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Foundations for an ecological macroeconomics : literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter A.; Kratena, Kurt; … - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426487
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The System Dynamics of Forest Cover in the Developing World: Researcher <em>Versus </em>Community Perspectives
Olabisi, Laura Schmitt - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 6, pp. 1523-1535
Efforts to increase forest cover in the developing world will only succeed if the root causes of deforestation are … addressed. Researchers designing reforestation initiatives tend to emphasize macro-level drivers of deforestation, about which … they have extensive data and knowledge. On the other hand, local people have contextually based knowledge of forest cover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683174
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Foundations for an ecological macroeconomics: Literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter; Kratena, Kurt; … - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411040
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Karl Marx: Herakles oder Sisyphos?Eine philosophische und ökonomische Untersuchung
Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - 2012
Die Diskussion um Karl Marx ist lange Zeit nur ideologisch positionell geführt worden. Wer sich nicht als Gegner oder Befürworter der Marxschen Lehre erklärte, hatte es schwer, in dieser Diskussion Gehör zu finden. Im letzten Viertel des vorigen Jahrhunderts hat jedoch sowohl in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422232
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Karl Marx: Herakles oder Sisyphos? : eine philosophische und ökonomische Untersuchung
Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - 2012
Die Diskussion um Karl Marx ist lange Zeit nur ideologisch positionell geführt worden. Wer sich nicht als Gegner oder Befürworter der Marxschen Lehre erklärte, hatte es schwer, in dieser Diskussion Gehör zu finden. Im letzten Viertel des vorigen Jahrhunderts hat jedoch sowohl in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489763
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The Limitations of Standard Economical Theory from the Perspective of Development, Sustainability and Rationality in Resource Allocation
Cãtãlin, Chiriac; Ana-Iolanda, Vodã; Radu, Constantinescu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 442-447
In this paper we wish to fix and underline the nature, causes and effects of the so called “theoretical limitations” of standard economics related to environment, without losing the focus on the impact – both present and potential – that this may have over the natural and social systems.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010926003
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Karl Marx: Herakles oder Sisyphos?Eine philosophische und ökonomische Untersuchung
Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2012
Die Diskussion um Karl Marx ist lange Zeit nur ideologisch positionell geführt worden. Wer sich nicht als Gegner oder Befürworter der Marxschen Lehre erklärte, hatte es schwer, in dieser Diskussion Gehör zu finden. Im letzten Viertel des vorigen Jahrhunderts hat jedoch sowohl in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266101
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF WIND POWER IN CORELATION WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISES
Florentina, Cucos Alina - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 62-68
Given the present day and age we live in, it is vital that the world considers the various natural resources available to us and how to best make use of them. Furthermore, it is imperative nowadays to look at the many environmentally friendly energy sources which will reduce the ill effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650794
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Agriculture and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
Karshenas, Massoud - Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African … - 2000
This paper is a comparative study of the role of agriculture in economic development in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Popular notions of economic duality and agricultural squeeze in sub-Saharan Africa are re-examined, and new explanations in terms of agrarian structures and resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665060
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ENERGY CRISIS IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA
Olimpiu, Pãrean Mihai - - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 271-276
If during the interwar period Romania has managed to move from an agrarian economy to an industrial-agrarian one, after the 2nd world war in Romania, as in other communist countries, has monitored the further development of the industry. It wanted to be a true industrial revolution.Over time one...
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