Material flows and resource productivity in China, South Korea and Japan from 1970 to 2008: A transitional perspective

Dong, Liang; Dai, Ming; Huang, Liang; Zhang, Ning; Mancheri, Nabeel A; Ren, Jingzheng; Dou, Yusheng; Hu, Mingming

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.189

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“…Studies of long-term trends in resource use as well as comparative cross-country datasets 81,82 investigate the potentials for decoupling the use of materials and energy from economic growth and wellbeing 83 . Material flow accounting and substance flow analysis can be combined to provide detailed assessment of flows of specific materials and substances.…”

Section: Materials and Energy Flow Analysis (Mefa)mentioning

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Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science

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Recent high-level agreements such as the Paris climate accord or the Sustainable Development Goals aim at mitigating climate change, ecological degradation and biodiversity loss while pursuing social goals such as reducing hunger or poverty. Systemic approaches bridging natural and social sciences are required to support these agendas. The surging human use of biophysical resources (materials, energy) results from the pursuit of social and economic goals, while it also drives global environmental change. Socio-metabolic research links the study of socioeconomic processes with biophysical processes and thus plays a pivotal role for understanding societynature interactions. It includes a broad range of systems science approaches for measuring, analyzing and modelling of biophysical stocks and flows as well as the services they provide to society. Here we outline and systematize major socio-metabolic research traditions that study the biophysical basis of economic activity: urban metabolism, the multi-scale integrated assessment of societal and ecosystem metabolism, biophysical economics, material and energy flow analysis, and environmentally extended input-output analysis. Examples from recent research demonstrate strengths and weaknesses of socio-metabolic research. We discuss future research directions that could also help to enrich related fields.

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Section: Materials and Energy Flow Analysis (Mefa)mentioning

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“…For instance, Dong et al (2017) distinguished between developing, primary developed and mature industrialized countries, while Steinberger et al (2013) highlighted the difference between the metabolic regimes of China and Germany. Figure 1 shows a scatterplot of DMC per capita and GDP per capita for a sample of European countries over the 2000-2015 period.…”

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Monitoring domestic material consumption at lower territorial levels: A novel data downscaling method

Bianchi

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2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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The availability of harmonized and granular information is critical for the design of place-sensitive policies toward more sustainable economies. However, accessibility to disaggregated data at subnational levels remains an exception in many geographies and policy domains. In this article, we develop a novel three-stage-specification, optimization, extrapolation (SOE)-econometric approach to infer harmonized regional level estimates from broadly available socioeconomic data. The approach is tested by estimating domestic material consumption (DMC) in more than 280 European regions (at NUTS 2 level). Unlike previous methods based on similar econometric techniques, our method makes explicit the socio-metabolic profiles of subnational territories by estimating and applying country-specific elasticities. Our DMC estimates are consistent with those obtained by ad hoc material flow studies that could be accessed for a sample of regions. The SOE method presented in this paper provides decision-makers with a powerful tool to explore socio-metabolic profiles at subnational level and therefore to understand the potential effects of policies aimed at supporting circular economy transitions at such levels. The method can also be adapted with relative ease to support policy designs in other policy areas challenged by severe data scarcity.

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“…While they have contributed to the economic growth and social development, they also play a negative role at generating significant environmental impacts, like GHG and air emissions, water pollution, land contamination, and over-consumption of resources and energy. Thus, a green transmission of industrial parks is an effective way to green the national economy [11,12].…”

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“…An eco-industrial park (EIP) is defined as an industrial complex in which efforts to minimize the generation of waste, by-products, pollutants, and/or unused energy apply, by utilizing them in a closed loop among processes by companies in the industrial park [16][17][18][19]. In this way, various firms inside the park or processes of the firm try to use the waste/by-products as the raw material inputs and share the infrastructures correspondingly [4,11,20]. The sustainability of the built environment can be hereby improved as well [21,22].…”

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The Role of the Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) at the National Economy: An Input-Output Analysis on Korea

Kim¹,

Dong

Jung

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The eco-industrial park (EIP), which aims to minimize by-product and unused energy via reuse and recycling within the industrial complex, offers an innovative pathway to realize regional eco-industrial development. As an environmental, as well as business, innovation, the EIP enables changing the perception of industries and create new business values via the whole supply chain, but such evidences have been less reported to date. As one of the world famous promoter on EIPs, the Republic of Korea (ROK) initiated a national EIP project to enhance its competitiveness and solve environmental problems. While the existing literature reviewed and highlighted its economic outcomes in terms of direct performances of firms within the project, the indirect impacts on the supply chain of national economy were less investigated. Within this circumstance, this study performed a first attempt to apply an input-output analysis (IOA) to investigate the effects of the EIP project on the whole economic system of Korea, via an exogenous specification of the EIP sector in the input-output tables (IOTs). General economic effects in terms of value-added change, employment generation, as well as specific effects like the inducement effects and effects of supply shortage and price pervasiveness were evaluated based on the IOA approach (including demand-driven, supply-driven, and Leontief price models). Results highlighted that, from the supply chain perspective, implementing the EIP project made production and value-added grow by around 1264 billion KRW and 272 billion KRW, respectively (with a unit induction coefficient of 1.6201 and 0.3489 for production and value-added). While generating a direct employment around 1000, an indirect employment was also created of over 5000 persons in the whole supply chain (with an employment inducement effect of 6.4512 persons per 1 billion KRW investment). The production shortage cost from 1 KRW of supply failure is 1.1230 KRW. In summary, EIP was proved to be not environmentally friendly, but also a driver to improve the overall economic performance of upstream and downstream industries in the whole supply chain. As a first attempt to link IOA with EIP, the results of this paper are expected to enlighten policy-makers to forward continued improvement on EIP promotion and combine the EIP idea within national economic system reform and planning.

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Material flows and resource productivity in China, South Korea and Japan from 1970 to 2008: A transitional perspective

Cited by 64 publications

References 29 publications

Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science

Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science

Monitoring domestic material consumption at lower territorial levels: A novel data downscaling method

The Role of the Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) at the National Economy: An Input-Output Analysis on Korea

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