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Journal articles on the topic "Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures":

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Robinson, Reviewed by Priscilla. "Cents and Sustainability: Securing our Economic Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures." Australian Journal of Primary Health 17, no. 3 (2011): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pyv17n3_br1.

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Chovancová, Jana, and Juraj Tej. "Decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions: the case of the energy sector in V4 countries." Equilibrium 15, no. 2 (June 24, 2020): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/eq.2020.011.

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Research background: The production and use of energy satisfies human needs, but also gives rise to a host of adverse environmental pressures, such as air pollution and waste generation. The issue of energy efficiency and climate chance resonates in the energy sector as one of the main producers of green-house gas emissions (GHG). While the European Union in general is doing well in reducing emissions and increasing the share of renewables, unfortunately, there are countries that are still far from reaching their goal. Purpose of the article: The paper is focused on the quantitative assessment of the link between the economic growth of the energy sector and the production of GHG emissions by the energy sector in V4 countries during the period 1995–2016. For this purpose, decoupling analysis will be realized. Methods: The decoupling of economic growth and the environmental pressures caused by this growth has a rich tradition within the sustainable development literature. The decoupling method was chosen for its ability to link economic and environmental indicators. Decoupling elasticity will be calculated with the aim of assessing the relationship between the economic growth of the energy sector (measured in GVA) and GHG emissions produced by the energy sector in V4 countries within the research period. Decoupling elasticity indicates different forms of the decoupling and coupling of the two variables. Findings & Value added: The results of the analysis suggest the prevailing strong decoupling of the economic growth of the energy sector and GHG emissions produced by the energy sector, which can be considered a positive trend. The findings of this paper are relevant for the government, state and public institutions and stakeholders in general, who play important roles in the preparation of programs, projects and policies to make energy generation, transport and use more efficient and environmentally sustainable.
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Siping, Ji, Lv Wendai, Meng Liu, Yang Xiangjun, Yang Hongjuan, Chuan Yongming, Chen Haiyun, Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, and Bashir Ahmad. "Decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth based on emissions monetization: Case in Yunnan, China." Journal of Cleaner Production 208 (January 2019): 1563–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.218.

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Yang, Zhen, Weijun Gao, and Jiawei Li. "Can Economic Growth and Environmental Protection Achieve a “Win–Win” Situation? Empirical Evidence from China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 16 (August 10, 2022): 9851. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169851.

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Achieving a “win–win” situation regarding economic growth and environmental protection has become a common goal for sustainable development in all countries around the world. As the world’s largest developing country and the second largest economy, China has been striving to maintain economic growth while improving environmental quality to achieve its sustainable development goals. Applying the decoupling approach, a model widely used to quantify the relationship between the environment and the economy, this study analyzed the relationship between the economy and the environment, examining the decoupling performance of economic growth and environmental impacts in 30 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities to investigate whether economic growth and environmental protection have achieved a “win–win” situation. Nighttime light (NTL) data were used to measure the performance of economic growth. In addition, an environmental pressure index (EPI) assessment framework covering 6 primary and 11 secondary indicators was constructed to measure the environmental quality of China over time. First, NTL data proved to be a valid data source for assessing decoupling performance; second, environmental pressure at both the national and provincial levels significantly decreased during the study period; third, the relationship between the economy and the environment has been further improved, and economic growth and environmental protection have achieved a “win–win” situation. These findings offer an in-depth analysis of the decoupling of the economy and the environment in China and serve as a guide for future implementation strategies for sustainable development in various regions.
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Hall, Ralph P. "Book Review: Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures." Journal of Planning Education and Research 32, no. 2 (May 7, 2012): 240–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x11436364.

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Bai, Wei Nan, Qi Qiao, Yang Yao, Qi Hong Sun, Yu Yan Song, and Yang Xu. "An Analysis of Decoupling of Economic Development and Environmental Pressure Based on the Park Level: A Case of TEDA." Applied Mechanics and Materials 522-524 (February 2014): 1831–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.522-524.1831.

