global ecological system.
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Fang, Ming, Ming Li Cao, Yan Li i Yong Li. "Material Flow Analysis on Cement Industry". Advanced Materials Research 512-515 (maj 2012): 3042–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.512-515.3042.
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Since the relationship between supply and demand of natural resources is on edge in the long run, the traditional extensive growth mode of economic development needs changing. Cement is widely used in construction. Producing cement needs large amount of natural resources and releases high waste emissions. By using Material Flow Analysis, the inputs and outputs of each part of manufacturing are analyzed scientifically and the inputs, outputs and efficiency indicators are accounted. The main hidden flows come from energy consumption, and the main harmful waste is CO2which comes from fuel combustion and CaCO3decomposition. Improving resource consumption efficiency and reducing CO2emission are the key ways to alleviate pressures on the environment.
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Dunford, Richard W. "The Discount Rate for Assessing Intragenerational Natural Resource Damages". Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 8, nr 1-2 (listopad 2018): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/naturesopolirese.8.1-2.0089.
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Abstract For more than 20 years, economists have converted annual losses from injuries to natural resources caused by oil spills or hazardous-substance releases into their present-value equivalents using a 3% real discount rate. A 1999 technical paper from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provided three data series from 1981 through 1998 supporting a 3% real discount rate. However, data series for 1981 through 2016, which provide a proxy for the social rate of time preference for consumption by the public, support a lower discount rate. Furthermore, recent conceptual developments imply a lower discount rate for environmental services than for produced goods and services. We present several lines of evidence that support a real discount rate of not more than 2% for assessing intragenerational natural resource damages.
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Hasanov, A. A., I. V. Khan-Khoyskaya i A. M. Bagirova. "Natural and Resource Potential of the Region as Part of Investment Resources: Evidence from the Ganja-Gazakh Economic Region of Azerbaijan". Digest Finance 25, nr 1 (30.03.2020): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24891/df.25.1.17.
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Subject. The article describes natural resource capabilities of the Ganja-Gazakh Economic Region of Azerbaijan, with the diversity, quantity, quality, exploration degree and parameters of raw material source exploitation in the region being a cornerstone for this. Objectives. The study is to promote such projects that involve an increase in both internal and external investment in the Ganja-Gazakh Economic Region. To achieve that, local authorities should improve the investment climate and prepare the acts – decisions within their areas of expertise that promote investments in the modernization of the industrial infrastructure and ensure that investors have access to the reliable information about the natural and resources potential of the region and its ecological situation. Methods. The study is based on the systems analysis. The emergence principle, also known as the principle of irreducibility, i.e. properties of a whole are not equal to a sum of properties of its components, in our opinion, may serve as means of guidance in use of natural and resource potential in order to face challenges of investing in a specific region. Results. We assessed the stock of the main natural resources types and revealed that the region’s environment severely suffered from the depletion and pollution aggravated by a growth in the consumption of natural resources consumption grows. Conclusions and Relevance. It is necessary to boost investment not only in projects for further use of natural resources but also in priority programs aiming at the recovery and preservation of the environment.
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Manzoor, Talha, Elena Rovenskaya, Alexey Davydov i Abubakr Muhammad. "Learning Through Fictitious Play in a Game-Theoretic Model of Natural Resource Consumption". IEEE Control Systems Letters 2, nr 1 (styczeń 2018): 163–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lcsys.2017.2777898.
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Vihermaa, Leena, Michael Lettenmeier i Arto Saari. "Natural resource consumption in rail transport: A note analysing two Finnish railway lines". Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 11, nr 3 (maj 2006): 227–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2006.02.002.
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Selles, Hendrik. "The relative impact of countries on global natural resource consumption and ecological degradation". International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 20, nr 2 (22.03.2013): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2013.780190.
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Kawai, Kosuke, i Masahiro Osako. "Reduction of natural resource consumption in cement production in Japan by waste utilization". Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 14, nr 2 (29.02.2012): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10163-012-0042-4.
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Manzoor, Talha, Elena Rovenskaya i Abubakr Muhammad. "Structural Effects and Aggregation in a Social-Network Model of Natural Resource Consumption". IFAC-PapersOnLine 50, nr 1 (lipiec 2017): 7675–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1139.
