The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that in 2010-2012, 868 million people were undernourished world-wide. At the sam time, FAO reported that approximately 1.3 billion tons of food were lost or wasted globally in 2007, which was equivalent to...

Profit-seeking firms can be induced to internalise the environmental damages caused by production via several policy instruments, a widely used one being emission permits. In a very influential paper, Laffont and Tirole (J Public Econ 62:127-140, 1996) point out that the allocation of pollution...

We show that in poor resource-based communities, the socio-psychological preference for employment, which arises from a strong desire to follow the communal norm of sharing in harvesting efforts, can lead to the optimality of full-employment harvesting until resource extinction. We show that...

The changes in the food supply over a period of almost 50 years in the three biggest economies in Asia were examined to estimate the change in the virtual phosphorus requirements in each country over time with regard to food consumption. While the overall food supply in the rapidly growing...

Various indicators have been developed to assess the sustainability of countries. However, it remains theoretically and practically unclear whether it is possible to include institutions as an element of the sustainability indes. One of the main challenges is the substantial problem of missing...

This study explores the driving factors of resource consuption patterns in order to identify historical trends in population, affluence, and technology that affect environmental impact reduction through low resource consumption. While such assessments have been conducted in many industrialized...

The process life-cycle assessment (LCA) method has a crucial problem such that the LCA system boundary is freely decided by LCA practitioners, which consequently leads to truncation error and underestimation of life-cycle emission. This paper focuses on clustering methods (eigenvalue...

...We examine patterns of supply and demand for iron ore and bauxite, and recent trends in resource productivity of these two important metal ores. We introduce a consumption perspective and compare the material footprint of metal ores to the GDP of countries to look at how much economic benefit...