Stefan Giljum, Christian Lutz, Ariane Jungnitz, Martin Bruckner, and Friedrich Hinterberger
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199584505
- eISBN:
- 9780191725012
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584505.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Europe's economy is to a significant and growing degree dependent on imports of natural resources from other world regions. While the overall level of resource use in Europe has stabilized in the ...
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Europe's economy is to a significant and growing degree dependent on imports of natural resources from other world regions. While the overall level of resource use in Europe has stabilized in the past 20 years, a shift of the environmental burden through international trade can be observed, with growing physical imports and associated indirect material flows and increasing substitution of domestic material extraction, in particular with regard to fossil fuels and metal ores. Based on the results of a new trade-material flow model, this chapter analyses the physical dimension of European trade relations with other world regions and the implications for EU policies aiming to increase resource productivity.Less
Europe's economy is to a significant and growing degree dependent on imports of natural resources from other world regions. While the overall level of resource use in Europe has stabilized in the past 20 years, a shift of the environmental burden through international trade can be observed, with growing physical imports and associated indirect material flows and increasing substitution of domestic material extraction, in particular with regard to fossil fuels and metal ores. Based on the results of a new trade-material flow model, this chapter analyses the physical dimension of European trade relations with other world regions and the implications for EU policies aiming to increase resource productivity.
