More Productive, Less Sustainable? On the Need to Consider Material Resource Flows

Anke Schaffartzik (), Dominik Wiedenhofer () and Marina Fischer-Kowalski ()
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Anke Schaffartzik: Institute of Social Ecology
Dominik Wiedenhofer: Institute of Social Ecology
Marina Fischer-Kowalski: Institute of Social Ecology

Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, 2016, vol. 51, issue 4, 200-204

Abstract: Abstract In environmental policymaking, the figurative cake that is wanted both to have and eat lies in achieving dematerialisation, i.e. reducing material resource use, and simultaneously pursuing a pathway lined with economic growth. Under such a scenario, we could have it all: increasing production and international convergence at the highest levels of consumption with a reduced impact on the environment in a lifestyle which could also be enjoyed by generations to come. In the following, we make a case for considering the evidence in contemplating the feasibility of such a utopia by taking social metabolism i.e. the material and energy input of society, into account.

Date: 2016
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