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Richie, Cristina. "“Green” Reproduction, Resource Conservation, and Ecological Responsibility". Worldviews 18, nr 2 (2014): 144–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-01802003.
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This paper will draw on Catholic resources to examine the impact of population and consumption vis-à-vis reproduction in the developed world as it relates to theological/ moral obligations to the earth. By examining both natural and artificial means of procreation, an assessment of “green” reproduction can be made. I will explore contraception as an option for limiting natural procreation, and the avoidance of assisted reproductive technologies [ARTs] as a way of preventive artificial reproduction. However, both family size and carbon footprint must be scrutinized for ecologically sound consumer practices in accordance with biblical principles to ensure the global magnitude of the ecological crisis is examined; therefore the role of consumption that stems from procreation will also be discussed. The paper will conclude by envisioning alternative parenting options as they relate to ecological practices, and I will assert that all things considered, on the continuum of ecologically oriented reproductive choices, non-biological parenting and thereby a reduction in procreation and consumerist practices is the most ethical and ecological solution to the environmental crisis that surely escalates with each birth.
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Buhl, Johannes, Christa Liedtke, Sebastian Schuster i Katrin Bienge. "Predicting the Material Footprint in Germany between 2015 and 2020 via Seasonally Decomposed Autoregressive and Exponential Smoothing Algorithms". Resources 9, nr 11 (25.10.2020): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources9110125.
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Recent research on the natural resource use of private consumption suggests a sustainable Material Footprint of 8 tons per capita by 2050 in industrialised countries. We analyse the Material Footprint in Germany from 2015 to 2020 in order to test whether the Material Footprint decreases accordingly. We studied the Material Footprint of 113,559 users of an online footprint calculator and predicted the Material Footprint by seasonally decomposed autoregressive (STL-ARIMA) and exponential smoothing (STL-ETS) algorithms. We find a relatively stable Material Footprint for private consumption. The overall Material Footprint decreased by 0.4% per year between 2015 and 2020 on average. The predictions do not suggest that the Material Footprint of private consumption follows the reduction path of 3.3% per year that will lead to the sustainable consumption of natural resources.
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Kuuskraa, Vello A. "Outlook for North American Natural Gas Supplies". Energy Exploration & Exploitation 13, nr 5 (październik 1995): 511–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014459879501300508.
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The underlying resource base for North American natural gas is large, sufficient for nearly 100 years of current consumption. As such, the issues are not the size of the resource, but how to convert this resource into economically competitive supply. The key questions are: * Will the cost (price) of natural gas remain competitive? * What is the status of near-term deliverability? * Will there be enough supply to meet growing demand? These economic and market issues frame the outlook for gas supplies in North America. Most importantly, they will determine how natural gas emerges from its competition for markets with other fuels and electricity. The paper addresses these questions by examining: (1) the underlying nature of the natural gas resource base; (2) the current status and trends in deliverability: and, (3) the potential of new technologies for producing gas more cost-effectively.
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Guo, Ying, Dongpo Xia, Binghua Sun, Xi Wang, Dao Zhang i Jinhua Li. "Ecological footprints and development trends in Hefei, China". Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 29, nr 1 (8.01.2018): 2–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-12-2016-0094.
