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correlated with environmental impacts, and barriers to fast decoupling are large and numerous. On the other hand, low or negative … compatible with full employment, the decoupling of environmental impacts from economic output has to be accompanied by a …
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We systematize 64 primary studies published in 2000–2013 on the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters by providing OLS and generalized ordered probit meta-analyses for 1858 and 1991 regressions, respectively. We investigate how the reported results in the primary studies are influenced by...
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Planetary boundaries (PBs) and global catastrophic risk (GCR) have emerged in recent years as important paradigms for understanding and addressing global threats to humanity and the environment. This article compares the PBs and GCR paradigms and integrates them into a unified PBs-GCR conceptual...
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In this paper, I use the resilience framework to interpret the project of transforming the German energy system into a … first sketch how technological, political and economic developments reduced the resilience of the conventional fossil … the shift to the RES-regime. Third, I highlight the challenges involved with increasing the resilience of the RES …
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disturbance. We propose that resilience thinking offers a framework that could be helpful in the governance of rural changes. This … the resilience of rural areas. Nine criteria were developed including thirteen specifications. In order to evaluate the … resilience of a European rural development policy (i.e. the spending of extra funds generated through compulsory modulation under …
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Experts working on behalf of international development organisations need better tools to assist land managers in developing countries maintain their livelihoods, as climate change puts pressure on the ecosystem services that they depend upon. However, current understanding of livelihood...
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Based on recent research on erosion of ecosystem services, planetary boundaries and predicted pace of urbanization, it is now apparent that humans need to reconnect to the biosphere and that cities in this context, properly managed, could provide great opportunities and arenas for social...
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