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Based on the decoupling elasticity model, an analysis is carried out on decoupling relationships between GDP and indicators of resource consumptions and pollutant emissions in Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA). Decoupling elastic coefficients (DECs) of GDP and energy consumption & water usage for nine years (2003-2011) along with the counterparts between GDP and emissions of COD & SO2 for six years (2006-2010), are calculated respectively. The results are as follows: first, the overall trends between development of GDP and intensity of resource consumptions and pollutant emissions per unit of GDP turn out to be almost perfect decoupling relationships. Second, the DECs of GDP and total energy consumption (TEC), along with weak or better decoupling in 6 of 7 years, displays in good condition from 2005 to 2011 and the ones of GDP and total water usage (TWU) improves a lot, compared to the period of 2004-2007, with a more favorable form of strong or weak decoupling during the period of 2008-2011. Third, strong (40%) or weak (60%) decoupling are witnessed among all the DECs between GDP and COD & SO2 for five years from 2006 to 2010. It is concluded that construction of eco-industrial park, the main practice of industrial ecology and theory of circular economy, accompanied with circulating fluidized transformation, is powerful driving force for TEDA to realize decoupling relationships between economic growth and environmental pressures and can contribute to achievement of decoupling at bigger level, country or regions.
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Junissov, A., A. Bekaliyev, A. Adamov, and S. G. Poulopoulos. "Evaluation of decoupling of GDP and energy in Central Asia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 899, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/899/1/012029.

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Abstract Currently, economic growth remains the main criterion of development. However, it does come along with threats to the environment, due to its link to the increased energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Decoupling can be used to break this link and stop jeopardizing the environment in the favor of economic progress. This paper focuses on the decoupling between economic growth and energy consumption in each of five Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – from 1990 to 2014. The Tapio decoupling model was implemented in order to determine the decoupling states for each country. Gross domestic product (GDP) was used to represent the economic growth, and the total primary energy supply (TPES) described the environmental pressure. These data were obtained from the IKE World Energy Balances. Both the GDP and the TPES of most of the Central Asian countries had a parabolic trend of initial drop and further increase during the timespan analyzed. This observation can be explained by the collapse of USSR and the transition to market economy. The results of the decoupling analysis can be divided into two stages for Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and into three stages for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, with several different decoupling states observed during each stage. According to the results, the main decoupling states in Central Asia were expansive negative decoupling, expansive coupling, weak decoupling, and strong decoupling. The analysis showed that there is a serious environmental pressure on the economic development in Central Asia.
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Yu, Yadong, Dingjiang Chen, Bing Zhu, and Shanying Hu. "Eco-efficiency trends in China, 1978–2010: Decoupling environmental pressure from economic growth." Ecological Indicators 24 (January 2013): 177–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.06.007.

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Ji, Yanli, and Jie Xue. "Decoupling Effect of County Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth in China: Empirical Evidence from Jiangsu Province." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 6 (March 10, 2022): 3275. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063275.

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Under the pressure of low-carbon development at county level in China, this paper takes Jiangsu province as an example to analyze the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions, aiming to provide a reference for the low-carbon development in Jiangsu and other regions in China. Based on the county-level panel data from 2000 to 2017, this paper uses the Tapio elasticity model and environmental Kuznets curve model, and focuses on the differences in regional economic development and the impacts of the 2008 global economic crisis. The results show that, in general, the decoupling effect of carbon emissions in Jiangsu counties has gradually increased during the study period. Since 2011, all counties achieved the speed decoupling, with more than half of them showing strong decoupling. The environmental Kuznets curves of carbon emissions in different income groups are established, and changed before and after the 2008 global economic crisis. In 2017, only 10 of the 53 counties were on the right side of the curve, realizing the quantity decoupling between the two. Therefore, to achieve a win–win situation between carbon emission reduction and economic growth, efforts should be made from the aspects of industrial structure and energy efficiency, and measures should be taken according to local conditions.
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Guan, Shuai, Qi Liao, Wenjun Wu, Chuan Yi, and Yueming Gao. "Revealing the Coupling Relationship between the Gross Ecosystem Product and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Hubei Province." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (June 21, 2022): 7546. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14137546.

