Rutger Hoekstra
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr.ir. R. Hoekstra
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- r.hoekstra@cml.leidenuniv.nl
Rutger Hoekstra is a visiting researcher at CML who collaborates on environmental input-output modelling and Beyond-GDP (well-being and sustainability measurement/policy).
More information about Rutger Hoekstra
News
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From growth to well-being: EU should look beyond the economy -
Leiden scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people' -
A future based on Wellbeing, Inclusion and Sustainability, rather than economic growth -
Progress is about much more than GDP alone -
GDP? Get rid of it!
PhD candidates
Professional experience
Rutger Hoekstra has worked on well-being and sustainability from an academic, governmental and business perspective. He has worked with the United Nations, OECD, World Bank, European Commission, European Central Bank and other international organisations. He was the co-chair of the UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Task Force which developed the Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations on Measuring Sustainable Development. In 2019 Cambridge University Press published Replacing GDP by 2030. He has lectured at various universities and published numerous publications on sustainable development, globalisation, circular economy and big data applications. He was also Scientific Director of the True Value methodology at KPMG Sustainability. Rutger Hoekstra is now the owner of MetricsForTheFuture.com, which provides consultancy services to governments, international institutes and companies on Beyond-GDP and Beyond-Profit.
Research topic
Rutger’s research interest include Beyond-GDP, wellbeing/sustainability policy, environmental economics using input-output techniques, environmental accounting, structural decomposition analysis, globalisation, circular economy.
Associate Professor
- Science
- Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden
- CML/Industriele Ecologie
- Hoekstra R. (2024) The global economy’s 200-year growth spurt — and what comes next. Review of: Susskin D. (2024), The global economy’s 200-year growth spurt — and what comes next: Penguin Books. Nature 629: 992-994.
- Liu K., Wang R., Schrijver I.M. & Hoekstra R. (2024), Can we project well-being?: Towards integral well-being projections in climate models and beyond, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11: 457.
- Jansen G.A.J., Wang R., Behrens P. & Hoekstra R. (2024), Beyond GDP: a review and conceptual framework for measuring sustainable and inclusive wellbeing, The Lancet 8(9): e695 - e705.
- Liu K., Wang R., Behrens P.A., Schrijver I.M., Jansen G.A.J., Rum I.A. & Hoekstra R. (2024), A comprehensive Beyond-GDP database to accelerate wellbeing, inclusion, and sustainability research, Scientific Data 11: 1166.
- Rum Irlan A. Tukker Arnold Hoekstra Rutger Koning Arjan de Yusuf Arief. A. (2024), Exploring carbon footprints and carbon intensities of Indonesian provinces in a domestic and global context, Frontiers in Environmental Science 12: .
- Pirmana V., Alisjahbana A.S., Yusuf A.A., Hoekstra R. & Tukker A. (2023), Economic and environmental impact of electric vehicles production in Indonesia, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 25: 1871-1885.
- Pirmana Viktor Alisjahbana Armida Salsiah Yusuf Arief Anshory Hoekstra Rutger Tukker Arnold (2021), Environmental Cost in Indonesia Spillover Effect Between Consumption and Production, Frontiers in Sustainability 2: .
- Pirmana V., Alisjahbana A.S., Yusuf A.A., Hoekstra R. & Tukker A (2021), Environmental costs assessment for improved environmental-economic account for Indonesia, Journal of Cleaner Production 280(Part 1): 124521.
- Rutger Hoekstra (2019), Replacing GDP by 2030: Towards a Common Language for the Well-being and Sustainability Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pirmana V., Alisjahbana A.S., Hoekstra R. & Tukker A. (2019), Implementation Barriers for a System of Environmental-Economic Accounting in Developing Countries and Its Implications for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainability 11(22): 6417.
- Tukker Arnold de Koning Arjan Owen Anne Lutter Stephan Bruckner Martin Giljum Stefan Stadler Konstantin Wood Richard Hoekstra Rutger (2018), Towards Robust, Authoritative Assessments of Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Current State and Recommendations, Journal of Industrial Ecology 22: 585-598.
- Hoekstra Rutger Michel Bernhard Suh Sangwon (2016), The emission cost of international sourcing: using structural decomposition analysis to calculate the contribution of international sourcing to CO2-emission growth, Economic Systems Research 28: 151-167.
- Edens Bram Hoekstra Rutger Zult Daan Lemmers Oscar Wilting Harry Wu Ronghao (2015), A METHOD TO CREATE CARBON FOOTPRINT ESTIMATES CONSISTENT WITH NATIONAL ACCOUNTS, Economic Systems Research 27: 440-457.
- Schoenaker Niels Hoekstra Rutger Smits Jan Pieter (2015), Comparison of Measurement Systems for Sustainable Development at the National Level, Sustainable Development 23: 285-300.
- Hoekstra Rutger Edens Bram Zult Daan Wilting Harry (2014), Reducing the variation of environmental footprint estimates based on multiregional input–output databases, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 5: 325-345.
- Delahaye Roel Hoekstra Rutger Nootenboom Leslie (2010), Analysing the production and treatment of solid waste using a national accounting framework, Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 29: 751-762.
- Hoekstra R. van den Bergh J. C. J. M. (2006), The Impact of Structural Change on Physical Flows in the Economy: Forecasting and Backcasting Using Structural Decomposition Analysis, Land Economics 82: 582-601.
- Hoekstra Rutger van den Bergh Jeroen C.J.M. (2006), Constructing physical input–output tables for environmental modeling and accounting: Framework and illustrations, Ecological Economics 59: 375-393.
- Rutger Hoekstra (2005), Economic Growth, Material Flows and the Environment: New Applications of Structural Decomposition Analysis and Physical Input–Output Tables. London: Edward Elgar.
- Hoekstra Rutger van den Bergh Jeroen C.J.M. (2003), Comparing structural decomposition analysis and index decomposition analysis,, Energy Economics 25: 39-64.
- Hoekstra Rutger van den Bergh Jeroen C.J.M. (2002), Structural Decomposition Analysis of Physical Flows in the Economy, Environmental and Resource Economics 23: 357-378.
- Erik Dietzenbacher and Rutger Hoekstra (2002), The RAS Structural Decomposition Approach. In: , Trade, Networks and Hierarchies. . Heidelberg: Springer.
- Janssen Marco A. van den Bergh Jeroen C. J. M. van Beukering Pieter J. H. Hoekstra Rutger (2001), Changing Industrial Metabolism: Methods for Analysis, Population and Environment 23: 139-156.
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