A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of Global Consumption Economic, Environmental, and Social Effects of Pre-Pandemic World Trade 1990–2015

This book adds a whole new dimension to the editors’ previous work on the social, economic, and environmental effects of global trade. For the first time it brings all three pillars of sustainability together into one coherent multiregional input–output (MRIO) framework. It shows the power of MRIO analysis to illuminate the local and global interdependencies of economic, environmental, and social systems and the benefits to be gained through analysing all three together. Change one thing and everything else changes. With chapters from around 60 researchers across 34 countries, this book illustrates the effect of natural resources and government policy settings 1990–2015 on the balancing act that was—and is—global trade. It provides a holistic systems’ view of how supply chains work, revealing how easily they can become fragmented and out of kilter. And within all the chaos of COVID-19 it shows how MRIO is the one tool that can help rebuild a post-pandemic global economy into a fairer, safer world.

Part 1: Introduction 1. A Global Perspective on Sustainable Development Kirsten S. Wiebe 2. Deepening of Global Value Chains Norihiko Yamano and Kirsten S. Wiebe 3. Money Cannot Compensate for Entropy: Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Decoupling of Economics from Reality Alf Hornborg 4. Is It the End of World (Trade) as We Know It? Changes in Global Trade Patterns after the Outbreak of COVID-19 André Carrascal Incera, Esteban Fernández Vázquez, and Mònica Serrano 5. Meauring Impacts in Global Value Chains through Consumption-Based Accounting Moana Simas Part 2: Europe 6. Europe: A Resource-Dependent Region with Strong Sustainability-Oriented Policies Moana Simas 7. European Union: Protecting the Environment while Securing Jobs and Growth José ManuelRueda-Cantuche 8. Austria Barbara Plank, Nina Eisenmenger, and Dominik Wiedenhofer 9. Bulgaria Diana Ivanova 10. France: International Resources for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Future? Yannick Oswald 11. Germany Lisa Becker and Christian Lutz 12. Italy Tullio Gregori 13. The Netherlands Glenn A. Aguilar-Hernandez, João F. D. Rodrigues, and Arnold Tukker 14. Norway: Rich + Green = Sustainable? Carl-Johan Södersten and Sarah Schmidt 15. Sweden: An Environmental Success Story Sarah Schmidtand Carl-Johan Södersten 16. The UK: A Proud Leader, or Dishonest User of Statistics Simon Mair and Angela Druckman 17. Poland Marta Baltruszewicz 18. Transition of Slovakia toward a Modern Market Economy Martin Lábaj 19. Spain Paola Rocchi and Juan-Manuel Valderas Jaramillo Part 3: Africa 20. Africa as Net Exporter of Natural Resources and Pollution Martin P. de Wit 21. South Africa: The Sideways Drift of a Jobless Coal-and-Carbon Nexus Martin P.de Wit 22. Ghana Takako Wakiyama 23. Kenya Sofía Jiménez Calvo 24. Morocco Patrizio Lecca and Giovanni Mandras 25. Malawi PatrizioLecca and Giovanni Mandras Part 4: The Americas 26. The Americas: On Track toward Sustainable Development? Jorge Gómez-Paredes 27. Ecuador: A Traditional Development Path Jorge Gómez-Paredes, Sofía Rojo, and Jordi Cravioto 28. Bolivia Andrés Escobar Espinoza and Bernardo Romero Torres 29. Nicaragua: Central America’s Green Lung. But How much Longer? Sarah Schmidt and Carl-Johan Södersten 30. Brazil Alessandra Maria Giacomin and Sergio Almeida Pacca 31. ColombiaLina I. Brand-Correa 32. Mexico: 20 Years of North American Free-Trade Agreement. Socio-Environmental Trends and Unequal Exchange Gibran Vita 33. Argentina: Energy Transition to a Cleaner Economy María Priscila Ramos and Carlos Adrián Romero 34. Chile Loreto Bieritz 35. United States of America T. Reed Miller and Catherine Benoit Norris Part 5: Asia and Oceania 36. Asia and Oceania: Mutual Outsourcing Partners Keisuke Nansai 37. China Yafei Wang 38. Japan Takako Wakiyama 39. Indonesia Futu Faturay 40. Russia Kirill Muradov 41. Australia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Jacob Fry, Murray Hall, and Barney Foran 42. New Zealand John Holt Part 6: Middle East 43. Middle East: The Dilemma of Oil, Water, and Development Moslem Yousefzadeh and Syed Muhammad Hassan Ali 44. Iran Moslem Yousefzadeh 45. Iraq Syed Muhammad Hassan Ali

Joy Murray is a senior research fellow with the Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group at the School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia. Before joining ISA, Dr. Murray worked for over 25 years in education, preschool to postgraduate. She has also worked with residents of government housing estates to collaboratively develop leadership capacity. Anne Owen is an academic fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK. Dr. Owen has a background in end-use energy demand and consumption-based energy and carbon accounting using state-of-the-art MRIO databases. She is responsible for constructing the model being used to calculate theUK’s carbon and material footprint—the statistics reported annually by the UK Government. Moana Simas is a researcher at the Sustainable Energy Technologies group at SINTEF, one of the largest independent research organizations in Europe. She has a background in environmental sciences and energy systems. Her current work focusses on assessing triple bottom line impacts of technology change, climate policies, and circular economy strategies on local and global value chains. Arunima Malik is an academic at the University of Sydney. She has expertise in undertaking Big-Data modelling of sustainability performance of products, processes, and organisations, and to quantify sustainability impacts at local, national, and global scales. She works closely with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network for undertaking assessments for quantifying spillover effects in international supply chains.