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Preserving natural capital in a world of uncertainty and scarce financial resources

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

Natural capital should be preserved because it exhibits features that distinguish it from all other kinds of capital. The notorious prevalence of risk, uncertainty and ignorance makes it difficult, however, to state which parts of it should be preserved. Some forms of natural capital are more...

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Like mixing oil and water?: the take up of sustainability in hard-to-reach places - an East Texas case study

Holman, Nancy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Following studies about the adoption of sustainability initiatives in both innovative and ordinary US cities, this … article offers a unique view of sustainability in hard-to-reach places where regulation and planning are viewed with suspicion …

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A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable amazon network

Gardner, Toby A.; Ferreira, J.; Barlow, J.; Lees, A. C.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian … Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers three advantages for addressing land-use sustainability problems: (i) the … in most urgent need of attention, and in guiding improvements in land-use sustainability in Amazonia and elsewhere in the …

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Climate change and sustainable welfare: an argument for the centrality of human needs

Gough, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

is critical for understanding sustainability. The capability approaches of Sen and Nussbaum are compared but argued to be …

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Smart growth: the future of the American metropolis?

Katz, Bruce - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In the past few years, widespread frustration with sprawling development patterns has precipitated an explosion in innovative thinking and action across the United States. This new thinking ¿ generally labeled as ¿smart growth¿ ¿ contends that the shape and quality of metropolitan growth in...

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The Clean Development Mechanism: too flexible to produce sustainable development benefits?

Watson, Charlene; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has a dual objective: to encourage low-cost emission reduction and to promote sustainable development in the host countries of CDM projects. The CDM has by and large delivered on the first objective but arguably not on the second. This...

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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is contro-versial, both due to the conditions through which it is justifed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Green chemistry and green engineering in China: drivers, policies and barriers to innovation

Matus, Kira J. M.; Xiao, Xin; Zimmerman, Julie B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

With the world’s largest population and consistently rapid rates of economic growth, China faces a choice of whether it will move towards a more sustainable development trajectory. This paper identifies the different factors driving innovation in the fields of green chemistry and green...

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Emergency purchasing situations: implications for consumer decision-making

Samson, Alain; Voyer, Benjamin G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This article introduces the Emergency Purchasing Situation (EPS) as a distinct buying context. EPSs stem from an unexpected event (unanticipated need or timing of a need), as well as high product importance, which are associated with a short time frame for consumer decision-making. Our...

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