Category Archives: SERI Working Papers
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 use and resource productivity in Asia: Trends over the past 25 years
Giljum, S., Dittrich, M., Bringezu, S., Polzin, C., Lutter S. (2010)
This working paper provides the first comparative and quantitative assessment of material consumption and resource productivity in Asia between 1985 and 2005. 19 Asian countries were selected for the analysis, together representing more than 90% of GDP in Asia. The study is based on [...]
Resource Use and Resource Efficiency in Emerging Economies: Trends Over the Past 20 Years
Giljum, S., Dittrich, M., Bringezu, S., Polzin, C., Lutter S. (2011)
This Working Paper provides the first comparative and quantitative assessment of material consumption and resource productivity of emerging economies between 1985 and 2005. 16 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America were selected for the analysis. To facilitate comparison, the emerging economies are divided [...]
Global implications of a European environmental tax reform
Giljum, S., Lutz, C. & Polzin, C. (2010)
European production and consumption activities are increasingly dependent on material and energy resources from abroad and imply significant economic and environmental consequences in other regions around the world. While the overall level of resource use in Europe has stabilised over the past 20 years, the source of [...]
A comprehensive set of resource use indicators from the micro to the macro level
Giljum, S., Burger, E., Hinterberger, F. & Lutter, S.
Due to growth of world population, continued high levels of consumption in the developed world, combined with the rapid industrialisation of countries such as China, India and Brazil, worldwide demand on natural resources and related pressures on the environment are steadily increasing. Renewable resources, and the [...]
What about needs? – Re-conceptualising Sustainable Development
Rauschmayer, F., Omann, I., Frühmann, J. & Bohunovsky, L. (2008)
Although the concept of needs is central in the Brundtland definition of Sustainable Development (SD), this concept has hardly been taken up in sustainability science or policy making. And although SD is a concept that nobody really disagrees upon and that is heavily used by [...]
Global dimensions of European natural resource use – First results from the Global Resource Accounting Model (GRAM)
Giljum, S., Lutz, C., Jungnitz, A., Bruckner, M. & Hinterberger, F. (2008)
With increasing international trade in the world economy, the inclusion of indirect (or embodied) natural resources of traded products receives growing importance, when domestic production and consumption patterns are evaluated from the perspective of global sustainable development. In this paper, we present results [...]
The Socio-economic Modelling for the ALARM Project: Process and Results
Stocker, A., Jaeger, J., Meyer, B. & Omann, I. (2007)
The aim of this paper is to identify important socio-economic drivers of biodiversity loss and to analyse their possible political and economic dynamics by modelling socio-economic and environmental parameters of different scenarios, as well as to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the policy options [...]
A Multicriteria tool for Evaluating the Impacts of Product Service Systems on Sustainable Development – An application in Austrian companies
Omann, I. (2007)
The development and implementation of eco-efficient product service systems (PSS) is one company-related step towards sustainable development. Despite several isolated initiatives, PSS have still not been implemented widely. Possible reasons for this failure to disseminate the concept are the lack of appropriate supporting methods and tools for the companies and the lack [...]
Modelling scenarios towards a sustainable use of natural resources in Europe
Giljum, S., Behrens, A., Hinterberger, F., Lutz, C. & Meyer, B. (2007)
The issue of unsustainable patterns of natural resource use currently experiences a steep rise on the policy agenda both in Europe and other world regions. A rapidly increasing body of literature assesses past developments of material use and resource productivities, however, little effort [...]
