Sustainable development in the BRICS countries: an efficiency analysis by data envelopment

Santana, Naja Brandão; Rebelatto, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento; Périco, Ana Elisa; Mariano, Enzo Barberio

doi:10.1080/13504509.2014.900831

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“…The increase in investments in technological innovation, associated with the increased levels of CO 2 , enabled the assumption that this type of investment, adopted by the BRICS group, does not help them meet their sustainable development targets, and are geared to meet the market pressures, anticipating the consumer needs, as discussed by Hall and Vredenburg (2003). This confirms earlier results by Santana et al (2014), who stated that the investments in technological innovation made by the BRICS may not be focused on sustainable technologies that can reduce levels of CO 2 emissions. It is also consistent with the results of Amiolemen et al (2012), who affirmed that most emerging countries do not have the conventional technology to combat environmental pollution.…”

Section: Separate Results For Investments In Technological Innovationsupporting

confidence: 91%

Technological innovation for sustainable development: an analysis of different types of impacts for countries in the BRICS and G7 groups

Santana

Rebelatto

Périco

et al. 2015

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Technological innovation is considered as being one of the major driving forces in fostering economic growth. However, in the current economic situation, where matters related to environmental protection and conservation play a key role, technological innovation can also be used as a driver of new production alternatives to reduce the harmful impacts of industrial development on society and nature. Within this context, this paper aims to analyze, through econometric tools, the relationship between investments in technological innovation and the sustainable development of G7 and BRICS countries. The results demonstrate that for the BRICS group, technological innovation has been significant for the three pillars of sustainable development. However, for the G7 group, technological innovation was considered significant only for social development, showing no statistical significance for economic and environmental development. The results indicate that technological innovation can cause different types of impacts, depending on the development stage of the analyzed country or region.

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Section: Separate Results For Investments In Technological Innovationsupporting

confidence: 91%

Technological innovation for sustainable development: an analysis of different types of impacts for countries in the BRICS and G7 groups

Santana

Rebelatto

Périco

et al. 2015

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…Indeed, the differences among countries such as economic development, input utilization and pollution abatement, inevitably lead to differences in environmental performances [143]. If implemented correctly, resource efficiency initiatives can increase competitiveness, ensure growth and employment, promote innovation, reduce resource requirements, and allow improved access to resources, also taking into account that if developing countries should consume at the same level of the richest countries, the Earth will be destined to a collapse [144]. Human communities are considered in relation to biological systems.…”

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From local to national metabolism: a review and a scale-up framework

Yan

Liu

Ripa

et al. 2020

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Countries are likely the most important subjects involved in the environmental control and response to global environmental issues, while the majority of the related metabolic analyses are focused on the metabolism at the city scale. A single city or a smaller area is hardly self-sufficient, and its sustainability needs the support of the surrounding environment. Nevertheless, at the country scale, systems exhibit a higher level of self-organization and a corresponding higher level of complexity, addressing the need for applying the metabolic theory at the national scale. Socio-metabolic research is an effective method to study resource and environmental issues and has been applied at different scales. Based on previous studies, this review outlines the origin and development of metabolic theories, metabolic studies at different scales and their research methods, pointing out the relevance of national scale metabolic studies. The interactions among and within the scales are nested, as well as the goals and methods. Socio-metabolic research on scales differ in their priority goals, and the methods adopted must be targeted. In particular, we show the advantages in using the emergy

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“…In the literature, there is a lack of in-depth analysis that comprehensively incorporates the dimensions of sustainable development. There are reports on research that combines in one study elements from various dimensions of sustainable development, for example from the ecological and economic [22,23], or that cover simultaneously all three dimensions of sustainable development for a selected group of countries [24,25]. However, with such a wide approach (estimation of the efficiency in all three dimensions measured by DEA) it is not possible to characterize each dimension of sustainable development with a large number of indicators (due to the limited discriminatory power of DEA).…”

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Evaluation of the Efficiency of Sustainable Development Policy Implementation in Selected EU Member States Using DEA. The Ecological Dimension

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2020

Sustainability

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Since the ‘Earth Summit’ in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has been widely discussed and implemented globally. This paper proposes a quantitative tool, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), that can support decision makers in assessing the efficiency of implementation of the sustainable development policy. The example of such analysis is presented by assessing the efficiency of implementation of the sustainable development policy of twenty two European Union Member States in 2005–2015. DEA (and more specifically the Slack-Based Measure) showed an improvement in the efficiency of most of the Member States in 2015 as compared to the results achieved in 2005. This outcome sent a positive and motivating signal for the continuation of activities in the area of sustainable development implementation. The method used in the study also has determined the weak areas that still exist in inefficient countries and indicated the action that should be taken to improve their efficiency. DEA enables an objective comparison of the results measured using this method and may therefore be considered by EU Member States as well as other organizations, including local governments responsible for the implementation of a sustainable development policy as a useful tool facilitating an objective assessment of the effects of their work.

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Sustainable development in the BRICS countries: an efficiency analysis by data envelopment

Cited by 53 publications

References 40 publications

Technological innovation for sustainable development: an analysis of different types of impacts for countries in the BRICS and G7 groups

Technological innovation for sustainable development: an analysis of different types of impacts for countries in the BRICS and G7 groups

From local to national metabolism: a review and a scale-up framework

Evaluation of the Efficiency of Sustainable Development Policy Implementation in Selected EU Member States Using DEA. The Ecological Dimension

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