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Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous …
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the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of …
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Technology transfer and innovation are considered major drivers of sustainable development; they place knowledge and … universities, and how they can interact with key actors and institutions involved in 'innovation ecosystems'. Considering various … approaches of innovation and institutional analysis design (IAD), it proposes an institutional model of innovation where …
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The point of departure of this work is the lack of coordination of European environmental internalizing policies. At the national level, while the water authority generally has to internalize the negative externalities of water extraction, the agricultural one aims at encouraging environmentally...
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Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...
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The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …
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The contents and scope of Sustainable Development, as a model for the development towards which the international community wants to move forward, is the object of multiple interpretations. That way both, diagnosis of sustainability and the design, execution and assessment of actions aimed to...
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innovation are incremental and create marginal organisational changes, in part icular, within local governments. However, some …
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The different forms of participation or communication within and between public agencies represent one of the five major features of policy implementation which explain why programs do not turn out the way they are expected to. This paper evaluates the advancements and the effect of the...
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The article aims at assessing the effectiveness of a role-play in addressing two concerns: clarifying the concept of sustainable development and teaching sustainable development issues. The effectiveness is gauged by surveying students to reveal how the game matches a set of "significant...
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