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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth
Costantini, Valeria; Monni, Salvatore - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
causal relationships between economic growth, human development and sustainability combining the RCH and EKC models and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385374
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230804
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Interactions between Climate and Trade Policies: A Survey
Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
consider the major issues in multilateral economic agreements in trade and finance that affect environmental sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423127
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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423168
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Trust as a Key Variable of Sustainable Development and Public Happiness: A Historical and Theoretical Example Regarding the Creation of Money
Genovese, Nicola; Spada, Maria Grazia La - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
This article purports to trace the origin of money on the basis of factors in interpersonal relationships, affecting a sustainable development and public happiness, namely trust, reciprocity and the concept of we-rationality. Both the historical approach and the one based on traditional economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747056
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Sustainable Development Policies in Europe
Caratti, Pietro; Cascio, Gabriella Lo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The objective of this paper is to investigate the actual situation in the shift towards the implementation of Sustainable Development Policies in Europe. The aim is to highlight the key role of the European Union in bringing about sustainable development within Europe and also on the wider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392556
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Transitional Dynamics Towards Sustainability: Reconsidering the EKC Hypothesis
Bella, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is one of the most debated economic issues. Despite its fascinating appeal for any policy maker, neither theoretical nor certain empirical evidence has been found to clean up all doubt. The aim of this paper is to present an economy where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570292
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A Modified Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sustainable Development Assessment Using Panel Data
Costantini, Valeria; Martini, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
wider concept of development rather than pure economic growth, including well-being aspects and sustainability of the … development process. Using a macroeconomic measure of sustainability such as the World Bank’s Genuine Saving and a measure of well … levels and natural resources consumption, verifying the sustainability of human development. A panel analysis for three years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570312
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Accounting for Different Uncertainties: Implications for Climate Investments?
Hector, Svenja - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904906
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Marginal External Costs of Peak and Non Peak Urban Transport in Belgium
Nocker, Leo De; Vergote, Stef; Vinckx, Luc; Wouters, Guido - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
This paper discusses intermediate results of an ongoing research project to estimate all external costs from all transport modes in Belgium. It gives estimates of the marginal external costs of air pollution from urban transport. The evaluation of the environmental impacts is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423053