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Transition to sustainability? Feasible scenarios towards a low-carbon economy

Bernardo, Giovanni; D'Alessandro, Simone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyses different policies that may promote the transition towards a low-carbon economy. We present a dynamic simulation model where three different strategies are identified: improvements in energy efficiency, the development of the renewable energy sector, and carbon capture and...

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Research Perspectives on Renewable Energy Cooperatives in Germany: Empirical Insights and Theoretical Lenses

Yildiz, Özgür; Rommel, Jens; Debor, Sarah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Transformation of energy systems is influencing economic policy agendas all over the world, particularly so in industrialized countries. In this process, Germany has taken a pioneering role. Technical innovations, institutional frameworks, and business models established there are of interest...

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Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Electricity from Cooperatives? Results from an Online Choice Experiment in Germany

Sagebiel, Julian; Müller, Jakob R.; Rommel, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

With liberalization in 1998, numerous firms have entered the German retail electricity market, including newly formed cooperatives. Based on Transaction Cost Economics, we develop a theoretical framework seeking to explain preferences for electricity supplied by cooperatives from a consumer...

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Labour productivity in coal mining sector in India: with special to major coal mining states

Santra, Swarup; Bagaria, Nidhi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Coal is one of the Primary sources of Energy accounting for about 67% of total energy consumption in India. The … production of Coal has increased from 35 million tons in 1951 to 409.3 million tons in 2004. At the same time, the Average Daily … Employment (ADE) has increased from 352 thousand in 1951 to 405 thousand in 2004. However, the journey of Coal sector was not …

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Energy Power, Digital Infrastructure and Elearning Platforms: Afrrican Experience.

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Information and communication technologies are one of the most pervasive technologies in the world, second only to 'human intelligence' or the human brain. