Resource Productivity and Related Policies Evaluation
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Chiu, Ming-Cheng
Abstract
Throughout the history and until now, either economic or social development depends on the versatile applications of different kinds of resources. But since the Industrial Revolution, the issue of resources depletion and environmental degradation come along with the rapid economic growth. Hence, in order to improve the problems and thus move forward to more sustainable utilization of resources, related study fields especially focuses on how to promote resource productivity and to abate the environmental impact.
“Resource productivity” is an important indicator, examining whether the economic growth and resources usage could decouple. However, since the indicator is sought to be widely applied, the design of it is somehow simplified, which fails to show the overall efficiency of resources use. As a result, the first part of this study is to investigate the inefficiency of the indicator “resource productivity”, and design one that could describe resources use efficiency more completely: “Recycling based Resource Productivity (RRP).”
Any indicator is designed and calculated for observing social environment status, as well as related policies making and the effect evaluation. Therefore, in the second part of this research, two methods “Institutional Analysis and Development” and “program evaluation” are adopted respectively to explain the present operation background of the policy, and assess the possible effects of that policy. Following this thread of thought, resource productivity contributes a more comprehensive indicator for policy goal; Institutional Analysis and Development provides a rather detailed theory policy model; and program evaluation includes those two mentioned before. The interaction among the three factors then builds up an integrated evaluation model of the resource policy effect.
To elucidate the model more concretely, the paper material flow in 2010 Taiwan is selected as the case study to run RRP calculation, and an evaluation method of the policy “Excessive Product Packaging Restrictions” is designed. The result shows that current recycling of paper in Taiwan has raised to over 60%, but the entire usage volume does not seem to decrease. The RRP result, on the other hand, illustrates that the differences of products made from raw material and secondary resource, the divergence between various industries in applying resources, and also, after the benefit of resources re-applied in the future is considered, the whole productivity is around four times the performance of traditional calculation method.
Subjects
resource productivity
Institutional Analysis and Development
program evaluation
paper material flow
Excessive Product Packaging Restrictions
SDGs
Type
thesis
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