The challenges of resource efficiency and appropriate strategies. A special issue in “SAPIENS”

In May 2011, the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting launched its long-awaited green growth strategy. Though not entirely new in content, it is an interesting approach at a time when the financial crisis is not yet over and the forthcoming Rio+20 Earth Summit may not bring real progress  on the issues at stake. The green growth approach suggests economic opportunities that may start as recovery programmes for sluggish economies and, hopefully, can be turned into stable eco-innovation pathways. ...