Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences

Permanent URI for this communityhttp://10.10.97.169:4000/handle/123456789/19

Browse

Browsing Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences by Author "Ancelm, Gudila"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Toward environmental sustainability: a comparative analysis between Brazil and India
    (Aalborg University, 2015) Andrade, Daniel Caixeta; Bhar, Soumyajit; Ancelm, Gudila
    This article performs a comparative analysis between Brazil and India in terms of environmental sustainability over the period 1970 to 2008. To do so, we employed the following selected indicators: the domestic material consumption, the material intensity, the metabolic rate, the ecological footprint and bio-capacity, the ecological deficit/surplus and the adjusted net savings. Prior to this comparison exercise, we briefly describe the socioeconomic performance over the study period, indicating important changes in the economic and social dimensions in both countries, which certainly affected the environmental domain. The indicators utilised in this study suggest that India is performing better than Brazil in a sustainability point of view, with the ecological deficit/surplus indicator as an exception. We also performed a statistical analysis to measure the correlation between economic growth and the selected sustainability indicators. The results revalidate the fact that there is a major compromise, across economies, between economic development and sustainability of an economy. Although through some detailed intra-economic analysis it is shown that Brazil’s economy is decarbonizing in the study period, however on a comparative scale Brazil’s economy is leaving more externality of its environment. It is also highlighted that policy shifts do not reflect to that extent in sustainability indicators as the stage of development of an economy does. Finally a projection based analysis revealed that India will be achieving the same level of human development as Brazil at a much lower cost of environmental externality. From this it can be established that Indian economy is more sustainable that Brazil’s one. As final remarks, some policy recommendations are emphasized in the light of this analysis.