Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,286
Cover Image
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in the United States
OBrien, Paul - 2001
agriculture and road transport, sectors with an important influence on the environment, as well as to the use of cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444573
Cover Image
Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture
Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010
This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid … development, irrigation, research, extension, and higher education. However, except for the World Bank's Operations Evaluation … results. Aid to agriculture from nearly all donors fell precipitously beginning in the mid-1980s despite clear evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024056
Cover Image
Ecological-economic trade-offs of Diversified Farming Systems : a review
Rosa-Schleich, Julia; Loos, Jacqueline; Mußhoff, Oliver; … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 160 (2019), pp. 251-263
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169489
Cover Image
Financial profitability of diversified farming systems : a global meta-analysis
Sénchez, Andrea C.; Kamau, Hannah N.; Grazioli, Francesca - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 201 (2022), pp. 1-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503812
Cover Image
Sustaining our natural resources in the face of increasing societal demands on agriculture : directions for future research
Khanna, Madhu; Swinton, Scott M.; Messer, Kent D. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 40 (2018) 1, pp. 38-59
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010668
Cover Image
An analysis of some paradoxes in alternative agriculture and a vision of sustainability for future food systems
Onwueme, Inno; Borsari, Bruno; Filho, Walter Leal - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 7 (2008) 3, pp. 199-210
public. Education and research in sustainable agriculture are suggested as possible tools via which solutions to the …The paper offers an analysis of some of the prevailing practices in sustainable agriculture and points out some of the … paradoxes that need to be addressed and resolved in order to enhance acceptability of sustainable agriculture by the general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564229
Cover Image
Energieeffizienz muss auf die politische Agenda : Energiewende erfordert Effizienzmaßnahmen
Dürr, Heinz; Bauernhansl, Thomas - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 82 (2013) 3, pp. 183-198
Das Thema Energieeffizienz findet in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft bisher nur unzureichend Beachtung. Obwohl die Bundesregierung in ihrem Energiekonzept eine Entkopplung von Wachstum und Energieverbrauch vorsieht und einzelne Maßnahmen ergreift, werden die Energieeffizienzgewinne der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289590
Cover Image
Reforms for a cleaner, healthier environment in China
Hill, Sam - 2013
China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels but others, including greenhouse gas emissions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767753
Cover Image
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth : Experience in OECD Countries
OBrien, Paul - 2001
Clean air, clean water, fewer toxic emissions and less household waste are among the key environmental policy objectives that most OECD governments have been pursuing over the past three decades. This effort to take more account of the environmental costs of economic growth has been pursued in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444157
Cover Image
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Sweden
Roseveare, Deborah - 2001
This paper analyses Sweden’s policies for addressing a range of key environmental challenges. Although Sweden has a deliberately comprehensive approach to establishing its environmental objectives and policies, some issues have received particular attention. These include acidification and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444543