Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment

The Nexus between Energy, Food, Water and Land Use
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-72059-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Sustainability and Governance

The demands placed on land, water, energy and other natural resources are exacerbated as the world population continues to increase together with the expectations of economic growth. This, combined with concerns over environmental change, presents a set of scientific, policy and management issues that are critical for sustainability.

Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: The nexus between energy, food, water and land use offers an approach for multi-scale, integrated assessment of this nexus. It presents a comprehensive and original method of resource accounting for integrated sustainability assessments. The approach is illustrated with three detailed case studies: the islands of Mauritius, the Indian state of Punjab, and the energy economy of South Africa. The relationships between flows of goods, services and materials in these case studies offer valuable insights. The book provides a much needed quality control on the information used in deliberative processes about policy and planning activities.

This innovative book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of sustainability science, international development, industrial ecology, sustainable resource management, geography and ecological economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giampietro, Mario

Aspinall, Richard J.

Ramos-Martin, Jesus

Bukkens, Sandra G. F.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Theory 1. Addressing the complexity of integrated resource assessment 2. The multi-scale integrated assessment of societal and ecosystem metabolism 3. The scientific basis of the narrative of societal and ecosystem metabolism 4. The interface between societal and ecosystem metabolism 5. Land systems: Multi-scale dynamics of human and environmental systems Part 2: The Toolkit 6. Accounting for human activity and socio-economic characteristics 7. Food grammar 8. Energy grammar 9. Water grammar 10. GIS protocols for use with MUSIASEM 11. The Sudoku effect within MUSIASEM Part 3: Case Studies 12. The Republic of Mauritius 13. Punjab State, India 14. The Republic of South Africa 15. Resource accounting for sustainability assessment

Über Autor(innen)

Mario Giampietro is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Richard J. Aspinall is Honorary Research Fellow at the James Hutton Institute and Honorary Professor, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Jesus Ramos-Martin is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Sandra G.F. Bukkens is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.