Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. Focussing on economics, sustainability, technology and policy, the book highlights system innovation, leapfrogging strategies of emerging economies, possible rebound effects and international market development. It puts natural resources centre stage and will make an important contribution to achieving the goal of a 21st century Green Economy.

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Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. Focussing on economics, sustainability, technology and policy, the book highlights system innovation, leapfrogging strategies of emerging economies, possible rebound effects and international market development. It puts natural resources centre stage and will make an important contribution to achieving the goal of a 21st century Green Economy.

Part I. Sustainability Economics 1. Sustainability Economics, Resource Efficiency, and the Green New Deal 2. Global Economic Sustainability Indicator: Analysis and Policy Options for the Copenhagen Process 3. System Innovation for Environmental Sustainability: Concept, Policies and Political Economy 4. The Resources of Economics and the Productivity of Materials: Relevance, Measurement, Empirical Trends, Innovation, Resource Policies 5. The Economics of Current Metal Markets Part II. International Analysis 6. Competences for Green Developmetn and Leapfrogging: The Case of Newly Industrializing Countries 7. The US Proposed Carbon Tariffs, WTO Scrutiny and China's Responses 8. Plan C: China's Development Under the Scarcity of Natural Capital 9. The Dutch Energy Transition Approach 10. Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability Part III. Rebound Effects in Economics 11. Price and Income Induced Rebound Effects of Improved Energy Efficiency in Swedish Households: With Comments on Materials Efficiency 12. Analyzing Rebound Effects 13. How to Reduce the Rebound Effect? Part IV. Modeling the Use of Resources in Economics: Different Approaches 14. Multi-agent Modeling of Economic Innovation Dynamics and Its Implications for Analyzing Emission Impacts 15. How to Increase Global Resource Productivity? Findings from Modeling in the PetrE Project Part V. Outlook on Sustainable Resource Management 16. Identification of Technologies, Products and Strategies with High Resource Efficiency Potential: Results of a Cooperative Selection Process 17. Optimizing Resource Efficiency and Carbon Intensity in the Wood Processing Sector in Austria 18. Sustainable Resource Management in the Production Chain of Precious and Special Metals 19. Eco-Innovation for Enabling Resource Efficiency and Green Growth: Development of an Analytical Framework and Preliminary Analysis of Industry and Policy Practices