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Escalating Resource Use: Securing Resources for the Future

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Responsible Consumption and Production

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

Definitions

Consumption:

The action of using up a resource.

Environment:

The ecology, air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.

Escalate:

Become or make more intense.

Decoupling:

Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else

Dematerialization:

Become free of physical substance.

Green growth:

Is a term to describe a path of economic growth that uses natural resources in a sustainable manner.

Natural resources:

Things such as minerals, forests, coal, etc. that exist in a place and can be used by people.

Renewable:

A natural resource or source of energy that is not depleted by use, such as water, wind, or solar power.

Nonrenewable:

Existing in finite quantity; not capable of being replenished.

Productivity:

Defined as a ratio of a volume measure of output to a volume measure of input use.

Profitability:

The degree to which a business or activity yields profit or financial gain.

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Materials in this manuscript including tables and figures are extracted from the author’s work-in-progress PhD thesis. Information derived from the published or unpublished work of others has been acknowledged in the text; figures and a list of references are given.

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Burton-Tairu, Z.O. (2019). Escalating Resource Use: Securing Resources for the Future. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_72-1

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