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The question of how to balance rapid economic growth with ecosystem pressures has become a key issue in recent years. Using the Tapio decoupling model, the spatial autocorrelation model, and the LMDI decomposition model, we analyzed the spatiotemporal variation in gross ecosystem product (GEP) in Hubei Province, studied the relationship between GEP and economic growth, and analyzed the driving factors of GEP variation. The results show that, during the period 2010–2019, the decoupling coefficient between GEP and economic growth in Hubei Province gradually decreased, while the decoupling relationship changed from weak decoupling to strong decoupling; this change is reflected not only in the decoupling index values of various cities but also in the number of changing cities, so this negative change should attract the attention of policy-makers. In addition, there is a significant local spatial autocorrelation in Hubei Province, mainly distributed in the northwest and southwest of the province, and the trend is becoming increasingly obvious. As the decoupling trend is negative, it is necessary to pay attention to local autocorrelation changes, especially in highly correlated cities, and take action to prevent the further exacerbation of such decoupling to maintain healthy economic and social development. Regarding the driving factors of GEP changes in Hubei Province, cities with strong decoupling and those with weak decoupling have certain differences, and different types of decoupling cities need to adopt different strategies to alleviate pressure on the ecological environment. Cities with a weak decoupling need to address the problem of pollutant emissions associated with industrial upgrading and the positive impact of scientific and technological innovation on the ecological environment. Cities with strong decoupling should not only address pollutant discharge but also improve the area of ecological land. From the perspective of urban development, the high-quality development trend of Wuhan, Yichang, Xiantao, Qianjiang, Xianning, and other cities shows a continuous trend of improvement. Ezhou, Jingzhou, Shennongjia, and other cities need to guard against the loss of ecosystems caused by economic growth.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures":

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Kovalský, Pavel. "Decoupling vybraných indikátorů zátěže a dopadu na životní prostředí." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-315723.

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7 Abstract The thesis analyses trends of two environmental aspects in spatial terms of the Czech Republic and timal terms since 1993 till 2010. The two aspects are acid deposition as environmental pressure and defoliation of forest crown as environmental impact. Since one aspect is cause of the other the thesis also analyses trends of relationship between these aspects and comapares the results with the concept of decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth. Important findings are that despite huge relative decrease of environmental pressure expressed by acid deposition the decrease of environmental impact expressed by forest crown defoliation is very low. Although decoupling occured during the analyzed period it's not possible to say that linkage between "environmental bads" and "economic goods" was broken. The thesis reveals factors that had influence on these findings. The thesis also compares particular concepts of decoupling being used and provides author's input on which of these concepts suits the best analyzing the breakage of the links between environmental pressure from economic growth in all of its aspects. Key words: sustainable development, sustainability, decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth, acid deposition, defoliation, gross domestic product.
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Smith, Michael Harrison. "Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49387.

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The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic growth from a range of environmental pressures such as greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and natural resource degradation, freshwater extraction, air pollution, waste and hazardous waste. By clearly differentiating between economic and physical growth and focusing on how to achieve significant decoupling this thesis advances the traditional debates and discourses about “growth”. This thesis shows that in theory and practice it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling, and thus environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining economic growth. This thesis examines the relative costs of inaction versus action on decoupling, concluding that the costs of inaction significantly outweigh the costs of action. It also examines whether a transition to environmental sustainabilty will lead to net job losses or gains, showing that, with effective policy, it can result in net employment gains. As such, this thesis provides a new integration to show that it is possible to reconcile the need to simultaneously achieve environmental sustainability, economic growth and job creation. This result has important implications for other important sustainability debates such as the climate change debates. These are explored in detail in this thesis. This thesis also demonstrates that many social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health –correlate strongly with improved economic growth. Thus this thesis demonstrates that it is possible to create a new form of economic growth that is also environmentally and socially sustainable as called for in the seminal text on sustainable development "Our Common Future" in 1987. Finally, this thesis is a formal defense of and contribution to the academic field of ecological modernization which has hypothesized that it is possible to simultaneously pursue environmental sustainability, social justice and economic growth in ways that mutually re-enforce each other. This thesis provides significant evidence to support this central tenet of ecological modernisation. The research of this thesis has helped inform and contribute to several international book publications all of which show nations how to achieve significant decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures such as Cents and Sustainability:Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures (Earthscan, 2010). Note: This thesis was submitted in April 2006 and was awarded in September 2009.

Books on the topic "Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures":

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Desha, Cheryl, Charlie Hargroves, and Michael Harrison Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Desha, Cheryl, Charlie Hargroves, and Michael Harrison Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Desha, Cheryl, Charlie Hargroves, and Michael Harrison Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Desha, Cheryl, Charlie Hargroves, and Michael Harrison Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Desha, Cheryl, Charlie Hargroves, and Michael Harrison Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Desha, Cheryl, Charlie Hargroves, and Michael Harrison Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Decoupling the Environmental Impacts of Transport from Economic Growth. Organization for Economic, 2006.

