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Implications of a persistent low growth path – A Scenario Analysis
Pirgmaier, E., Stocker, A. and Hinterberger F. (2010)
This paper provides the starting point of an ongoing research project that analyses the macroeconomic implications (on employment, consumption, income, public finances, resource use, CO2-emissions etc.) of a persistent low-growth path for the Austrian economy and society.
A persistent decline in economic growth has not yet been [...]
Resource Efficiency in developing and emerging economies
SERI´s research group “Sustainable Resource Use” investigates the use of natural resources on which our societies are built. Some of the central concerns in this field include differences in extraction, consumption, trade and efficiency across different countries and world regions.
The basis of much of our work in this field is the website www.materialflows.net, an online portal for material flow data providing easy access to global data on resource extraction for more than 200 countries and the time period of 1980 to 2008, aggregated into 12 categories of material flows. The website is based on the first comprehensive and worldwide database on global resource extraction, set up and administrated by SERI in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy.
Resource Use and Resource Efficiency in Africa
This study provides the first comparative assessment of material consumption and material productivity in Africa. Commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD ), this study reviews current trends and distributions of resource consumption and developments of resource productivity over the past 28 years across Africa.
Resource Use and Resource Efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
This study provides a comparative assessment of material consumption and material productivity in 30 selected countries covering Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Independent States (NIS) in the Caucasus and Central Asia between 1995 and 2008. It was also commissioned by UNIDO. To facilitate comparison, the region was divided into three geographical groups: New EU Member States (NMS), South East Europe (SEE) and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA).
Resource Use and Resource Efficiency in Emerging Economies
This study examines patterns and trends in resource use and resource efficiency in 16 emerging economies in Africa, Asia and Latin America between 1985 and 2005. It was also commissioned by UNIDO under the “Green Industry” Programme.
Book presentation: Growth in Transition
On 29 February, the book presentation of Growth in Transition will take place at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels. The book was edited by SERI researchers Fritz Hinterberger and Elke Pirgmaier [...] in collaboration with Elisabeth Freytag and Martina Schuster from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
EURA Conference 2012
The EURA Conference 2012 will take place in Vienna from 20th to 22nd September.
Cities are both drivers of economic, technological and organisational development and the places of remarkable social change. The conference “Urban Europe – Challenges to Meet the Urban Future” reflects the actual urban situations and the main challenges and outlines outcomes and [...]
