Environmental Sustainability and Economy

1st Edition - July 28, 2021
Editors: Pardeep Singh, Pramit Verma, Daniela Perrotti, K.K. Srivastava
Language: English
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Environmental Sustainability and Economy contains the latest practical and theoretical concepts of sustainability science and economic growth. It includes the latest research on sustainable development, the impact of pollution due to economic activities, energy policies and consumption influencing growth and environment, waste management and recycling, circular economy, and climate change impacts on both the environment and the economy. The 21st century has seen the rise of complex and multi-dimensional pathways between different aspects of sustainability. Due to globalization, these relationships now work at varying spatiotemporal scales resulting in global and regional dynamics. This book explores the complex relationship between sustainable development and economic growth, linking the environmental and social aspects with the economic pillar of sustainable development.

Utilizing global case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, Environmental Sustainability and Economy provides a comprehensive account of sustainable development and the economics of environmental protection studies with a focus on the environmental, geographical, economic, anthropogenic and social-ecological environment.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Theme 1. Environment and economy
Chapter 1. The impact of transport infrastructure development on carbon emissions in OECD countries
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical framework
3. Methodology and data
4. Empirical findings and discussions
5. Conclusion and policy implications
Appendix
Chapter 2. Does transport infrastructure development contribute to carbon emissions? Evidence from developing countries
1. Introduction
2. Methodology and data
3. Results and discussions
4. Conclusion and policy suggestions
Appendix
Chapter 3. Interconnecting the environment with economic development of a nation
1. Introduction
2. Role of natural resources and the environment in economic growth
3. The environment and economic growth linkage
4. EKC hypothesis: explaining the relation between environment and economic growth
5. Relating pollution and economy
6. Policy implications
7. Conclusion
Chapter 4. The role of economic institutions in electricity consumption, economic growth, and CO2 emissions linkages: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
1. Introduction
2. Methodology and data
3. Results and discussion
4. Policy analysis
5. Concluding remarks
6. Appendix table
Chapter 5. Linkage between energy use, pollution, and economic growth—a cross-country analysis
1. Introduction
2. Extended literature survey
3. Data source and methodology
4. Theoretical development of elasticity approach to the notion of EKC
5. Results and discussion
6. Concluding remarks and policy prescription
Chapter 6. Environmental pollution and sustainability
1. Introduction
2. Environmental management
3. Sustainability: a practical approach
4. Challenges to environmental sustainability
5. Activities for attaining sustainability
6. Conclusion
Chapter 7. The 2030 agenda and the push for electrification in Africa: a tale of two countries
1. Introduction
2. Conclusion
Theme 2. Indicators and sustainability
Chapter 8. Economic indicators for material recovery estimation
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methodology
4. Applications in practice
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Economic approaches to sustainable development: exploring the conceptual perspective and the indicator initiatives
1. Introduction and objectives
2. Economic approaches to sustainable development
3. Natural resources: how to classify?
4. Models of economic regulation and greening of international trade
5. Environmental economics and ecological economics: a vision of sustainability resource
6. Enhancing economic sustainability: improvement of indicator approaches
7. Sustainability indicators and economic indicators issue to SD management
8. Final remarks and the way forward
Chapter 10. Modeling methods for the assessment of the ecological impacts of road maintenance sites
1. Introduction
2. Road maintenance
3. Traffic simulation
4. Pollution
5. Modeling approaches
6. Application
7. Conclusions
Theme 3. Circular economy and urban metabolism
Chapter 11. Earth, wood, and coffee: empirical evidence on value creation in the circular economy
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Analytical framework
4. Case studies
5. Discussion of results
6. Conclusion
Chapter 12. A story of resilience and local materials: sourcing bio-based materials in Norman wetlands, France
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Appendices
Chapter 13. Consequential life cycle assessment to promote the recycling of metallurgic slag as new construction material
1. Introduction
2. Consequential versus attributional approach
3. Consequential LCA of SSS blocks production
4. Conclusions
Theme 4. Market and sustainability
Chapter 14. Material and energy services, human needs, and well-being
1. Introduction
2. Defining human needs
3. Material services
4. Integrating materials services to the Theory of Human Needs framework
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Chapter 15. Assessment of mechanisms and instruments of climate finance: a global perspective
1. Introduction
2. From climate change to climate finance: an overview
3. Organizations and their roles
4. Instruments
5. Flows from developed countries to developing countries
6. Challenges ahead
Chapter 16. Green economy and sustainable development: a macroeconomic perspective
1. Introduction
2. Introduction to sustainable development
3. Definition of a green economy
4. Green economy from a macroeconomic perspective
5. Green economy and sustainable development
6. Green accounting
7. Toward a green economy—cross-country experience
8. Concluding remarks
Chapter 17. Challenges and opportunities at the crossroads of Environmental Sustainability and Economy research
1. Introduction
2. Environment and economy
3. Indicators and sustainability
4. Circular economy and urban metabolism
5. Market and sustainability
6. Conclusion and common challenges across the four themes
Index

Pardeep Singh

Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. Dr. Singh has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the fields of waste management, environmental pollution, and agricultural nanotechnology, and has co-edited 30 books.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Pramit Verma

Dr. Pramit Verma is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He completed his PhD from the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2021. He is currently working in the field of Urban Ecology. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles and a technical report while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. He is also working on the socioeconomic dynamics governing urban energy and urban land use in secondary cities of India.

Affiliations and expertise

Postdoc Fellow, Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium

Daniela Perrotti

Daniela Perrotti is Professor of Landscape at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Her research is an inquiry into the potential of urban metabolism theory and models to advance evidence-based understanding of the relations that urban communities establish with natural resources. Her work positions itself distinctively in the urban metabolism scientific landscape by operating along two novel lines of research. The first provides a critical revision of the ‘urban metabolism’ paradigm through more robust interdisciplinary methods that can favour an ‘agentic understanding’ of metabolic processes and deeper descriptions of society-nature relations in cities. The second line operationalises the first by concentrating on the establishment of more comprehensive metabolic knowledge frameworks to analyse the links between the biophysical foundations of socioeconomic development, natural capital, and human wellbeing via ‘ecosystem service’ and ‘green infrastructure’ perspectives.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Research Institute for Landscape, Architecture and Built Environment, University of Louvain UCLouvain, Belgium.

K.K. Srivastava

K.K. Srivastava is an Associate Professor , PGDAV College , University of Delhi, New Delhi India . He also runs his own consulting company, K3A Advisory Services Private Limited. KKS started his professional life with the communication agency Niche Communications where his responsibilities included providing strategic inputs for marketing communication of brands. Later he worked with his colleague and partner to provide backgrounders on Indian economy, polity and society to media groups like the New York Times, German TV, BBC and so on. KKS has more than 60 articles and research papers to his credit on diverse topics in Economics, Marketing, Advertising, Human Resource Management and Environmental Studies.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

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