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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...

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Sustainable and Smart Cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...

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Globalization and environment in India

Marjit, Sugata; Yu, Eden Siu-hung - 2018

growth and in turn benefits from the low pollution content of growth. This also calls for serious exploration of green … liberalization on other climatic aspects, such as water pollution and land salinity, with the help of large scientific databases. But … the fact remains that only through trade can countries replace the local production of pollution intensive goods with …

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Do retail investors value environmental impact? : a lab-in-the-field experiment with crowdfunders

Siemroth, Christoph; Hornuf, Lars - 2021

Are investors willing to give up a higher return if the investment generates positive environmental impact? We investigate this question with a decision experiment among crowdfunders, where they choose between a higher return or environmental impact. Overall, 65% of investors choose...

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Strategic approaches to CO2 emissions : the case of the cement industry and of the chemical industry

Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - 2014

The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...

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Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets

Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2017

Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an economy composed of two reproducible assets, each...

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An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development

Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2013

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...

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Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability : a taxonomy of assumptions and results

Asheim, Geir B. - 2002

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability accounting. I consider five different assumptions that can be imposed independently of each other, producing 32 different combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results...

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Generous sustainability

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2014 - This draft: 14 November, 2014

I define "generous sustainability" as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is shown...

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Addressing marine litter through sustainable tourism : the case of the Siargao Islands in the Southern Philippines

Serrona, Kevin Roy B.; Yu, Jeongsoo; Camarin, Mary Jean A. - 2022

Marine litter seriously affects island-based or archipelagic economies. The Philippines is an example of a country at the center of this predicament due to its strategic geographic location as a regional trade route. Urbanization, rapid economic development, and the population increase are some...

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