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Invention and transfer of climate change-mitigation technologies: A global analysis
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Hascic, Ivan - HAL - 2011
This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792117
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I.C.T. and Environment : Bad Assumptions and Recent Hypotheses
Rodhain, Florence; Fallery, Bernard - HAL - 2011
The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information … ICT on the environment: paper, transportation, consumption, waste... The aim of the second part is to discuss the rather … positive role played by ICT with regard to knowledge of the environment: simulation, traceability, information... Research on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025750
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BASIC effect on global climate governance. Power changes and regime shifts
Berthaud, Pierre; Voituriez, Tancrède - HAL - 2013
In this paper we address the issue of the indeterminacy of climate change negotiations and examine the role played by the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of international political economy (IPE), we show that changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820964
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Addressing the climate change sustainable development nexus: the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships
Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - HAL - 2012
While calls are being made to deal with the linkages between climate change and sustainable development to arrive at an integrated policy, concrete steps in this direction have been very limited so far. One of the possible instruments through which both issues may be approached simultaneously is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635203
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Paisaje Del Desarrollo. La ecología de las tecnologías andinas
Alexander, Herrera; Alì, Maurizio - HAL - 2009
The abandonment of indigenous and traditional ways of relating to the landscape and making use of the environment are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891259
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Models-as-Usual for Unusual Risks? On the Value of Catastrophic Climate Change
Bommier, Antoine; Lanz, Bruno; Zuber, Stéphane - HAL - 2014
We study the role of alternative intertemporal preference representations in a model of economic growth, stock pollutant and endogenous risk of catastrophic collapse. We contrast the traditional "discounted utility" model, which assumes risk neutrality with respect to intertemporal utility, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025953
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Lean production: the link between supply chain and sustainable development in an international environment
Ravet, Denise - HAL - 2011
environment. Lean has long been kinked to improve operational performance and environmental performance. The concern is to analyze … of synergy and to strenghten their operational expertise in an international environment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547609
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Assessing the compliance of a product with an eco-label: from standards to constraints
Ngouna, Raymond Houé; Grabot, Bernard - HAL - 2009
advantage by obtaining eco-labels which certify the low impact of a product on the environment. Getting such label requires to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754484
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The Environmental Violence of Volatility
Bouleau, Nicolas - HAL - 2013
Since the Brundtland report in 1987, at the start of the series of United Nations Conferences on the Environment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739123
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Comparative study regarding the evolution of the foreign direct investments in central and eastern Europe region's countries.
Gavrila-Paven, Ionela - HAL - 2007
In this paper, we question whether there is a catch-up effect or announcement effecting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the European Union (EU) to the ten EU accession countries. We study FDI outflows for Romania, a small economy with few historical ties to Eastern Europe, and compare FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780804