Les défis énergétiques pour un développement durable: comment éviter l’effondrement ?

Gaël Giraud

Revue d’économie du développement, 2015, vol. 23, issue 3, 5-18

Abstract: Energy is a much more substantial input to economic growth than what is acknowledged by conventional approaches in macro-economics. This issue is all the more challenging that several weak signals suggest that, in a number of Southern countries, time is pressing to escape from poverty and prepare their populations to the forthcoming damages, induced by the coupling of natural resources depletion and climate change. Unless we experience an in-depth bifurcation towards circular economies, the perspective of a collapse of Southern societies and durable impoverishment of Northern countries can no more be excluded.

Keywords: energy; sustainable development; depletion; peak oil; collapse; EROI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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