Modelling Sustainability Performance to Achieve Absolute Reductions in Socio-Ecological Systems
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

As the world’s natural resources dwindle and critical levels of environmental pollution are approached, sustainability becomes a key issue for governments, organisations and individuals. With the consequences of such an issue in mind, this paper introduces a unifying approach to measure the sustainability performance of socio-economic systems based on the interplay between two key variables: essentiality of consumption and environmental impact. This measure attributes to every system a ‘fitness’ value i.e. a quantity that reflects its ability to remain resilient/healthy by avoiding ecological, social and economic collapse as it consumes the available resources. This new measure is tested on a system where there is a limited supply of resources and four basic consumption types. The analysis has theoretical implications as well as practical importance as it can help countries, organisations or even individuals, in finding better ways to measure sustainability performance.

Absolute reductions

Sustainability management

Systems dynamics

Modelling

Sustainability performance

Författare

Breno Nunes

Aston University

Roberto Alamino

Aston University

Duncan Shaw

University of Manchester

David Bennett

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Supply and Operations Management

Journal of Cleaner Production

0959-6526 (ISSN)

Vol. 132 32-44

Ämneskategorier

Annan teknik

Företagsekonomi

Styrkeområden

Produktion

DOI

10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.037

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