Industrial mass production on the basis of cheap raw material and fossil fuels, which has evolved as the economic Leitbild of the 20th century has reached its critical limits. The environmental impacts of fossil fuels are threatening both the environment and further economic development. Changes...

Global environmental governance is necessarily multi-actor, multi-sectoral and multi-level. The Rio model of governance has so far provided an adequate answer. It is the only model that takes into account the highly complex actor configuration. A reform could therefore remain essentially...

The subject of this paper is the importance of the diffusion of environmental innovations between countries for the global development of environmental policy. Empirical observation has shown that national environmental initiatives are often rapidly adopted by other countries; thus, these...

This short, argumentative paper reflects the necessity and the spectrum of possible modes of policy intervention for sustainable resource use. The focus is on material productivity and its environmental, economic and employment advantages. A variety of possible interventions along the supply...