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Decoupling the Environmental Impacts of Transport from Economic Growth. OECD, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264027138-en.

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Nations, United. Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth. United Nations, 2011.

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de Saille, Stevienna, Fabien Medvecky, Michiel Van Oudheusden, Kevin Albertson, Effie Amanatidou, Timothy Birabi, and Mario Pansera. Responsibility Beyond Growth. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529208177.001.0001.

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Innovation is generally considered to be the antidote to economic stagnation. But while the coupling of ‘responsible' and 'innovation’ has been much discussed, that of 'responsible stagnation' has gone largely unexplored. In this book, we take this concept seriously as a means to question the political economy of science, technology and innovation, both as policy and as process, and the problems which arise from unquestioned emphasis on innovation as the means to increase GDP. The book argues that examining what 'responsible stagnation' might contribute opens new space in the growing global discussion about RI, incorporating innovation in non-market oriented processes, goods and services which have strong societal benefit but do not necessarily contribute to GDP. It examines the conundrum of diminishing productivity returns and increased environmental and social hazards associated with attempts to increase GDP, and how taking a growth-agnostic approach contributes to recalibrating innovation around responsibility as its focal point. Drawing on insights from ecological and steady state economics, Science and Technology Studies, and social innovation across the world, this interdisciplinary group of scholars questions how the growth paradigm shapes and limits the innovation space, and how decoupling innovation from growth points toward myriad possibilities for facilitating human well-being in more environmentally and socially responsible ways.

Book chapters on the topic "Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures":

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Somani, Zafir. "Decoupling of Economic Growth from Environmental Degradation." In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 225–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95867-5_27.

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Somani, Zafir. "Decoupling of Economic Growth from Environmental Degradation." In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 1–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_27-1.

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"Decoupling economic growth from pollution: Tan Loc Food, Vietnam." In Environmental Management Accounting, 243–56. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203125366-23.

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Norton, Bryan G. "The Pressures of Growth." In Toward Unity among Environmentalists. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195093971.003.0012.

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Critics of environmentalism have often charged that the movement is “elitist.” By this is meant, among other complaints, that environmentalists are mainly members of the middle and upper classes who have achieved a comfortable level of economic well-being and who want to “lock up” natural resources, discourage economic growth, and withhold upwardly mobile job opportunities from less privileged economic groups in the society. Environmentalists, of course, dispute this criticism, arguing that it is unsupported by any reasonable interpretation of either environmentalists’ goals or the socioeconomic data. Nevertheless, the criticism strikes a sensitive nerve. It is interesting that the charge is directed at environmentalists, a majority of whom are liberals or progressives, both from the right, which claims environmental regulations choke off economic opportunities, and from the left, which argues that skirmishes over resource policy represent just one more episode in the ongoing war between the classes. What is undeniable is that the growth issue is the most difficult one facing environmentalists today. Here is a real dilemma. If environmentalists embrace economic growth in America, they apparently embrace endless sprawl, boom towns, high energy use, degradation of watersheds and wetlands, more chemicals—evils without end. If they oppose growth, however, they appear to favor unemployment, reduced wages, and economic stagnation. About growth, the dilemma encourages ambivalence and waffling: In 1977, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund published The Unfinished Agenda: The Citizen’s Guide to Environmental Issues, which emphasized a need for “a major transformation in human values” and argued that the United States has “enjoyed a development that is no longer possible for most [nations].” The United States must, the report urges, aid in “the transition from abundance to scarcity” and provide examples of how, “in a ‘Conserver Society,’ quality of life can be preserved (and, for many, increased) in an era of scarcity.” In the years since the Reagan antiregulatory revolution, however, environmentalists have also emphasized the importance of economic growth in achieving environmental goals. In a 1985 agenda document (environmentalists love to compose agendas), the Group of Ten (chief executive officers of ten leading environmental organizations) said: “Continued economic growth is essential.
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Lord, Elizabeth. "China’s Eco-Dream and the Making of Invisibilities in Rural-Environmental Research." In Can Science and Technology Save China?, 115–38. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747021.003.0006.

