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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
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Climate and trade policy : bottom-up approaches towards global agreement
Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Egenhofer, Christian (ed.) - 2007
Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420021
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Cost-benefit analysis and incentives in evaluation : the structural funds of the European Union
Florio, Massimo (contributor) - 2007
regulatory mechanisms, the EU will help to promote thousands of infrastructure projects in the next decade. CBA will be a key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420091
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International competitiveness and environmental policies
Barker, Terry (ed.); Köhler, Jonathan (ed.) - 1998
Government policies to reduce environmental pollution and global warming are often criticized as damaging to the economy, particularly by reducing international competitiveness. This book addresses the issue by examining many of the policies concerned, and their effects on competitiveness. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473835
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The firm, competitiveness, and environmental regulations : a study of the European food processing industries
Hitchens, D. M. W. N.; Birnie, Esmond; McGowan, Angela; … - 1998
Do environmental regulations harm international competitiveness? In answer to this question, this book focuses on the impact of regulatory policies on competitiveness and employment at the firm level. It investigates the trade-off between environmental regulations and competitiveness across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473838
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Climate change, transport, and environmental policy : empirical applications in a federal system
Proost, S. (ed.); Braden, John B. (ed.) - 1998
This important new book presents a state-of-the-art assessment of how economic models can be used by different levels of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used at federal and confederal levels of government. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473914
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Environmental policy with political and economic integration : the European Union and the United States
Braden, John B. (ed.); Folmer, Henk (ed.); Ulen, Thomas (ed.) - 1996
unitary government system. After examining the framework for environmental policy in the EU and US, the authors present papers … environmental security. In addition to its detailed discussion of environmental policy in the EU and the US, Environmental Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473935
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Environmental co-operation and institutional change : theories and policies for European agriculture
Hagedorn, Konrad (ed.) - 2002
. Centralised decision making at the EU level has characterised recent agricultural policy and the authors argue that centralised … relevant to policymakers within EU nations, as well as policymakers within the countries of Eastern and Central Europe who will … be amongst the first to be admitted to the EU in the next wave of expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474109
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Implementing European environmental policy : the impacts of directives in the member states
Glachant, Matthieu (ed.) - 2001
how EU directives are realised in the member states. The authors explore this issue through a comparative evaluation of … the implementation of three pieces of EU environmental legislation in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474125
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Nature and agriculture in the European union : new perspectives on policies that shape the European countryside
Brouwer, Floor (contributor);  … - 2002
Nature and agriculture both shape the European countryside and one of the main challenges for the years to come will be to strengthen their interaction for the future development of rural areas. In this valuable and highly topical book, the authors demonstrate how economics and ecology can play...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851146