From constraint to sufficiency: The decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975–2005

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Transitions in pathways of human development and carbon emissions (2013, background): “The openness of an economy, its export share of GDP, shows a positive relationship with levels of consumption emissions. Unlike York (2007), we find a negative effect of population growth on carbon emissions.”
Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade (2012, background): “Moreover, human development has been steadily decoupling from energy and carbon emission”
Human well‐being and climate change mitigation (2017, background): “This minimum sufficiency threshold is also observed to shift downwards over time.(68,70) A large literature exists linking individual, household or income class consumption to direct and indirect energy use or emissions, usually using environmentally extended input–output frameworks.”
Energy consumption, human well-being and economic development in central and eastern European nations: A cautionary tale of sustainability (2014, background): “However, for decades many sustainability scholars have questioned the extent to which heightened resource use further enhances quality of life once societies have reached certain thresholds of collective well-being (Mazur, 2011; Mazur and Rosa, 1974; Steinberger and Roberts, 2010).”