RESA

December 2005 – January 2007

Effects of resource savings on environment, employment and economy in Austria“

This project addressed the question, which environmental, economic and employment effects occur if firms increase their investments in resource productivity. Together with the project sponsor and experts fore scenarios were defined, which specify how an increased dematerialization may look like. Afterwards the senarios were simulated until 2020 using a new integrated ecological-economic model for Austria. The results show that resource cost savings may lead to substantial economic improvements and employment increases. However, due to the rebound effect the high efficiency gains do not provide material use savings.

More information is available in German.

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