Zusammenfassung Für die umweltorientierte Verflechtungsanalyse wird eine Verdichtung der in Input-Output- Tabellen enthaltenen Informationen gewünscht, wobei die quantitative Bedeutung der Verflechtungen weiter erkennbar sein soll. Dazu wird am Beispiel kumulierter Energieaufwendungen ein...

Much of the rural poor-who are growing in number-are concentrated in ecologically fragile and remote areas. The key ecological scarcity problem facing such poor households is a vicious cycle of declining livelihoods, increased ecological degradation and loss of resource commons, and declining...

"Ecosystem services" has become a catch-phrase for the complex connections between the natural environment and human well-being. This paper considers the impact of changes in the supply of ecosystem services, and programs to increase their supply, on near-term growth of gross domestic product....