Seit dem Ende der 1980er Jahre wird dem Zusammenhang von Umwelt und menschlicherGesundheit zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Die Tatsache, dass Umweltbelastungenzu gesundheitlichen Problemen führen können, wurde erkannt und man begann auf politischerEbene Maßnahmen zur Risikoreduktion zu...

„In der Wissenschaft ist es sehr selten, dass es zu einer bestimmten Frage einenso eindeutigen Konsens gibt." (Gore 2006: 260).Die Wissenschaftlerin Heike Walk (Walk 2008) hat die Partizipations- undGovernancedebatte auf die Klimapolitik bezogen. Die Autorin belegt die...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate activities to address climate change and stock performance. By separately analyzing the US and European stock markets for different sub-periods, we highlight the impact of the underlying climate policy regime. Methodologically, we compare...

The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local capabilities of both institutions and the private business sector. Environmental regulation alone is a weak instrument if the institutional and business environment cannot...

Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past decade. PES policies, in particular, have emerged to realign private and social benefits such as internalizing ecological externalities...

We investigate the impact of environmental regulation on firm performance and Investment behavior. Exploiting the case of a German water withdrawal regulation that is managed on the state level, we analyze firms' reactions to an increase in the water tax using a regression-adjusted...

We investigate the impact of environmental regulation on firm performance and investment behavior. Exploiting the case of a German water withdrawal regulation that is managed on the state level, we analyze firms’ reactions to an increase in the water tax using a regression- adjusted...