Purpose: Increasing online retailing leads to increased transportation processes on individual levels, which is impacting the environment negatively. Consequently, logistics needs ecological sustainable concepts to reduce its anthropogenic emissions, especially in physical distribution. The...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an environmental management tool, whose function is to predict and manage possible impacts arising from a given project. With the emergence of new European legislation, there is a need to implement new procedures that make environmental impact assessment...

Many studies examine the effect of environmental values on environmental behavior. In such empirical analyses it is typically at least implicitly assumed that environmental values are independent of economic preferences from behavioral economics like risk and time preferences, trust, or...

In order to analyze the degree of development of economic systems for the two agriculture types, conventional and ecological, as well as the "survival" capacity and the direction of their development, it is necessary to take into account the correct definition and measurement of the economic...

This study proposes a consistent definition of natural disaster damage costs, i.e., equivalently, of natural disaster prevention benefits in accordance with general definition of benefits, Willingness to Pay, more concretely, Equivalent Variation, of any policy such as tax reforms,...

Recent evidence points to an increase in consumers' willingness to pay for sustainable goods, i.e., social responsibility. What is the optimal policy response to such a shift in preferences? Advancing social responsibility suggests a demand-driven transition to sustainable production. This paper...