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Financing National Protected Area Networks Internationally ; The Global Environment Facility as a Multilateral Mechanism of Transfer

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

Nationally implemented protected area measures for biodiversity conservation generate cross-border externalities. For …

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Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean

Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

2015. Even though ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the eight MDG goals, the ocean is not explicitly included …

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Internalizing Global Externalities from Biodiversity ; Protected Areas and Multilateral Mechanisms of Transfer

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...

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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Africa: An Overview

Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

environmental degradation add to an unprecedented combination of pressures that threaten existing efforts and solutions. This …

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The rich, the clean, and the kind - a comprehensive wealth index for cities applied to the case of Germany

Jonas, Dovern; Martin, Quaas; Rickels, Wilfried - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We develop a comprehensive wealth index for cities that measures their endowment with environmental, energy, social … good economic performance does not need to come at the cost of environmental degradation; (ii) clear regional differences …

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Avoiding Extinction: Equal Treatment of the Present and the Future

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms for sustainable development introduced by the author. This article shows that the two axioms are equivalent to awareness of physical limits in the long run future. We prove that two optimization problems are equivalent :...

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The Impact of Trade and Economic Growth on the Environment: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper explores the interrelations between economic growth, international trade and environmental degradation both … single link for all countries. Several environmental factors and one sustainability indicator are analyzed for the full … sample, regions and income groups. The results indicate that there is an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for most …

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The role of urban green space for human well-being

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Most people in Europe live in urban environments. For these people, urban green space is an important element of well-being, but it is often in short supply. We use self-reported information on life satisfaction and different individual green space measures to explore how urban green space...

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On the Environmental Effectiveness of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

guide future maritime policy in the EU and aims at achieving or maintaining a good environmental status (GES) of the … this paper, we investigate the applicability of environmental CBA in the marine context and identify and discuss problems … that may hamper the environmental effectiveness of the MSFD. For example, marine ecosystem services are much less tangible …

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Integrating biodiversity indices into a multi-species optimal control model

Bertram, Christine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. In addition, an increasing integration of the national economies into the global economy has affected these economic relations, too. In an effort to...

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