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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...

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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit

Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004

Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...

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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.

Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

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THE TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION: AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it...

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U-shaped Paths of Consumption and Physical Capital in Lucas-type Growth Models

Nili, Farhad - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers transitional dynamics of consumption and physical capital in Lucas-type growth models. We find that when the ratio of physical to human capital is sufficiently high, it is optimal for both consumption and physical capital to fall for a finite period and then rise along their...

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"Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."

Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world’s environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an “efficient” allocation of society’s resources. As a...

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Economic Analysis of Rural Land Administration Projects

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...

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IE WP 02/04 Technology and the environment: an evolutionary approach to sustainable technological change

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...

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Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria...

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DETERMINANTS OF FORMAL OR INFORMAL ACCESS TO FOREST RESOURCES AND MONETARY VALUE OF ACCESS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF FOREST RESERVE COMMUNITIES IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA.

Eric, Eboh; Chinedu, Ujah Oliver - EconWPA - 2005

One argument against forest reservation is that people want forest reserve resources and would not deliberately destroy it. In contrast, the basic assumption underlying forest reservation in Nigeria is that local communities cannot conserve and manage forests sustainably. How well this strategy...

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