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Purpose Because natural resource utilization is a predictor of sustainable development, an evaluation of the efficiency of resource utilization is critical for assessing developmental potentiality. The purpose of this paper is to apply three-dimensional (3D) ecological footprint theory to assess the effects of production and consumption on ecological systems in Hefei, China. Design/methodology/approach Using data for Hefei for the period 2005-2014, an ecological footprint model (EFM) was developed to calculate the area’s ecological footprint (EF), ecological carrying (EC) capacity and obtain two indices, namely, footprint depth and size. The relationship between economic development and natural resource utilization was subsequently evaluated based on the calculated ecological deficit and the EF demand per Renminbi 10,000 of gross domestic product (GDP). Findings Over the last decade, Hefei’s EF per capita evidenced a 9.87 percent growth rate, increasing from 1.16 hm2/person in 2005 to 2.70 hm2/person in 2014. EC capacity per capita increased from 0.21 hm2/person in 2005 to 0.36 hm2/person in 2014, evidencing a gradually increasing trend at an average annual growth rate of 6.24 percent. Thus, between 2005 and 2014, the ecological deficit increased annually by three times. The amplification of footprint depth significantly exceeded that of footprint size. Between 2005 and 2014, Hefei’s EF per capita Renminbi 10,000 of GDP decreased annually by 4.68 percent. Thus, energy consumption in Hefei exceeded the natural regeneration capacity of energy resources, with excessive development and resource utilization impacting on the regional ecological system. Practical implications The application of a 3D EFM sheds light on natural resource utilization within regional development. Moreover, footprint depth and size are significant predictors of the impacts of natural resource utilization. These findings will also benefit other countries or cities. Originality/value This is one of the first empirical studies to apply a 3D EFM to evaluate the relationship between natural resource utilization and economic development. Adopting a sustainable development framework, it provides insights into the effects of natural resource utilization in relation to the balance between the natural ecological system and economic development. This has far-reaching implications beyond Hefei and China.
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Liu, Cheng Kun, Sen Qiao, Yu Qiang Guo, Jun Tu i Hsing Hung Chen. "Examining the Relationship between Natural Gas Consumption and Sustainable Development". Advanced Materials Research 1051 (październik 2014): 511–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1051.511.
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Natural gas is one of the cleanest and hydrogen-richest energy among all the hydrocarbon energy sources. This paper expects to examine the causal relationship of economic growth with natural gas consumption, sustainable development, and social development. Natural gas is the most principal urban gas source in China. In addition, shale gas has become a new major alternative resource for satisfying the rapidly increasing demand for energy since 2012. Then, the importance of examining the relationship among economic development, natural gas consumption and environmental performance index is obvious and urgent.
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Gerber, Nicolas, i Anik Bhaduri. "Producers' Well-Being and Natural Resource Extraction: The Eaglewood Trade in Papua New Guinea". Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 46, nr 1 (9.02.2017): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/age.2016.33.
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We illustrate how natural resource dependent and isolated communities manage their forest stock. Our model is based on field observations of the Eaglewood trade in Papua New Guinea. Using a dynamic model of household utility maximization and simulations, we analyze the impact of variations in the (monopsonistic) resource price on the households’ consumption choices and their allocation of effort across depletive and nondepletive activities. The stock of forest is embedded directly in the households’ utility function (existence value) and in their (nonseparable) production and consumption functions. We show that poverty (in production assets) does not inevitably lead to stock depletion.
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Mykhaylenko, Volodymyr, i Oleksiy Antonov. "THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY ON THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT". Environmental Problems 7, nr 3 (2022): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/ep2022.03.134.
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The article is aimed at researching the current problem of socioecology - the causes and consequences of possible resource depletion, as well as establishing the possibility of its averting. There are two classifications of natural resources from the point of view of ecology: according to their renewability and according to the possibility of use. Based on the concept of the Rouche limit, the law of the resource balance of society is formulated, which relates the social productivity of labor to the population density and the depletion of available natural resources. This law is another form of recording the balance of social production and consumption of resources. The consequences of its violation are shown.The effect of abiotic, biotic and anthropogenic factors on the rate of depletion of available natural resources is studied, and the decisive role of scientific and technological progress in the development of the resource base of society is shown. It was determined that scientific and technological progress is a decisive factor in averting a resource catastrophe by humanity and individual nations. The conducted study of the social structure allows us to draw a conclusion about the decisive role of industrial relations in the implementation of new scientific and technical solutions in production.
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Pritchard, Matthew. "Re-inserting and re-politicizing nature: the resource curse and human-environment relations". Journal of Political Ecology 20, nr 1 (1.12.2013): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21751.
