The limits of human development and the use of energy and natural resources

Dias, Rubens Alves; Mattos, Cristiano Rodrigues de; Balestieri, José Antônio Perrella

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2004.09.008

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“…Through the activities of an appropriate educational curriculum the students can revise his personal values, understand the good called energy and learn to use it rationally [3,11]. The aim of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of elementary school students with regard to energy management.…”

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Socio-Cultural Impact of Energy Saving: Studying the Behaviour of Elementary School Students in Greece

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Abstract:Education makes it possible for students to become familiar with the rational management of energy as well as learn to implement energy saving practices in their everyday life. The study of certain student characteristics helps in the direction of applying strategies of behavioural change. The aim of this research is to record the knowledge and attitudes of elementary school students in the Prefecture of Evros with regard to energy saving. The collection of research data was done through the use of a structured and anonymous questionnaire with closed questions. The method used for the collection of the research data was cluster sampling. This involved 17 elementary schools of the continental part of the prefecture. 612 questionnaires were completed by students of the 5th and 6th grade of these schools. The evaluation of the research data showed that 69.6% of the students think that the most appropriate house temperature is 20 • C with 79.1% of the students keeping the thermostat switched off while the house is aired. With regard to the use of TV, stereo, play station and PC the research showed that 93.8% of the students switch off the above devices when these are not in use. In parallel, 86.6% of the respondents usually or always switch off the lights when coming out of a room and 46.2% of the students use energy saving bulbs. Also, 93% of the students recycle because they believe that doing so contributes to the protection of the environment while 41% always chooses to walk to school. With regard to the significance of reasons concerning energy saving 85.9% thinks that energy saving is important to very important for reducing environmental pollution.

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“…Secondly, the biosphere's natural systems are being systematically depleted through physical activities such as over-harvesting (Velisarios, 2001, Harvey, 2004Sen, 2004;Stern, 2007:iii). The result is that overall the resource potential of the biosphere, and therefore society within it, continues to decrease, while demand for resources continues to increase due to population growth and rising living standards (Dias et al, 2006;Ehrlich, 2006).…”

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Rock On!: bringing strategic sustainable development to music festivals

Brooks¹,

Magnin²,

O'Halloran³

2009

PIE

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Abstract:Recreational events gather large numbers of people in concentrated areas for brief periods of time. Effects of these events extend far beyond their spatial and temporal boundaries; a music festival is one such event. This paper asks, "What are some measures that can move music festivals strategically toward sustainability?" A framework for strategic sustainable development based on backcasting from sustainability principles is applied. Research draws on pertinent literature, interviews with festival organizers and an in-depth case study with International Music Concepts. Results indicate that critical flows and management routines upon which music festivals depend contribute to systematic undermining of social and ecological systems. Festival organizers sit at the centre of these flows, and are crucial to changing them. Education to inspire behavioural change of festival organizers and other stakeholders, notably suppliers, audience and artists, appears critical to shifting music festivals toward sustainability. This can be underpinned by building in-house 'sustainability capacity' of festival organisations; creating strategic alliances between festival organizers; and scaling up organisational efforts to include lobbying governments for financial and other support to authenticate a high-level commitment to true sustainable development. Music festivals may then leverage their role in society to move society itself toward sustainability. A template and guidebook are presented to facilitate this shift.

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“…Generally, this research finds that energy consumption (or carbon emissions) is tightly linked to well-being at lower levels of economic development, often employing models informed by the IPAT or Kaya identity framework. However, for high-income nations, energy consumption and emissions tend to decouple from wellbeing such that growth in energy consumption does not necessarily improve well-being in high-income nations [4,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. Pasternak [33] refers to this phenomenon as a "plateau," while Martinez and Ebenhack [36] offer the term "saturation".…”

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Democratic institutions and the energy intensity of well-being: a cross-national study

Mayer

2017

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: Energy consumption is necessary for human well-being, yet the growth of energy consumption also contributes to climate change and a range of negative externalities. Thus, a key sustainability challenge is to efficiently use energy consumption to promote human well-being. This manuscript contributes to the growing literature on the ecological intensity of well-being (EIWB) by modeling the relationship between democratic institutions and the energy intensity of well-being. Methods: We use international data to understand how democratic institutions-understood as a combination of elected legislature, elected executives, and democratic competition-impact the energy intensity of well-being. The energy intensity of well-being is an adjusted ratio of energy consumption and life expectancy. We combine randomintercept mixed-effect models with entropy balancing constraints to create covariate balance between democracies and non-democracies. Results: Contrary to our expectations, we find that consistently null results suggesting that democracies do not leverage their energy consumption to improve well-being more effectively than other systems of government. Democracy and its subcomponents do not appear to improve, or reduce, the energy intensity of well-being. Conclusions: Democracy does not appear to improve sustainability, operationalized as the energy intensity of well-being. On the other hand, democracies do not appear to do worse than non-democracies, suggesting democratization can spread without reducing sustainability.

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The limits of human development and the use of energy and natural resources

Cited by 90 publications

References 15 publications

Socio-Cultural Impact of Energy Saving: Studying the Behaviour of Elementary School Students in Greece

Socio-Cultural Impact of Energy Saving: Studying the Behaviour of Elementary School Students in Greece

Rock On!: bringing strategic sustainable development to music festivals

Democratic institutions and the energy intensity of well-being: a cross-national study

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