Industrial Unsustainability

Unsustainability and Overexploitation in Fisheries

Unsustainability of Obesity: Metabolic Food Waste

The obesity burden, with 1.5 billion overweight (OW) and 500 million obese (OB) worldwide, significantly increased the risk of degenerative diseases. Excessive consumption of foods that are energy dense lead to obesity, which represents a titanic cost for not only the world's health systems but also a substantial ecological cost to the environment. The waste of resources and the unnecessary gre...

The Measure of Unsustainability in Emergy Evaluation

Sustainability is an ideal state, that cannot be “measured” per se. We can instead try to measure the distance from this ideal state. Regarding the use of resources and the emission of residues in the environment, the problem is “extensive”, i.e. a function of the magnitude of the problem (with respect to the size of the system). Humanity is approaching its “limits to growth” and this problem i...

Unsustainability Risk Causality in a Private Industrial Forest: An Institutional Analysis of Factors Affecting Stand Ecosystem Services in Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Much research in recent years has analyzed the ecosystem service aspect of forests, while highlighting the need for sustainable forests. Forest management mechanisms at an inter-institutional level in Japan have been identified to hinder the implementation of forest management that is focused on the equal production of ecosystem services. This study presents an institutional analysis of unsusta...

One-sided Unsustainability Tests and NNP Measurement with Multiple Consumption Goods

In an economy with multiple consumption goods (including environmental amenities) that uniquely maximizes the present value of utility with constant discounting, constant or falling augmented green net national product, or zero or negative augmented net investment, at any time implies that the economy is unsustainable then. "Augmented" means that time is included as a productive stock, which in...