期刊
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
卷 124, 期 -, 页码 76-85出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.12.011
关键词
MFA; Material flows; Resource use; Industrialization; Dematerialization; Material productivity; Social metabolism
资金
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P21012, MISO P27590]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P27590] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The study of long-term historical trends in material flows has gained some prominence in Ecological Economics since the first studies for Austria and the United Kingdom were published as part of a special section in 2002. This research expands the existing knowledgebase by presenting material flows for the Russian Federation and its predecessor states employing a standard accounting framework. The study of material flows for the Russian Federation provides an interesting and unique case of a planned economy and its transition to a market based form of economic organization. We show that in spite of considerable differences in the physical economy, the USSR developed material use patterns similar to that of Western industrialized economies. Lower levels of consumption were more than outweighed by inefficient production. The transition towards a market economy drove rapid improvements in resource productivity but also growth in metabolic rates. The results indicate that the transition to an industrial metabolic profile proceeds largely irrespective of economic and political conditions. An improved understanding of the evolution of socio-economic systems and the material flows that fuel them is increasingly relevant for designing new systems of production and consumption and facilitating a transition towards a more sustainable industrial metabolism, (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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