Technická Univerzita v Košiciach Ekonomická fakulta Ing. Gabriela Koľveková, Ph.D. Katedra ekonomických teórií USE OF SOURCES - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Ing. Gabriela Koľveková, Ph.D. Herľany, October 1 st –3 rd, 2008 National and Regional Economy VII.

Content Objective and method Outcomes – the backround Outcomes – the results Discussion offered Conclusion

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 Green Economy. Environment, Sustainbale Developmetn and the Politics of the Future. Pluto Press, London, ISBN , p. 103

Figure 2: The transformatinn process: energy consuption Atmospheric carbon dioxide Fossil fuel output Domestic energy Warmth, light, power Income Soruce: Jacobs, M Green Economy. Environment, Sustainbale Developmetn and the Politics of the Future. Pluto Press, London, ISBN , 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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