The increasing use of digital networking in complex industrial processes opens up new potential for more sustainability. This paper delivers the fi rst empirical fi ndings on the relevance of digitalisation for improving material effi ciency in German industry based on a unique dataset including...

Although regional development banking is a recent institution in the field of international cooperation, the author asks the question whether in the light of current and possible events in the 1970s its fundamental policies are appropriate to those developments in particular, and to economic...

Sustainable development at both the national and the global level is increasingly acknowledged to be dependent upon the international trade system. The WTO Agreements and the continuing discussion in the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment are therefore examined here in the light of...