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Journal

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

ISSN:

0921-3449

Journal article

The rebound effect on water extraction from subsidising irrigation infrastructure in Australia

Australia has spent more than $6 billion to reallocate water to environmental purposes. Most of this money has subsidised infrastructure, despite its lack of cost-effectiveness. This article highlights four key lessons on how to respond to these water governance challenges.
Journal article

Total material requirement for the global energy transition to 2050: a focus on transport and electricity

This research emphasizes the importance of designing resource cycles simultaneously with the energy transition, and the need for collaboration between energy-mineral sectors, which tend to be considered separately at present.
Assessment

Waste not, want not: a bio-economic impact assessment of household food waste reductions in the EU

Highlights Assessment of food waste reduction impact needs to include economic and biophysical indicators. Economy-wide models as proposed in this paper can account for all market and non-market impacts of reducing food waste. Reducing households' food waste increases savings; it decreases agri-food production and to a minor extent GDP. Environmental indicators are improving as EU...
Journal article

Circular economy indicators: what do they measure?

To understand what indicators used in CE measure specifically, the authors propose a classification framework to categorise indicators according to reasoning on what (CE strategies) and how (measurement scope).
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