Natural resources and technology - on the mitigating effect of green tech

Konferenzbeitrag

Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether technology can lessen the problem of scarce natural resources. We focus on fossil and biomass materials as important resources for production and consumption. Utilizing a dynamic panel approach, the paper empirically analyses whether environmental innovations reduce the usage of biomass and fossil materials at the national level. Our results suggest that there is no consistent mitigating effect of green technology. Rather more, substantial heterogeneity in technology effects can be found between different types of resources. For biomass, no significant technology effects are found. Fossil materials are saved by innovations in recycling as well as by new production and processing technologies. Further, substitutional dynamics of fossil energy carriers are of major importance

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Sustainable Development ; Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Thema: Dynamic Panel ; Environmental Innovation ; Material Flows ; Patent Data ; Social Metabolism ; Sustainable Development

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Wendler, Tobias ; Töbelmann, Daniel ; Günther, Jutta
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (wo): Kiel, Hamburg
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242416
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