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This chapter starts from the premise that technologies of knowing the environment are molded by broader political and societal contexts. Just as “science” is never singular, but rather an ever-changing product of personal commitments, institutional struggles, and historical legacies, environmental research, data, and methods that are never dryly environmental. It focuses on the production of environmental knowledge as an explicitly political process, one that is in constant conversation with institutional, ideological, and economic forces. Examining environmental knowledge production is important because China's green dream reaches the population unevenly and builds on inequalities to realize itself. The chapter identifies key parameters that regulate rural-environmental research. These include pressures to prioritize economic growth over environmental protection, the commercialization of academia, governmental controls of what is considered acceptable or unacceptable research, as well as limitations on fieldwork access. The chapter also details how economic and political parameters bound environmental research in specific ways.
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van Eeten, Michel J. G., and Emery Roe. "The Paradox Introduced: Concepts and Cases." In Ecology, Engineering, and Management. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195139686.003.0005.

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To recapitulate, the hard paradox is this: how do you improve ecological functions and related human services at the same time, if not everywhere then at least over the ecosystem and landscape as a whole? How do decision makers meet the twofold recoupling goal: (1) where they are managing for reliable ecosystem services, they would also be improving the associated ecosystem functions, and/or (2) where they are managing for improved ecosystem functions, they would also be better ensuring the reliability of the ecosystem services associated with those functions. In short, how do decision makers recouple ecosystem functions and services that over time have been decoupled to their detriment? A set of terms have just been introduced that require explanation. The terms “recoupling,” “decoupling,” and, by implication, “coupling” are central to the arguments of our book and are formalized more fully in later chapters. (The controversial terms, “functions” and “services,” are discussed in the next section.) Basically, the literature uses the former terms to refer to biophysical connections, organizational connections, or both. An example of the first is Ausubel (1996, pp. 1, 7, 8), who notes that agricultural modernization has meant “food decoupled from acreage” through the production of more crops on less land. Advances in science and technology “increasingly decouple our goods and services from the demands on planetary resources.” Ausubel adds that we can expect “further decoupling [of] food from land. For more green occupations, today’s farmers might become tomorrow’s park rangers and ecosystem guardians. In any case, the rising yields, spatial contraction of agriculture, and sparing of land are a powerful antidote to the current losses of biodiversity and related environmental ills.” Opschoor (1995) speaks of a similar technological phenomenon, “delinking,” where rising incomes are decoupled over time from intensive material use. Also, the third Dutch national environmental policy plan seeks as one of its goals the decoupling of economic growth from environmental pollution (Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment 1998). These uses of “decoupling” all refer to the relation between services and environmental degradation. We, on the other hand, are talking about the relation between services and environmental assets, that is, ecosystem functions.
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McKercher, Bob, and Bruce Prideaux. "Sustainability." In Tourism Theories, Concepts and Models. Goodfellow Publishers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911635352-4730.

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During the early 1980s, it became apparent that major global environmental changes were occurring suddenly and silently and were only beginning to be recognized as an emerging threat by the global scientific community. Scholars and an increasing number of citizens became aware that there was a growing element of uncertainty and risk from human activities on global environments The establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and endorsed later by the General Assembly of the United Nations was a major step in focusing the global community’s attention to the problem. At that time, moderate environmentalists were wrestling with the idea that we can live in a world where economic development and economic pressures for both developing and developed countries would continue. Short- term pressures to develop national economies (along with the social benefits that derive from it) were considered by policy makers to outweigh long-term potential impacts from that development process. In other words, we failed to ask the question of how can a sustainable economy be developed that integrates both industrial and ecological needs? More recently, advocates of degrowth suggest a more radical change to how the global economy functions. While it is unrealistic to suggest that the solution to our environmental woes would be to wind back the global economy, growing concerns about sea level rise, ecosystem collapse and the emergence of other global ecological crises challenge the idea that it is possible to promote economic growth while maintaining environmental protection. This chapter explores a range of issues related to sustainable development in general and sustainable tourism in particular. It begins with an overview of the concept of sustainable development before moving onto a discussion of sustainable tourism. The chapter then discusses the range of models and concepts that have been developed to monitor asustainability.

Conference papers on the topic "Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures":

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Umeda, Yasushi, Akira Nonomura, and Tetsuo Tomiyama. "A Study on the Life Cycle Simulation for the Post Mass Production Paradigm." In ASME 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece1998-1054.

