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especially the case for the financial services industry over the last couple of years. The insurance sector is no exception, even …
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model distinguishes and evaluates the three terms of an optimum tax: budget, environment and strategy. Their values depend …
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through analyzing systems of rules and levels of organization in the governance and management of environmental issues. Second …
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Environment is a broad and complex issue. It is likely be inaccessible to most laypersons, whereas, environmental … environment associated with a graphic and interactive model structured around six levels: Activities - polluting processes … the framework provided by the field of knowledge management (KM) and information system (IS). It allows analysing the …
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understanding of the agriculture-poverty-environment nexus – defined as the set of complex linkages between agriculture, poverty and … the environment – and of the economic incentives that drive the natural resource use of smallholder farmers in vulnerable …
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This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current trends based on national data and the method of projection are evaluated. The theory of urban transition is used as an alternative hypothesis for projections. Alternative...
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This article discusses the discount rate to be used in projects that aimed at improving the environment. The model is …
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a relatively recent phenomenon for companies and their stakeholders. However, we cannot ignore its historical roots. Many companies, especially in industry, developed social and environmental policies and practices a long time ago. These practical and...
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The longitudinal study of 13 investment decisions in the French aluminium industry, from 1890 to 1990, offers a new outlook for the risk evaluation in investment choice. Measurement tools form the main development in investment literature. However, they must be considered in a larger context...
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In this paper, we analyze whether the development of a growing economy could be impeded if a binding climate agreement were signed at the international level. Specifically, we study, in the case of a developing country, the initial momentum for development in the presence of binding emission...
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