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The evolution of environmental thinking in economics
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper discusses the development of environmental economics from the Industrial Revolution in Europe to today. Specifically, it comments on the general similarities and differences between the representatives of the schools of economic thought concerning the environment. Among others, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404620
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Modelling the Costs of Climate Change and its Costs of Mitigation: A Scientific Approach
Douglas, Niall Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A thorough review is made of Climate Change Science, going into much greater detail than is typical of papers in Economics and specifically emphasising the hard thermodynamic limits of biological and physical processes. This theme is then continued in a historical review of theory relevant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620150
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Environment and Growth
Horii, Ryo; Ikefuji, Masako - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world's economic growth, particularly when the emission of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112947
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Achieving sustainable development: the Integrative Improvement Institutes Project
Douglas, Graham - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The challenges we face in our economies and societies in our divided unsustainable world are perhaps greater than at …, governed and acted as though our world is comprised of parts that can be separately exploited by humans and managed by us from … one stable state to another. We have forgotten we are just one species in a complex natural world. We have tended to act …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622133
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Environmentally Unfriendly Consumption Behaviour: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence from Private Motorists in Mexico City
González, Alva; Ángel, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578221
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Developing Corporate Strategic Framework to Enhance Sustainability through CSR
Sapovadia, Vrajlal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
CSR activities as applicable under the new company law in India may be used as sustainability strategy by the business … critical stakeholders. This strategic framework propose sustainability model over triple bottom line by addressing holistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251889
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Equity Criteria as Instrument to Ensure Sustainability of Pareto or Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency: A Correlation Hidden by Sources of Confounding as Key for Sorting Out the Global Econom...
Benazzo, Piero - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540106
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Sustainable use of renewable resources, Chapter 2.1
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Beltratti, Andrea; Heal, Geoffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
We consider here optimal use patterns for renewable resources and address the problem of optimal use of renewable resources under a variety of assumptions both about the nature of the economy in which these resources are embedded and about the objective of that economy. Although we focus here on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621841
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Development and social security system sustainability
Burz, Răzvan-Dorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
sustainability of the policies pursued by states. In doing so, we start from clarifying and summarizing the main ideas on the … system sustainability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257786
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Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada
Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
sustainability. In this respect, analysis of indicators related to the extraction of natural resources seems to be appropriate for a … resource-based economy. For resource-based economy such as Canada is the speed with which natural resources are extracted … demise of sustainability. Indicators that deal with the speed with which resources such as non-renewable energy, minerals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621515