Green growth: From intention to implementation

Jouvet, Pierre‐André; Perthuis, Christian de

doi:10.1016/j.inteco.2013.05.003

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“…We refrain from performing such a valuation effort because whether losses of ecosystem services and functions can even be valuated has been the focus of heated debates (i.e., the question of placing a "price tag" on nature). Indeed, the whole point of the notion of "weak sustainability" is to present a critic to the substitutability between natural and human-made capital (e.g., Jouvet and de Perthuis, 2013). We performed our analysis considering a threshold of 0.25 (first lower quartile ranking from 0 to 1), however, we recognize that decision makers might assign priority to different factors and can adjust the sustainability threshold here applied.…”

Section: Indicator Hydrologic Economicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weak and Strong Sustainability of Irrigation: A Framework for Irrigation Practices Under Limited Water Availability

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Rosa

Marinello

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Agriculture strongly relies on irrigation. While irrigated land accounts for roughly 20% of the global cultivated area, it contributes to about 40% of crop production. In the last few decades, the growing demand for agricultural commodities has translated into an increasing pressure on the global freshwater resources, often leading to their unsustainable use. Here we investigate the sustainability of irrigation, balancing farmers' profit generation objectives and the needs of ecological systems. We ask the question "sustainability of what?" to stress how the sustainability of irrigation is often evaluated with respect the opposing needs of humans and nature. While from the farmers' perspective irrigation is sustainable when it provides uninterrupted access to water resources at a price not exceeding the marginal revenue they generate (clearly without accounting for environmental externalities), from the standpoint of water resources, irrigation is sustainable if it does not deplete freshwater stocks or environmental flows. We invoke the notions of "weak" and "strong" sustainability to develop a novel framework for the evaluation of tradeoffs between human needs and the conservation of natural capital. Through the analysis of criteria of performance, we relate water deficit and irrigation overuse to the reliability and resilience of irrigation. This approach is applied to the case of Australia, a major agricultural country affected by water scarcity. The application of the framework to the case of Australia shows how this approach can be used to highlight areas in which irrigation contributes to a weakly sustainable use of water resources with impacts on environmental flows and groundwater stocks. Solutions, such as increasing efficiencies or reducing water applications through the adoption of deficit irrigation, can enhance water sustainability in some water scarce locations.

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Section: Indicator Hydrologic Economicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weak and Strong Sustainability of Irrigation: A Framework for Irrigation Practices Under Limited Water Availability

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Rosa

Marinello

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Attention should be given to the fact that there is a clear gap between the different levels in the process of organizational maturity, and as a result, a methodology is needed to predict the level of the local industry [21,22]. The method of using the targeted impact factors may be far too generic to be utilized by practitioners seeking to implement the specific growth management of the construction industry in order to ensure its sustainable development [23,24].…”

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Analysis and Potential Application of the Maturity of Growth Management in the Developing Construction Industry of a Province of China: A Case Study

Zhang

Wang

2017

Sustainability

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Construction industry is one of the major drivers of the economic sustainability of China's provinces. An investigation of the status of the construction industry in China is needed to find out its maturity and health. The results of this investigation may help China define the impact factors required in order to promote the growth level of its construction industry. This research assesses the growth level of the construction industry in Shaanxi Province, China. This study utilizes both the original average score method and the newer entropy method to analyze the growth level of the construction industry based on its growth management model and growth drivers. An empirical survey of this research includes 123 construction companies in Shaanxi Province. The results show that the entropy method is better than the average score method to use when analyzing the maturity status of a local industry for future development. The maturity level of Shaanxi's construction industry lies on the second tier in a four-tier ranking system. The advanced professional skills of project management are critically needed for future growth. Brand building is the most important factor needed to drive up Shaanxi's construction industry. Standardization, knowledge management through lessons learned, and cost management for budget control by using information systems are required for Shaanxi's construction project management. The Excellent Project Management Model of China is often used in Chinese project knowledge management. After maturity analysis, China's local industries would be able to develop a sustainable strategy for optimizing their outcomes by removing the hurdles preventing future growth.

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“…At the same time, new regions can obtain an optimal system with economic development in addition to the new energy solution to address the energy equity problem. This can be explained on the basis of the green growth theory .…”

Section: Possible Photovoltaic Growth Enginesmentioning

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Solar photovoltaic energy policy and globalization: a multiperspective approach with case studies of Germany, Japan, and China

Popiolek

Geoffron

2014

Progress in Photovoltaics

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Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have experienced strong market growth over the last decade. Since the mid‐2000s, the increase in demand in line with policy supports in Europe has attracted the Chinese players into the PV manufacturing market. Chinese production soared in a short time and managed to quickly reduce the cost thanks to large‐scale supply with mass‐produced products. Faced with the global economic crisis, the European countries began reducing their policy supports that caused a decrease in the demand for PV installations. Despite such a market situation, Chinese PV manufacturers have continued to produce large quantities of solar PV products and thereby aggravated the global PV industry situation with a global supply–demand imbalance. China's rapid market expansion without domestic market development has brought unexpected results with an oversupply of PV materials and equipment in a global market and destabilized the PV market. It influenced the PV policy mechanisms of other countries. Many PV firms in the world have since gone into bankruptcy. China and Europe lately went through a trade dispute over the Chinese solar panel imports (dumping suspicion). In this context, this study aims to identify the PV policy mechanisms based on a multiperspective approach in Germany, Japan, and China. A systematic logical framework is proposed and then used to explain each country's PV policy strategy and results. Moreover, PV globalization impacts and interactions among them are studied using the international trade theory. At the end, this research also attempts to seek optimal strategies to improve the global PV mechanisms. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Green growth: From intention to implementation

Cited by 38 publications

References 27 publications

Weak and Strong Sustainability of Irrigation: A Framework for Irrigation Practices Under Limited Water Availability

Weak and Strong Sustainability of Irrigation: A Framework for Irrigation Practices Under Limited Water Availability

Analysis and Potential Application of the Maturity of Growth Management in the Developing Construction Industry of a Province of China: A Case Study

Solar photovoltaic energy policy and globalization: a multiperspective approach with case studies of Germany, Japan, and China

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