ReviewEnvironmental science & policy2020
Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature.
Review in Environmental science & policy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Decomposition Analysis of the Carbon Footprint of Primary Metals.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Ten facts about land systems for sustainability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Revisiting the Existence of EKC Hypothesis under Different Degrees of Population Aging: Empirical Analysis of Panel Data from 140 Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Process assessment, integration and optimisation: The path towards cleaner production.Journal of cleaner production · 2021Article
- Spatial-Temporal Analysis and Driving Factors Decomposition of (De)Coupling Condition of SOInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
The idea of decoupling "environmental bads" from "economic goods" has been proposed as a path towards sustainability by organizations such as the OECD and UN. Scientific consensus reports on environmental impacts (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions) and resource use give an indication of the kind of decoupling needed for ecological sustainability: global, absolute, fast-enough and long-enough. This goal gives grounds for a categorisation of the different kinds of decoupling, with regard to their relevance. We conducted a survey of recent (1990-2019) research on decoupling on Web of Science and reviewed the results in the research according to the categorisation. The reviewed 179 articles contain evidence of absolute impact decoupling, especially between CO2 (and SOX) emissions and evidence on geographically limited (national level) cases of absolute decoupling of land and blue water use from GDP, but not of economy-wide resource decoupling, neither on national nor international scales. Evidence of the needed absolute global fast-enough decoupling is missing.
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