Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of'decoupling'; that is,
they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and …

This contribution presents the state of the art of economy‐wide material flow accounting.
Starting from a brief recollection of the intellectual and policy history of this approach, we …

This paper examines the effects of environmental innovation on carbon dioxide emissions in
the EU-27 countries between 1992 and 2014. We utilize the Generalized Method of …

Despite the high commitments of the European Union (EU) member countries toward
achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), on average, the region has reportedly …

This paper provides a new indicator for environmental assessment performance linked to
Circular Economy. Almost all existing techniques evaluate resource use based on their …

In recent years, attempts have been made to develop an integrated Footprint approach for
the assessment of the environmental impacts of production and consumption. In this paper …

The interconnection of urbanization trends and environmental pressures, are due to the
rising demand for resource consumption, waste production and greenhouses gas …

There are three main arguments why developed countries should consider managing
without growth. First, continued economic growth worldwide is not an option, owing to …

The extractable ores of the world's geologically scarcest mineral resources (eg antimony,
molybdenum and zinc) may be exhausted within several decades to a century, if their …

Over the last two million years, humans have colonized almost the entire biosphere on
Earth, thereby creating socio‐ecological systems in which fundamental patterns and …