1st Edition
A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of Global Consumption Economic, Environmental, and Social Effects of Pre-Pandemic World Trade 1990–2015
This book adds a whole new dimension to the editors’ previous work on the social, economic, and environmental effects of global trade. For the first time it brings all three pillars of sustainability together into one coherent multiregional input–output (MRIO) framework. It shows the power of MRIO analysis to illuminate the local and global interdependencies of economic, environmental, and social systems and the benefits to be gained through analysing all three together. Change one thing and everything else changes. With chapters from around 60 researchers across 34 countries, this book illustrates the effect of natural resources and government policy settings 1990–2015 on the balancing act that was—and is—global trade. It provides a holistic systems’ view of how supply chains work, revealing how easily they can become fragmented and out of kilter. And within all the chaos of COVID-19 it shows how MRIO is the one tool that can help rebuild a post-pandemic global economy into a fairer, safer world.
Part 1: Introduction
1. A Global Perspective on Sustainable Development
Kirsten S. Wiebe
2. Deepening of Global Value Chains
Norihiko Yamano and Kirsten S. Wiebe
3. Money Cannot Compensate for Entropy: Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Decoupling of Economics from Reality
Alf Hornborg
4. Is It the End of World (Trade) as We Know It? Changes in Global Trade Patterns after the Outbreak of COVID-19
André Carrascal Incera, Esteban Fernández Vázquez, and Mònica Serrano
5. Meauring Impacts in Global Value Chains through Consumption-Based Accounting
Moana Simas
Part 2: Europe
6. Europe: A Resource-Dependent Region with Strong Sustainability-Oriented Policies
Moana Simas
7. European Union: Protecting the Environment while Securing Jobs and Growth
José Manuel Rueda-Cantuche
8. Austria
Barbara Plank, Nina Eisenmenger, and Dominik Wiedenhofer
9. Bulgaria
Diana Ivanova
10. France: International Resources for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Future?
Yannick Oswald
11. Germany
Lisa Becker and Christian Lutz
12. Italy
Tullio Gregori
13. The Netherlands
Glenn A. Aguilar-Hernandez, João F. D. Rodrigues, and Arnold Tukker
14. Norway: Rich + Green = Sustainable?
Carl-Johan Södersten and Sarah Schmidt
15. Sweden: An Environmental Success Story
Sarah Schmidt and Carl-Johan Södersten
16. The UK: A Proud Leader, or Dishonest User of Statistics
Simon Mair and Angela Druckman
17. Poland
Marta Baltruszewicz
18. Transition of Slovakia toward a Modern Market Economy
Martin Lábaj
19. Spain
Paola Rocchi and Juan-Manuel Valderas Jaramillo
Part 3: Africa
20. Africa as Net Exporter of Natural Resources and Pollution
Martin P. de Wit
21. South Africa: The Sideways Drift of a Jobless Coal-and-Carbon Nexus
Martin P. de Wit
22. Ghana
Takako Wakiyama
23. Kenya
Sofía Jiménez Calvo
24. Morocco
Patrizio Lecca and Giovanni Mandras
25. Malawi
Patrizio Lecca and Giovanni Mandras
Part 4: The Americas
26. The Americas: On Track toward Sustainable Development?
Jorge Gómez-Paredes
27. Ecuador: A Traditional Development Path
Jorge Gómez-Paredes, Sofía Rojo, and Jordi Cravioto
28. Bolivia
Andrés Escobar Espinoza and Bernardo Romero Torres
29. Nicaragua: Central America’s Green Lung. But How much Longer?
Sarah Schmidt and Carl-Johan Södersten
30. Brazil
Alessandra Maria Giacomin and Sergio Almeida Pacca
31. Colombia
Lina I. Brand-Correa
32. Mexico: 20 Years of North American Free-Trade Agreement. Socio-Environmental Trends and Unequal Exchange
Gibran Vita
33. Argentina: Energy Transition to a Cleaner Economy
María Priscila Ramos and Carlos Adrián Romero
34. Chile
Loreto Bieritz
35. United States of America
T. Reed Miller and Catherine Benoit Norris
Part 5: Asia and Oceania
36. Asia and Oceania: Mutual Outsourcing Partners
Keisuke Nansai
37. China
Yafei Wang
38. Japan
Takako Wakiyama
39. Indonesia
Futu Faturay
40. Russia
Kirill Muradov
41. Australia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jacob Fry, Murray Hall, and Barney Foran
42. New Zealand
John Holt
Part 6: Middle East
43. Middle East: The Dilemma of Oil, Water, and Development
Moslem Yousefzadeh and Syed Muhammad Hassan Ali
44. Iran
Moslem Yousefzadeh
45. Iraq
Syed Muhammad Hassan Ali
Biography
Joy Murray is a senior research fellow with the Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group at the School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia. Before joining ISA, Dr. Murray worked for over 25 years in education, preschool to postgraduate. She has also worked with residents of government housing estates to collaboratively develop leadership capacity.
Anne Owen is an academic fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK. Dr. Owen has a background in end-use energy demand and consumption-based energy and carbon accounting using state-of-the-art MRIO databases. She is responsible for constructing the model being used to calculate the UK’s carbon and material footprint—the statistics reported annually by the UK Government.
Moana Simas is a researcher at the Sustainable Energy Technologies group at SINTEF, one of the largest independent research organizations in Europe. She has a background in environmental sciences and energy systems. Her current work focusses on assessing triple bottom line impacts of technology change, climate policies, and circular economy strategies on local and global value chains.
Arunima Malik is an academic at the University of Sydney. She has expertise in undertaking Big-Data modelling of sustainability performance of products, processes, and organisations, and to quantify sustainability impacts at local, national, and global scales. She works closely with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network for undertaking assessments for quantifying spillover effects in international supply chains.
