eprintid: 1406533 rev_number: 31 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/40/65/33 datestamp: 2013-09-22 18:45:14 lastmod: 2021-10-09 22:53:23 status_changed: 2016-11-18 17:13:46 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Steger, S creators_name: Bleischwitz, R title: Drivers for the use of materials across countries ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F34 keywords: Drivers; Decoupling; MFA; Regression analysis note: Copyright © 2010. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. abstract: This paper analyses drivers for resource use and material productivity acrosscountries. This is not only relevant in light of soaring raw material prices but also because EU policies, such as the ‘Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources’ (COM [2005] 670), the EU Raw Materials Initiative (COM [2008] 699) and various similar policies internationally, seek to better manage materials along their life-cycle and across economies. In order to better understand the system dynamics of material use, our paper applies methodologies of material flow analysis and regression analysis to identify the major drivers for resource use and decoupling from GDP. Drivers are understood as those factors that exert influence on human activities to use resources. A panel data set is taken for the European Union for the years 1980–2000 (EU-15) and 1992–2000 (EU-25). The main drivers of resource use were found to be energy efficiency, new dwellings and roads construction activities. Shortcomings of the methodology are also discussed. date: 2011-05 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.08.016 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 903347 doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.08.016 lyricists_name: Bleischwitz, Raimund lyricists_id: RBLEI92 full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Cleaner Production volume: 19 number: 8 pagerange: 816-826 issn: 0959-6526 citation: Steger, S; Bleischwitz, R; (2011) Drivers for the use of materials across countries. Journal of Cleaner Production , 19 (8) pp. 816-826. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.08.016 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.08.016>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1406533/1/Bleischweitz_3771_Steger.pdf