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Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability

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Physical growth of society and related environmental burden has gained an international attention in the last decade. Focus on delinking economy growth from resource consumption was put on the top of international and national policy. Despite some improvement in resource productivity was achieved, growing demand resulted in overall increase in resource consumption (Jackson 2009). Many environmental measures and efficiency gains were outweighed by unsustainable extraction, production and consumption patterns. Therefore the need to re-examine recent development patterns and to put higher priority to absolute decoupling processes is of importance.

Research was conducted during internships at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany). For this opportunity I would like to thank German Environmental Foundation (DBU) and Wuppertal Institute. I also would like to thank Professor Raimund Bleischwitz for supervision and useful comments.

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    Renata Dagiliūtė

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Dagiliūtė, R. (2011). Material and Energy Consumption in Lithuania: Towards Sustainability. In: Bleischwitz, R., Welfens, P., Zhang, Z. (eds) International Economics of Resource Efficiency. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2601-2_10

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