Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

Economics and Governance for Sustainable Development

Introduction In this chapter we assess the role of economics in governance for sustainable development. Firstly, we ask how has the ‘mainstream’ environmental and resource economics paradigm helped us understand the nature of sustainable development? We explain the context in which environmental and resource economics developed and the main propositions made during its formative years. These he...

Internet Governance and Sustainable Development

The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management. Through the Internet, we report on international negotiations and share knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global ...

Sustainable Resource Use & Sustainable Development: a Contradiction?!

The concept of ‘sustainability’ has become the current answer to absolving the world of its environmental and economic crises in the 21 century. Since its conceptualisation, there has been a barrage of investigations and literature on the vagueness and ambiguity of its definition and applicability. There are two main opposing schools of thought the pessimists, usually ecologists and other scien...

The Feedback Control Cycle of Mineral Supply, Increase of Raw Material Efficiency, and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development with regard to non-renewable resources can best be defined in terms of the inter-generational challenge of the Brundtland commission and the intra-generational challenge worked out in Agenda 21 of the 1992 Rio de Janeiro conference of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). In meeting these challenges, the trilemma of security of supply under co...

Energy for Sustainable Development Coherence in energy efficiency governance