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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

10. Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability

verfasst von : Renata Dagiliūtė

Erschienen in: International Economics of Resource Efficiency

Verlag: Physica-Verlag HD

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Abstract

Physical growth of society and related environmental burden has gained an international attention in the last decade. Focus on delinking economy growth from resource consumption was put on the top of international and national policy. Despite some improvement in resource productivity was achieved, growing demand resulted in overall increase in resource consumption (Jackson 2009). Many environmental measures and efficiency gains were outweighed by unsustainable extraction, production and consumption patterns. Therefore the need to re-examine recent development patterns and to put higher priority to absolute decoupling processes is of importance.

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Metadaten
Titel
Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability
verfasst von
Renata Dagiliūtė
Copyright-Jahr
2011
Verlag
Physica-Verlag HD
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2601-2_10