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The last sixty years have seen a significant shift away from seeing resource wealth as a key component of positive macro-economic reform, to acceptance of the negative impacts that an abundance of, or dependence on, natural resources can have on security, economic growth, and the development of accountable political institutions. The appropriation and extraction of natural resources emerge as expressions of complex relations existing within and between states, institutions and actors. At the same time, the attention given to this potential 'resource curse' has precipitated a number of critiques that challenge not only the data and statistical methods used to link resource wealth with negative development outcomes, but also the theoretical foundation and relevance of studies that reduce complex socio-political and economic relations to the presence of specific resources. This article draws on key literature from the field of political ecology to demonstrate how the concept of 'nature' has been omitted from these discussions. Critical analysis of 'nature' can refine the theoretical foundation and practical application of the 'resource curse' thesis. By re-inserting, re-politicizing and re-localizing the concept of nature we can include local production and consumption in the analysis, while also highlighting the link between our understanding of natural resources and historically rooted discourses of 'proper-use.'Key Words: Resource curse, political ecology, security, nature
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Sapna, Anjali Gupta i Pardeep Kumar. "Green human resource management: 21st century tool for achieving sustainable development". Journal of Management and Science 11, nr 4 (31.12.2021): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/jms.11.33.
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Increasing pollution from industries, scarce availability of resources in the economy, high consumption of natural resources creating urge to concern about the environment. These issues are being reported in newspapers every day. The situation is so alarming that issues are being Re discussed by environmentalists and scientists about balancing ecological imbalances. Organizations are becoming aware about the seriousness of these issues and trying to integrate environmental management into their corporate agenda in order to achieve sustainable development and competitive advantage. This paper will discuss green human resource management as a tool to achieve sustainable development on the basis of existing literature available on green Human Resource Management. An Exploratory Research design is used for the study. Papers published on green human resource management from Research gate and Google Scholar have been reviewed to achieve the aim of this study. Findings of the Study revealed that Green Human Resource Management is an effective tool for achieving Sustainable development. It will make employees and society members aware of the utilization of natural resources efficiently and economically.
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Reshma Patnam. "Impact of online rating & reviews in making purchasing decisions". Journal of Management and Science 11, nr 4 (31.12.2021): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/jms.11.34.
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Increasing pollution from industries, scarce availability of resources in the economy, high consumption of natural resources creating urge to concern about the environment. These issues are being reported in newspapers every day. The situation is so alarming that issues are being Re discussed by environmentalists and scientists about balancing ecological imbalances. Organizations are becoming aware about the seriousness of these issues and trying to integrate environmental management into their corporate agenda in order to achieve sustainable development and competitive advantage. This paper will discuss green human resource management as a tool to achieve sustainable development on the basis of existing literature available on green Human Resource Management. An Exploratory Research design is used for the study. Papers published on green human resource management from Research gate and Google Scholar have been reviewed to achieve the aim of this study. Findings of the Study revealed that Green Human Resource Management is an effective tool for achieving Sustainable development. It will make employees and society members aware of the utilization of natural resources efficiently and economically.
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Halynska, Yuliia. "Strategic view on the rental policy in the field of environmental management". Problems and Perspectives in Management 16, nr 1 (15.01.2018): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.16(1).2018.01.
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The article proposes to consider a “new view” on the necessary changes in the rental policy in the field of environmental management. The main stages of the rental policy have been identified and analyzed, such as transformation of socio-economic relations; role of state regulation of the rental policy. Nowadays, in a context of transformation of rental policy and socio-economic relations, state administration should form social values through the environmental use and consumption of resources and implement a saving policy on the natural resource extraction. With the help of the implementation of the collaboration mechanism, the interests of the parties to the collaborative alliance regarding the redistribution of rental income received from the natural resource extraction may be taken into account.In addition, attention was focused on the necessity of optimal distribution of rental income from the extraction of natural resources in the conditions of the collaborative alliance. The research showed that the convergence of interests in the system “state – society – fuel production enterprise” is today the priority form of cooperation in order to form the socio-environmental responsibility in the extraction and use of natural resources, to motivate behavior of the local community with the support of the scientific and expert group on the redistribution of part of the rental income on restoration and development of the territories, as well as to implement a saving policy on the use and consumption of resources in order to preserve them for future generations.
