USE OF SOURCES - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Technická Univerzita v KošiciachEkonomická fakultaIng. Gabriela Koľveková, Ph.D.Katedra ekonomických teórií

USE OF SOURCES - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTIng. Gabriela Koľveková, Ph.D.

Herľany, October 1st –3rd, 2008National and Regional Economy VII.

Content

Objective and methodOutcomes – the backroundOutcomes – the resultsDiscussion offeredConclusion

Objective and Methods

The paper was prepared within project VEGA 1/0211/08– „Economic tools applied in the environment protection of the market economy with the application in the Slovak republic.“state of the art, classification of knowledge on the topic of green economy i.e. scare resources

Green Economy or Sustainable development or ...use of resources?

Hulse (2007)Hunley (2006) The principle: „Scarcity has indirectly lead to some negative externalities arose as a consequence of technologies and technologies are already offering solutions for those externalities.“

Figure 1: The transformatinn process between GNP / welfare and environmental impact

Environmental impact

Environmental output Product

Welfare

Income

Soruce: Jacobs, M. 1991. Green Economy. Environment, Sustainbale Developmetn and the Politics of the Future. Pluto Press, London, ISBN 0 7453 0312 9, p. 103

Figure 2: The transformatinn process: energy consuption

Atmospheric carbon dioxide

Fossil fuel

output

Domestic

energy

Warmth, light, power

Income

Soruce: Jacobs, M. 1991. Green Economy. Environment, Sustainbale Developmetn and the Politics of the Future. Pluto Press, London, ISBN 0 7453 0312 9, p. 104

Disscussion about future - innovation as mediator of the change

Keppler (2007)

a market „...between those affected and those causing the externality is thus missing “

Rohner (2006)

“CCS technology is ready to be rolled out…”

Ahlhaim (2007)

in- and direct methods of welfare measurement

Technology changes externalities into the marketable goods, or is it „just“ an

innternalization?

Conclusion

As for the State of the Art:several impediments (method, obtaining data, correct and unified unit)Hulse (2007)

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Contact:Technical University of KošiceFaculty of EconomicsIng. Gabriela Koľveková, Ph.D.B. Němcovej 32040 01 Košiceph: 00421 55 602 2286e-mail: Gabriela.Kolvekova@tuke.sk