Development Patterns of Material Productivity Convergence or Divergence? /

Increasing concerns regarding the world’s natural resources and sustainability continue to be a major issue for global development. As a result several political initiatives and strategies for green or resource-efficient growth both on national and international levels have been proposed. A core ele...

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Main Author: Talmon-Gros, Larissa. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Contributions to Economics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02538-4
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Overuse, Scarcity and the Debate About Sustainable Development -- The Relationship Between Technological Progress and Material Consumption -- Convergence - Theory, Econometrics and Empirics -- Material Productivity Measurement -- Empirical Evidence on the Development of Material Consumption and Material Productivity -- Research Question -- Data and Descriptive Statistics -- Examination of Material Productivity Convergence -- Discussion -- Conclusion. 
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