World Mineral resources and the Limits to Economic Growth

World Mineral resources and the Limits to Economic Growth

This presentation describes how the present economic situation can be described in terms of the system dynamics models developed in the series of studies that were titled “The Limits to Growth”. The result of this examination is that mineral depletion may be a major factor in causing the slowdown i...

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Main Author: Bardi Ugo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2014-03-01
Series:E3S Web of Conferences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20140202001
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spelling doaj-2c4b2dd6261d48838e35eb0e279b69af2021-03-02T08:12:39ZengEDP SciencesE3S Web of Conferences2267-12422014-03-0120200110.1051/e3sconf/20140202001e3sconf_sf2013_02001World Mineral resources and the Limits to Economic GrowthBardi Ugo This presentation describes how the present economic situation can be described in terms of the system dynamics models developed in the series of studies that were titled “The Limits to Growth”. The result of this examination is that mineral depletion may be a major factor in causing the slowdown in economic growth in several countries. The effect is not the result of “running out” of any resource, but of the gradual increase in extraction costs which is forcing the economy to dedicate larger and larger resources to the production of mineral commodities. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20140202001
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description This presentation describes how the present economic situation can be described in terms of the system dynamics models developed in the series of studies that were titled “The Limits to Growth”. The result of this examination is that mineral depletion may be a major factor in causing the slowdown in economic growth in several countries. The effect is not the result of “running out” of any resource, but of the gradual increase in extraction costs which is forcing the economy to dedicate larger and larger resources to the production of mineral commodities.
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