PPT-Materials Economy

Extraction Definition Taking natural resources from the earth Examples wood coal minerals fossil fuels water plants animals and soil Production Definition Adding energy and chemicals to natural resources to make products. m. atching long-term ambitions . with short-term actions . Dr. Hans . Bruyninckx. EEA Executive Director. Informal Council of Environment Ministers. Milan, 16. th. July 2014. The 7th EAP: a long term vision of sustainability . Megatrends: the collisions. August 2014. www.pwc.co.uk. The Sharing Economy: Key Messages. The ‘sharing economy’ uses . digital platforms. to allow customers to have . access. to, rather than ownership of, tangible and intangible assets. This . Horizon?. Aleksandar. (Sasha) . Tomic. , Ph.D.. Trends to watch. DEMOGRAPHIC. Influx of population into SE . US. Aging. Immigration (and non-immigrants). ECONOMIC. US Economy. Labor Market. Oil prices. Jørgen. . Abild. Andersen. Chair, OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy. 1. Economic crisis: Rough recovery. High . Performance of the ICT Sector. 3. Top 250 ICT . firms, Index 2000-13 . (*) Estimates based . Junhui Qian. 2015 September. Chinese Economy. The most populous country (1.3 billion. ) with a . huge labor force (787.6 . million in 2012).. One of the . most rapidly growing . economies.. The largest trading nation in the world (USD . Government Intervention. In a market economy, individuals (businesses, corporations, etc) , along with the forces of supply and demand, answer the basic problem of scarcity.. However, there are many cases in free market economies where the government has chosen to become involved in the economy.. By Kevin . Zeese. and Margaret Flowers. Co-directors, It’s Our Economy. www.itsoureconomy.us. 1. Describe the current economic and political environments and where they are going.. 2. Describe the two-pronged approach to change economic and political power.. Problems with our economy. What is an economy . Economy - An . Economy is the wealth and resource of a country or region.. . Our U.S. Economy 6 years ago was at a stable stand point. Over the past 6 years we have dealt with some of the hardest times in our U.S. history with a huge decrease of our economy. We are at an all time low in this year of 2012. millions are out of jobs, millions are homeless, we are in $16 trillion dollars of debt, and it is hard to think things will be getting any better.. Cass R. Sunstein. What Are We Worried About?. Consumer savings? Money? Time? (“Internalities” vs. . externalities.). Greenhouse gas emissions?. Other air pollutants?. Energy security?. Anything else?. Presentation to JAMPRO Workshop. August 30, 2016. Structure of the presentation. Conceptualization . Issues. Global, regional, national. Operational Issues. Case studies: Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago. Where are we?. Circular. . Economy. Nature says : Matter Matters. What do Belgium and Wallonia say?. Are we there Yet?. Circular. . Economy. In Belgium : 95% of ALL paper products and packaging ( including plastics and metals) is collected, sorted and recycled locally or not. Dr. John Barry. Queens University Belfast. j.barry@qub.ac.uk. Basic co-ordinating institutions of human society. (Nation)-State . – 300-400 years. Market . – ‘truck and barter’ (c.12,000 years/settled agriculture), modern industrial/capitalist economy (c.250 years). iophysical. EQUILIBRIUM AND MORAL GROWTH - . Daly. Daly, Herman . (editor).. . Toward a Steady-State Economy. . Freeman. San Francisco 1973. pp 149-174. Ben . Kreisman. ; Ecological Economics. Fragmentation of knowledge and people by excessive specialization. Giovanni . Fosti. *, . Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Notarnicola. g. iovanni.fosti@unibocconi.it. CeRGAS. Centre for . Research. on Health and Social Care Management. 4th . International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care .