Ivan Gyulai Natural Resource Use Management PDF

Principles of natural resource
management and potential tools for

resource capping
Iván Gyulai
gyulai@ecolinst.hu
Environmental indicators
Pressure
Driving force (sectors affect)
(strategies policies) e.g. emission
e.g. fossil fuel use
State
Response e.g. climate change
(of society)
e.g. energy tax
Impact
(on society)
e.g. less agricultural
products
Problem statement
• Drivers: Making more products to meet the needs of a consumer

society. We must intensify production as capitalists want profit
• Pressures: People mobilize resources from geological storages, and in
the same time reduce the extension of ecosystems
• These are extra burdens for the existing biogeochemistry of the Planet
• State: Biogeochemistry can’t keep its equilibrium, a structural change
becomes true (e.g. GHG)
• A new structure means a new function (e.g. climate change)
• Impact: decreasing biodiversity, less carrying capacity
• Response: Multinational environmental agreements, EU sustainability
policy, Emission trading
Why current mitigation policies
fail?
• To mitigate climate • The direct link to
change or biodiversity loss is
biodiversity loss the growing
failed because environmental
policies do not pressure
target the • It comes from
underlying causes drivers, which link
to economic growth
Response
• Response can target the underlying causes

(cultural level) – prevention
• Response can target the structural level –
mitigation
• Response can target the impact -
compensation
Future Scenario I. Business as usual
compensation
Scenario II. Eco-efficiency
Mitigation
The myth of eco-efficiency
• High tech leads to bigger efficiency in using resources (eco-
efficiency)
• High tech results labour efficiency, competitiveness and less
working place
• Growing capital income from efficiency results bigger
investment potential
• It results growing number of production and service facilities
• It results new demand for human resources
• It results growing pressure on the environment (efficient use, but
growing demand for space and resource, growing beyond
carrying capacity)
The myth of knowledge first
• Knowledge is just knowledge

• SD requires long term consideration of
social and environmental impacts of the
economy
• Long term consideration supposes wisdom
in using knowledge
What sustainable resource use
means?
• We must reduce the • When we use natural
pressure! resources we put
pressure to the space
• We make three
and pollute the
different types of environment
pressure to the
environment by • When we pollute
environment we put
carrying out our pressure on resources
human activities and space
• These three types of • When we use space we
pressure go together put pressure on
resources and pollute
environment
What sustainable use means
• Do not grow beyond • Two parallel targets:
carrying capacity
1. Maximise eco-
efficiency
2. Put a resource cap on
total energy
consumption
Scenario III. Sustainable resource
use - prevention
The iceberg of cause-effects
State
Pressure
Structural level
Institution level
Cultural level
The idea of a national non
renewable resource budget
v An integrating set of tools to manage environmental, social

and economic crises.
Regulation of resource input
n Outputs comes from n There is still need to
inputs regulate emissions (e.g.
n Less input means less toxics)
resource use, less use of n Legal regulation
land, and less emission
n Production and
consumption patterns to be
changed
n Economic incentives
What is the national non-renewable
resource budget?
n The aim is to reduce non- n All users have personal
renewable resource use allowance (called quota –
year by year right to consume)
n A national cap and share n Users trade with savings
(trade) system for n A new type of money
resources instead of GHG becoming into the system,
emission capping called quota-money
n Users are grouped, get a
cap and share
How quota money born?
rest Sell Quota-money

Balance of
Personal units and real
allocation units consumption exchange
(quota)
need buy quota
The quota money
n The quota money is a n Quota money has zero interest
complementary currency/new n Turnover is secured by the
currency pressure of saving needs
n Complementary currency n There is an exchange for the
requires financial security – quota money including a fee
guarantee
n In this case the forint is the
guarantee at the managing
organisation
n New currency: the quarantee is
the future energy savings and
the work associated.
Quota money fro what?
n An internal local market n Credit for investments in order
established for environmentally to produce the appropriate
sound goods and services goods for the internal market or
n The market is free, must meet save energy
with requirements
n Excludes certain goods
Revolving Fund
n Revolving Fund is a n Credit covers all costs of
financial instrument to investment, and returns at
have sufficient amount of 100% to the fund from the
credit savings
n Revolving Fund uses the n Saving create quota
quota money for crediting money
n Zero interest – low speed n Speed of return depends
return is possible on speed of saving
We need room for interaction to renew
resources and keep processes at the right
track
The traffic light concept
Red: intensive use of
areas (agricultural
land, forest,
setlements,
industry)
• Yellow: sustainable
use
• Green: non use
Stage I. Introduce regulatory
framework
Paying tax on
intensive use
(modest tax, lot of
people)
• Incentives for
sustainable use
• State buys, no
expense
Stage II.
Increasing tax
• People move to
sustainable use and
non use
Stage III.
Tax is increased
(hard tax, less people
in the red)
• More and more
people move to
sustainable use and
non use
Stage IV.
Tax is eliminated
• sustainable use
ensures that there is
minimal negative
external pressure
on the non use area
Conclusions
We are not allowed to change the structure of
the global system!
• If we changed the structure and the function
is changing we have to adapt to these
changes
• We force ourselves into an adaption trap
• We and many others might not adapt
How to solve the problem?
• Limit the inputs (total energy and material consumption)
• Value resources by limiting them
• Change production and consumption towards a less energy
and material intensive pattern
• Consider space, resource and emission equally for
sustainable resource use
Build understanding of sustainability
• Change perception towards development/quality of life
• Change values
• Build new moral

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Principles of natural resource

management and potential tools for

• Drivers: Making more products to meet the needs of a consumer

• Response can target the underlying causes

• Knowledge is just knowledge

v An integrating set of tools to manage environmental, social

rest Sell Quota-money

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