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A Mountain Biker cannot start a journey in sixth gear: An Assessment of the U.N. Global Compact’s Use of Soft Law as a Global Governance Structure for Corporate Social Responsibili...
Ghafele, Roya; Mercer, Angus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The practical impossibility of employing hard law at an international level has meant that softer codes of conduct have stepped in to fill the void. The Global Compact is the most ambitious of these codes, created with a desire to engage business in the project of international development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260197
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Innovation, diffusion and catching up in the fifth long wave
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Does the new technological paradigm based on information and communication technologies (ICTs) create new windows of opportunity or further obstacles for catching up countries? The paper discusses this question by taking neo-Schumpeterian long wave theory as the basic framework of analysis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764691
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Uncertain future preferences and conservation
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Beltratti, Andrea; Heal, Geoffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
number of environmental cases, for example biodiversity, current climate conditions, or complex ecological systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789564
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Sustainable development and North-South trade
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
The present acceleration of environmental destruction can be linked to the economic trading strategies that came into vogue after World War II. The theory of comparative advantages of trade, which recommends that developing countries emphasize resource exports and exports of labor-intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619441
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Re-thinking on the role of business in biodiversity conservation
Barna, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Today we face the challenge of building biodiversity business. There is a need to develop new business models and … market mechanisms for biodiversity conservation, while also raising awareness and persuading the public and policy …-makers that biodiversity can be conserved on a commercial basis. In this context the present paper is analyzing the arise of a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619625
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Rights on what is left
Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Allocating property rights on an open access resource which has been freely exploited in the past is often very problematic. Involved agents typically rely on one of two competing principles to determine future allocation. The first priority principle, "first in time, first in rights" favors the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506905
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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 series of pointed, uncomfortable truths that our culture & society prefers to overlook. Two types of “costs of climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620150
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Markets with tradable CO2 emission quotas: principles and practice
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
This paper reviews a range of issues relating to tradable carbon dioxide quotas. It considers the economic principles on which they are based, compares them with alternative carbon abatement policies, and reviews many aspects of how tradable quotas would be implemented in practice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622074
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Rights on what is left
Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Allocating property rights on an open access resource which has been freely exploited in the past is often very problematic. Involved agents typically rely on one of two competing principles to determine future allocation. The first priority principle, "first in time, first in rights" favors the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110416
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Islam and Environmental Economics
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economic choices influenced by animalistic instincts in an ethically neutral framework have not only resulted in huge disparity in distribution of income, wealth and standard of living, but, as we now realize, it has also resulted in unprecedented loss to ecology and environment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113621