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Abstract The environmental issues require a new manufacturing paradigm, because they are caused inevitably by the current mass production and mass consumption paradigm. This paper proposes a new manufacturing paradigm called the “Post Mass Production Paradigm (PMPP).” PMPP advocates sustainable production by decoupling economic growth from material and energy consumption. For examining feasibility of PMPP, this paper describes a life cycle simulation tool. Examples of simulation results illustrate that the environmental impacts can be drastically reduced without decreasing profits of a company by executing services of maintenance and reclamation.
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Reid, Michael, and Bernie Cook. "The Application of Smart, Connected Power Plant Assets for Enhanced Condition Monitoring and Improving Equipment Reliability." In ASME 2016 Power Conference collocated with the ASME 2016 10th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2016-59189.

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The U.S. electric utility industry continues to undergo dramatic change due to a number of key trends and also prolonged uncertainty. These trends include: • Increasing environmental regulations uncertainty • Natural gas supply uncertainty and price • Economic / decoupling of electricity demand growth from GDP • Aging coal and nuclear generation fleet / coal retirements • Aging workforce • Increasing distributed energy resources • Increasing customer expectations The transformation ultimately demands significant increases in power plant generation operating capabilities (e.g. flexibility, operating envelop, ramp rates, turn-down etc.) and higher levels of equipment reliability, while reducing O&M and capital budgets. Achieving higher levels of equipment reliability and flexibility, with such tightening budget and resource constraints, requires a very disciplined approach to maintenance and an optimized mix of the following maintenance practices: • Reactive (run-to-failure) • Preventive (time-based) • Predictive (condition-based) • Proactive (combination of 1, 2 and 3 + root cause failure analysis) Many U.S. electric utilities with fossil generation have adopted and implemented elements of an equipment reliability process consistent with Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) AP-913. The Electric Power Research Institute has created a guideline modeled from the learnings of AP-913, that consists of six key sub-processes [1]: 1. Scoping and identification of critical components (identifying system and component criticality) 2. Continuing equipment reliability improvement (establishing and continuously improving system and component maintenance bases) 3. Preventive Maintenance (PM) implementation (implementing the PM program effectively) 4. Performance monitoring (monitoring system and component performance) 5. Corrective action 6. Life cycle management (long-term asset management) A significant proportion of Duke Energy’s coal fleet is of an age where individual components have reached their design intent end-of-life thereby creating an increased need for performance monitoring. Until recent times this was largely performed by maintenance technicians with handheld devices. This approach does not allow regular data collection for trending and optimization of maintenance practices across the fleet. Significant and recent advances in sensor technology, microprocessors, data acquisition, data storage, communication technology, and software have enabled the transformation of critical power plant assets such as steam turbines, combustion turbines, generators, transformers, and large balance-of-plant equipment into smart, connected power plant assets. These enhanced assets, in conjunction with visualization software, provide a comprehensive conditioning monitoring solution that continuously acquires sensory data and performs real time analysis to provide information and insight. This advanced condition monitoring capability has been successfully applied to obtain earlier detection of equipment issues and failures and is key to improving overall equipment reliability. This paper describes an approach by Duke Energy to create and apply smart, connected power plant assets to greatly enhance its fossil generation continuous condition monitoring capabilities. It will discuss the value that is currently being realized and also look at future possibilities to apply big data and analytics to enhance information, insight, and actionable intelligence.

Reports on the topic "Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures":

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Fan, Li, and Veronica Mendizabal Joffre. The Gender Dimension of Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Microsurvey-Based Analysis of Gender Differences in Awareness, Attitudes, and Behaviors in the People’s Republic of China. Asian Development Bank, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps200401-2.

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Using microsurveys conducted in the People’s Republic of China over the past 2 decades, this paper explores the individual preferences among men and women toward sustainable consumption and production—the concept of doing more with less and decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation. The study finds that women exhibit greener living and working habits than men. However, women—regardless of education, rural–urban setting, or age—are impacted by time poverty, low political participation, limited awareness, gender norms, and, for younger and older women, financial limitations. To encourage and increase women’s capacity in shaping environmental solutions, economic and political gender gaps must be addressed and awareness on the impact of consumption needs to be strengthened.

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