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Implementation of ecologically sustainable development by Commonwealth departments and agencies
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 24 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) by Commonwealth departments and agencies to the Commission for inquiry and report within nine months of receipt of the reference.
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The Role of Auctions in Allocating Public Resources
Chan, Chris; Laplagne, Patrick; Appels, David - EconWPA - 2003
This paper provides an economic framework within which to consider the effectiveness and limitations of auction markets. The paper looks at the use of auctions as a policy instrument and the effects of auction design on consumer interests, the efficient allocation of resources, and industry...
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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 … Environmental Shareholder Value auf und zeigt, wie betriebliches Umweltmanagement positiv auf die Werttreiber des Shareholder Value … betriebliche Umweltmanagement sicherstellen muss, dass Unternehmen auf zukünftige „ökologische“ Herausforderungen reagieren können …
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Environmental Shareholder Value Matrix. Konzeption, Anwendung und Berechnung
Figge, Frank; Hahn, Tobias - EconWPA - 2004
Der Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltmanagement und Shareholder Value ist in den letzten Jahren Thema einer Vielzahl von … Publikationen gewesen. Dass gutes Umweltmanagement grundsätzlich auch Shareholder Value schaffen kann, ist heute weitgehend …. Hierdurch wird deutlich, ob und wie das Umweltmanagement Shareholder Value schafft. Die Studie zeigt außerdem, wie der Beitrag …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062488
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Environmental management: analytical approximate solutions to the problem of detecting optimal random audit schemes
Ferretti, Paola - EconWPA - 2004
In the contest of environmental management, the problem of minimizing the expected cost due to random checking processes and a possible failure is here addressed. Non-homogeneous Poisson checking processes with continuous non-decreasing intensity are considered, leading to the explicit detection...
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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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"Trade Liberalization and Pollution Intensive Industries in Developing Countries: A Partial Equilibrium Approach."
Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
Economic theory suggests that liberalization of trade between countries with differing levels of environmental protection could lead pollution- intensive industry to concentrate in the nations where regulations are lax. This effect, often referred to as the “pollution haven” hypothesis, is...
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Inconstitucionalidad por inconmesurabilidad de modelos económicos: El caso de las tasas retributivas por contaminación
Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004
The author studies the incommensurability of economic models as a type, little explored of unconstitutionality, called the unconstitutionality for incommensurability of economic models. The author statutes that many of Colombian rules relapse in this type of methodological error and due to the...
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"Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?"
Ackerman, Frank; Mirza, Sumreen - EconWPA - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125982
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Environmental Pressure Group Strength and Air Pollution: An Empirical Analysis
Binder, Seth; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2003
There is an established theoretical and empirical case-study literature arguing that environmental pressure groups have a real impact on pollution levels. Our original contribution to this literature is to provide the first systematic quantitative test of the strength of environmental...
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