Resource Use in Small Island States
Summary Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago are small open, high‐income island economies with very specific resource‐use patterns. This article presents a material flow analysis (MFA) for the two countries covering a time period of nearly five decades. Both countries have a narrow domestic resource base...
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crwiley:10.1111/jiec.12100 2024-09-15T18:13:35+00:00 Resource Use in Small Island States Material Flows in Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2008 Krausmann, Fridolin Richter, Regina Eisenmenger, Nina Austrian Science Fund FWF 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12100 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjiec.12100 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jiec.12100 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/jiec.12100 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Journal of Industrial Ecology volume 18, issue 2, page 294-305 ISSN 1088-1980 1530-9290 journal-article 2014 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12100 2024-08-09T04:23:30Z Summary Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago are small open, high‐income island economies with very specific resource‐use patterns. This article presents a material flow analysis (MFA) for the two countries covering a time period of nearly five decades. Both countries have a narrow domestic resource base, their economy being largely based on the exploitation of one or two key resources for export production. In the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the physical economy is dominated by oil and natural gas extraction and petrochemical industries, whereas Iceland's economy for centuries has been based on fisheries. More recently, abundant hydropower and geothermal heat were the basis for the establishment of large export‐oriented metal processing industries, which fully depend on imported raw materials and make use of domestic renewable electricity. Both countries are highly dependent on these natural resources and vulnerable to overexploitation and price developments. We show how the export‐oriented industries lead to high and growing levels of per capita material and energy use and carbon dioxide emissions resulting from large amounts of processing wastes and energy consumption in production processes. The example of small open economies with an industrial production system focused on few, but abundant, key resources and of comparatively low complexity provides interesting insights of how resource endowment paired with availability or absence of infrastructure and specific institutional arrangements drives domestic resource‐use patterns. This also contributes to a better understanding and interpretation of MFA indicators, such as domestic material consumption. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library Journal of Industrial Ecology 18 2 294 305 |
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Summary Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago are small open, high‐income island economies with very specific resource‐use patterns. This article presents a material flow analysis (MFA) for the two countries covering a time period of nearly five decades. Both countries have a narrow domestic resource base, their economy being largely based on the exploitation of one or two key resources for export production. In the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the physical economy is dominated by oil and natural gas extraction and petrochemical industries, whereas Iceland's economy for centuries has been based on fisheries. More recently, abundant hydropower and geothermal heat were the basis for the establishment of large export‐oriented metal processing industries, which fully depend on imported raw materials and make use of domestic renewable electricity. Both countries are highly dependent on these natural resources and vulnerable to overexploitation and price developments. We show how the export‐oriented industries lead to high and growing levels of per capita material and energy use and carbon dioxide emissions resulting from large amounts of processing wastes and energy consumption in production processes. The example of small open economies with an industrial production system focused on few, but abundant, key resources and of comparatively low complexity provides interesting insights of how resource endowment paired with availability or absence of infrastructure and specific institutional arrangements drives domestic resource‐use patterns. This also contributes to a better understanding and interpretation of MFA indicators, such as domestic material consumption. |
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