Like in several sectors of consumer demand, attitudes, believes, and the political environment may also influence the worldwide demand for tourism. Consequentially, this thesis concentrates on a wider range of determinants including non-economical factors of tourism demand and supply in both the...

Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier dokumentiert die Ergebnisse eines Workshops, den das DIW im Auftrag von Greenpeace Deutschland durchgeführt hat. Ziel des Workshops war es, zur Klärung der Konsequenzen eines - aufgrund ökologischer Grenzen für Energie- und Materialströme - verringerten...

In early September 2014, about 4.000 scientists, activists and artists at the 4th International Conference on Degrowth sent out two messages. 1. Industrialized societies will change, either by disaster or by design. Accelerated resource exploitation and climate change can force societies into a...

Factoring sustainable development into the appraisal of investment projects is a topical issue at both the analytical and the decision-making level. In the area of analysis, we find numerous studies and research projects devoted to the assessment of environmental damage and its translation into...