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Pomoni, Dimitra I., Maria K. Koukou, Michail Gr Vrachopoulos i Labros Vasiliadis. "A Review of Hydroponics and Conventional Agriculture Based on Energy and Water Consumption, Environmental Impact, and Land Use". Energies 16, nr 4 (8.02.2023): 1690. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16041690.
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The increasing demand for food, the lack of natural resources and arable land, and the recent restrictions on energy consumption require an immediate solution in terms of agricultural activities. This paper’s objective was to review hydroponics (a new soilless cultivation technology) and compare it with conventional agriculture (soil cultivation) regarding its environmental impact and water and energy consumption. The soil loss, the crop/soil contamination, and the greenhouse gas emissions were the criteria for the environmental comparison of conventional agriculture and hydroponics. As for resource consumption, the water consumption rates (L/kg), energy consumption rates (kWh), and energy required (kW) were the criteria for comparing conventional agriculture with hydroponics. Tomato and cannabis cultivation were used as case studies in this review. The review results showed that the advantages of hydroponics over conventional cultivation include zero-soil cultivation, land-use efficiency, planting environment cleanliness, fertilizer and resource saving, water consumption reduction, and conservation. The disadvantages of hydroponics versus conventional cultivation were found to include the high investment costs, technical know-how requirements, and higher amount of demanded energy.
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Scheel, Carlos, Eduardo Aguiñaga i Bernardo Bello. "Decoupling Economic Development from the Consumption of Finite Resources Using Circular Economy. A Model for Developing Countries". Sustainability 12, nr 4 (11.02.2020): 1291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12041291.
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Sustainable development is a major concern for developing and developed economies as economic growth has to led to scarcer and more expensive resources. Although countries have established public policies focusing on resource and energy efficiency, there is an increasing need for a coordinated industrial strategy able to create sustainable wealth through a holistic management of natural resources, capable of “decoupling” economic growth from resource extraction and natural deterioration. Consequently, the objective of the present research is to develop a decoupling model able to create increasing economic returns, reducing the social gap and regenerating the natural capital for regions in developing countries. Departing from a literature review on peer reviewed articles on successful industrial cases of decoupling around the world, we contrasted the linear production model with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)’s current four decoupling indicators in order to propose a more robust model. The result was an eight-factor decoupling model that used a well-supported framework for sustainable wealth creation named “circular value ecosystem” (CVES). By using system dynamics, we deployed the proposed framework using system dynamics modeling in order to improve the understanding of our proposal. We found that this model, with the proper regional conditions in developing countries, can: (1) reduce, through substitution, the consumption of natural resources; (2) produce alternative economic increasing returns; (3) reduce the negative environmental impacts; and (4) create self-sustainable wealth for the economy, the environment, and the social development of most stakeholders of these regions. Decoupling economic growth represents a complex and challenging task whose successful implementation can only be achieved if managed at a regional level with a systemic approach.
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Shulgin, A. G., i S. G. Shulgin. "Investments in the infrastructure of Siberia and the Far East. Macroeconomic analysis based on general equilibrium model". Journal of the New Economic Association 49, nr 1 (2021): 81–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.31737/2221-2264-2021-49-1-3.
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We have developed a general equilibrium model that belongs to the class of real business cycle models of a small open economy exporting natural resources, which allows us to take into account the impact of investments in infrastructure projects. The model was calibrated to perform deterministic simulation of the investments project of the new railway construction and associated enterprises for the extraction and primary processing of natural resources in Siberia and the Far East. We use the information available before 2018. By 2050, the contribution of the infrastructure project, with a total size of 2.3% of GDP, to GDP growth is estimated at 4.0%, and the largest contribution of 2.7% of GDP is made by the growth of natural resource exports by 31.6 billion US dollars. 29.4 billion US dollars import increase and 7.2% consumption increase are due to the 5.4% of real ruble appreciation by 2050. The long-term equivalent consumption variation of the project is estimated as 8.36% a year. The project leads to an exacerbation of the Dutch disease of the Russian economy: the country’s specialization in the production and export of natural resources increases, imports increase, exports of other goods decrease, consumption increases, currency appreciates, and labor supply decreases.