Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states areurged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived...

The laws of thermodynamics constrain transformation of materials and energy, and thus have implications for material and energy use in the economy, for environmental impact, and for policy. This paper provides an overview over the applications of concepts from thermodynamics in economics at the...

In der Wirtschaft wird noch häufig ein Mythos von Rationalität aufrecht erhalten, demgemäß sich Prozesse des Handelns und Entscheidens in Unternehmen ausschließlich an Kriterien der Zweckrationalität orientieren - und dies obwohl in der Organisationsforschung schon seit Jahrzehnten...