Category Archives: Journals
New article: Raw Material Equivalents of International Trade
This new article, co-authored by Stefan Giljum [...] and published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, estimates the material flows required along the whole production chains of imports and exports for selected Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. These indirect material flows (also called “ecological rucksacks”) of imports and exports are calculated as
Employment and Environment in a Sustainable Europe
Hinterberger, F., Omann, I. & Stocker, A. (2002)
In: Empirica, 29, 113-130. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Environmental policy faces major challenges in Europe. The European Treaties require an integration of environmental, economic and social policies in order to allow for a Sustainable Development. This is of special importance for the link between environmental and employment policy. [...]
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer ökologisch-sozialen Entwicklung – Ergebnisse einer Szenario-Simulation
Hinterberger, F. & Omann, I. (2000)
In: Perspektivends 17. Jg. 2000/Heft 2, S. 21-32.
In diesem Beitrag wird ein sozio-ökologisches Szenario für Deutschland dargestellt und anhand dreier Gleichungen bezüglich der Wirkung auf das Wirtschaftswachstum, die Beschäftigung und den Ressourcenverbrauch analysiert. [...]
The material basis of the global economy – Worldwide patterns of natural resource extraction and their implications for sustainable resource use policies
Behrens, A., Giljum, S., Kovanda, J. & Niza, S. (2007)
In: Ecological Economics 64 (2007) 444-453.
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Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade
Eisenmenger, N. & Giljum, S. (2006)
In: A. Hornborg and C.L. Crumley (Eds.). The World System and the Earth System. Global Socio-Environmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic. Left Coast Press Inc.: Walnut Creek, California. 288-302.
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Ecological sustainability or regional metabolisms: Material flow analyses of the regions of Hamburg, Vienna and Leipzig
Hammer, M., Giljum, S., Luks, F. & Winkler, M. (2006)
In: Natur und Kultur, 7 (2), 62-78.
The paper describes the material consumption in the regions of Hamburg and Leipzig for the years 1992-2001 and for the region of Vienna for the years 1995-2003. Applying the method of material flow analysis, the total consumption of [...]
Designing an indicator of environmental responsibility
Rodrigues, J., Domingos, T., Giljum, S. & Schneider, F. (2006)
In: Ecological Economics 59 (3), 256-266.
When an environmental problem involves several agents, different environmental indicators can be chosen. In this paper we derive axiomatically an indicator of “environmental responsibility”, the quantitative contribution of each agent to the environmental problem. This indicator must possess properties [...]
Beyond the simple material balance: A reply to Sangwong Suh’s note on physical input-output analysis
Giljum, S., Hubacek, K. & Sun, L. (2004)
In: Ecological Economics 48 (1), 19-22.
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Environmental governance in the European Union: Strategies and instruments for absolute decoupling
Giljum, S., Hak, T., Hinterberger, F. & Kovanda, J. (2005)
In: International Journal for Sustainable Development, 8(1/2), 31-46.
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