Article
Environmental Sciences
Jefim Vogel, Jason Hickel
Summary: Although high-income countries have reduced their CO2 emissions through absolute decoupling, these achievements fall far short of the requirements of the Paris Agreement. To meet the emission reduction targets of the agreement while continuing economic growth, decoupling rates would need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025.
LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Klaas Lenaerts, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff
Summary: World needs to either decouple global GHG emissions from GDP at an unprecedented pace or face deep cuts to GDP in order to achieve steep emission reductions. The optimistic 'green growth' literature believes in suitable policies and technology while the 'degrowth' proponents argue for downsizing the global economy and emphasize systemic change and redistribution. This study uses the Kaya identity to assess the gap between historic performance and green growth requirements, and reviews literature on both degrowth and green growth to highlight their arguments and proposals. While degrowth authors are accurate in pointing out the gap between current efforts and necessities in climate mitigation, their radical proposals also come with uncertainties and risks. It is unlikely that alternative welfare conceptions can gain support from enough countries to pursue a degrowth agenda. Governments should instead focus on mobilizing investments, pricing carbon emissions, and promoting innovation and behavioral change.
Article
Ecology
Rikard Hjorth Warlenius
Summary: This paper assesses the debate between proponents of "green growth" and "degrowth", focusing on the possibility of decoupling carbon emissions and resource use from GDP growth at a sufficient rate to achieve policy goals. The claims made by degrowth scholars on the limits of decoupling are examined, and it is argued that their pessimistic view is not well-supported. Based on assumptions by leading degrowth scholars, it is suggested that reaching the desired policy targets would require drastic reductions in GDP for global north economies, making it highly unlikely. However, the paper discusses potential alternatives and outlines a realist and dynamic theory of decoupling.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matteo Mura, Mariolina Longo, Sara Zanni, Laura Toschi
Summary: This paper utilizes an unconditional growth model to analyze a unique dataset of European regions from 2008 to 2016 and identifies four development scenarios: green growth, green de-growth, black growth, and black de-growth, each characterized by different relationships between CO2 emissions and economic growth. The authors then map European regions onto these scenarios and describe the variations in socio-economic externalities, such as competences, investments, and well-being. Their analysis contributes to the debate on development scenarios and ecological macro-economics, and provides implications for sustainability policy and research.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Review
Ecology
Christine Corlet Walker, Angela Druckman, Tim Jackson
Summary: Welfare systems in OECD countries are facing challenges such as rising inequality, demographic changes, and environmental crises. Economic growth is no longer seen as a sustainable solution, leading to the need to consider how welfare systems can cope without economic growth. Five interconnected dilemmas for post-growth welfare systems are identified, including funding, rising costs, dependencies, resource management, and political barriers. Further research is needed to understand the dynamics of post-growth welfare systems and to explore new models of welfare provision.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Stefanie Kunkel, David Tyfield
Summary: Digitalization is likely to alter established economic development processes, but the phenomenon of digital rebound could exacerbate ecological harm. Both digitalization and industrialization must be environmentally sustainable to meet pressing sustainability goals such as climate change mitigation.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Lorenzo Fioramonti, Luca Coscieme, Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Katherine Trebeck, Stewart Wallis, Debra Roberts, Lars F. Mortensen, Kate E. Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, Jacqueline McGlade, Hunter Lovins, Roberto De Vogli
Summary: The concept of 'wellbeing economy' is gaining support among policymakers and various sectors of society, with several national governments adopting it as a guiding framework for development policies. Its adaptable language and concepts are able to connect to a variety of cultural traits in different social and economic contexts.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ivan Savin, Jeroen van den Bergh
Summary: The debate between economic growth and the environment has been revived by climate change. There is a proposal to shift the focus of the IPCC scenarios from emissions reduction to post-growth. However, this confuses the distinction between ends and means, as aiming for post-growth as a goal would be an ineffective and costly way to reduce emissions. Instead, it is suggested that the debate should be focused on policies rather than targets, in order to achieve both economic growth and climate goals more effectively.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Catherine Lehmann, Olivier Delbard, Steffen Lange
Summary: This article investigates the attitudes of environmental protection specialists towards concepts related to economic growth and environmental sustainability. The results show that these specialists prefer growth-critical concepts such as a-growth, post-growth, and degrowth over green growth, with a-growth/post-growth being the most favored concept. The preferences are stable across different measures and specialists with more knowledge on the concepts are more likely to prefer growth-critical concepts.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Haozhe Yang, Sangwon Suh
Summary: The study reveals that the costs and benefits of climate change mitigation are unevenly distributed among different age cohorts and countries, with disparities expected to widen over time, especially between older and younger age groups.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Management
Mehmet Onal, Wilco van den Heuvel, Meryem Merve Dereli, Erinc Albey
Summary: This paper introduces a multiple-item economic lot sizing problem where items are produced through the fermentation of raw materials. The complexity of this problem is analyzed under various assumptions, and it is shown to be (strongly) N P-hard in several cases. Polynomial time algorithms are proposed for some single item cases, and a quick and simple heuristic approach is proposed for one of the multiple item cases.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Editorial Material
Geography
Anitra Nelson
Summary: This commentary engages with Callum Sutherland's analysis on reimagining postcapitalist geographies, outlining key characteristics of contemporary prefigurative hybrids pointing towards postcapitalism. It provides exemplar developments of postcapitalist degrowth and 'real valuist' futures, indicating the potential and challenges for geographers to formally approach and expand into postcapitalist studies. The significance of grotesque stratigraphy and the principles of frugal abundance in the degrowth formation Cargonomia are highlighted, as well as the explication of Fisher's acid communist politics and topological spatial imaginary of autonomy and commoning.
DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Malgorzata Zachara-Szymanska
Summary: This article investigates the economic orientation of the Millennial generation and the possible shift towards supporting the "degrowth" philosophy and practice. Millennials' orientation towards the market economy has become a distinctive feature of their identity and represents the first generation to question established market philosophies. The study considers the potential contribution of Millennials to alternative growth notions.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Rebecca T. Hahn, Stamatios Lerakis, Victoria Delgado, Karima Addetia, Daniel Burkhoff, Denisa Muraru, Sean Pinney, Mark K. Friedberg
Summary: Right ventricular (RV) size and function assessed by multimodality imaging are associated with outcomes in various cardiovascular diseases. Understanding RV anatomy and physiology is crucial for comprehending the strengths and weaknesses of current imaging methods and providing context for these measurements. The adaptation of the RV to different types and severities of stress, especially over time, is specific to the cardiovascular disease process. Multimodality imaging parameters, which determine outcomes, reflect the ability to image the initial and longitudinal RV response to stress. This paper reviews the standard and novel imaging methods for assessing RV function and discusses the impact of these parameters on outcomes in specific disease states.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nick Fitzpatrick, Timoth Parrique, Ines Cosme
Summary: Degrowth, as a solution to the social-ecological crises, is slowly being recognized in policy-making. However, the scattered proposals in the literature make it difficult for decision-makers to understand the concrete changes associated with degrowth. To address this issue, a comprehensive degrowth policy agenda was systematically mapped out, consisting of 530 specific proposals divided into 13 policy themes. The precision, frequency, quality, and diversity of this agenda were assessed to understand the evolution of the degrowth policy toolbox until today.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lars odegaard Bentsen, Narada Dilp Warakagoda, Roy Stenbro, Paal Engelstad
Summary: This study investigates uncertainty modeling in wind power forecasting using different parametric and non-parametric methods. Johnson's SU distribution is found to outperform Gaussian distributions in predicting wind power. This research contributes to the literature by introducing Johnson's SU distribution as a candidate for probabilistic wind forecasting.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xing Liu, Qiuchen Wang, Yunhao Wen, Long Li, Xinfang Zhang, Yi Wang
Summary: This study analyzes the characteristics of process parameters in three lean gas ethane recovery processes and establishes a prediction and multiobjective optimization model for ethane recovery and system energy consumption. A new method for comparing ethane recovery processes for lean gas is proposed, and the addition of extra coolers improves the ethane recovery. The support vector regression model based on grey wolf optimization demonstrates the highest prediction accuracy, and the multiobjective multiverse optimization algorithm shows the best optimization performance and diversity in the solutions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cairong Song, Haidong Yang, Xian-Bing Meng, Pan Yang, Jianyang Cai, Hao Bao, Kangkang Xu
Summary: The paper proposes a novel deep learning-based prediction framework, aTCN-LSTM, for accurate cooling load predictions. The framework utilizes a gate-controlled multi-head temporal convolutional network and a sparse probabilistic self-attention mechanism with a bidirectional long short-term memory network to capture both temporal and long-term dependencies in the cooling load sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, which can serve as an effective guide for HVAC chiller scheduling and demand management initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhe Chen, Xiaojing Li, Xianli Xia, Jizhou Zhang
Summary: This study uses survey data from the Loess Plateau in China to evaluate the impact of social interaction on the adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technology by farmers. The study finds that social interaction increases the likelihood of farmers adopting SWC, and internet use moderates this effect. The positive impact of social interaction on SWC adoption is more pronounced for farmers in larger villages and those who join cooperative societies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenghua Zhang, Yunfei Yan, Kaiming Shen, Zongguo Xue, Jingxiang You, Yonghong Wu, Ziqiang He
Summary: This paper reports a novel method that significantly improves combustion performance, including heat transfer enhancement under steady-state conditions and adaptive stable flame regulation under velocity sudden increase.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)