Ecological Currency. A New Approach in Sustainable Development. In the 21st Century in Relationship to Climate Change and Human Imprint Impacts

Journal title RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Author/s Hanna Safwat H. Shakir, Gian Paolo Cesaretti, Rosa Misso, Irvin Osborne-Lee
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 13-24 File size 164 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2016-001003
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This article focuses on the importance of the carbon currency as a fundamental tool to support sustainability. Starting from a theoretical approach and underlining the significance of an ecological currency in regenerating the resources and conserve the existing natural resources in the paper it has been proposed the use of a carbon currency. This last is crucial because it is important a type of currency that will be a measure to discuss the climate change impacts. More precisely, the impacts of human imprints and climate changes are important to be discussed and to be connected to the carbon currency which can measure quantitatively the release of carbon dioxide and other warming gases that are harming the environment and cause problems to the natural resources which allow to produce goods and services that we are using daily in our life.

Questo articolo si concentra sull’importanza della valuta carbonio come strumento fondamentale per raggiungere la sostenibilità. Partendo da un approccio teorico e sottolineando il significato di una valuta ecologica rispetto alla rigenerazione ed alla conservazione delle risorse naturali esistenti, nell’articolo è stato proposto l’uso di una valuta carbonio. Si tratta di un tipo di valuta cruciale in quanto essa rappresenta una misura per discutere gli impatti del cambiamento climatico. Più precisamente, l’impatto dell’impronta umana e dei cambiamenti climatici sono importanti da discutere e da collegare alla valuta carbonio che può misurare quantitativamente il rilascio di biossido di carbonio e altri gas serra che stanno danneggiando l’ambiente e causando problemi alle risorse naturali che permettono di produrre beni e servizi che stiamo usando tutti i giorni nella nostra vita.

Keywords: Ecological currency, sustainable development, sustainable economy, carbon currency, climate change

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Hanna Safwat H. Shakir, Gian Paolo Cesaretti, Rosa Misso, Irvin Osborne-Lee, Ecological Currency. A New Approach in Sustainable Development. In the 21st Century in Relationship to Climate Change and Human Imprint Impacts in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 1/2016, pp 13-24, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2016-001003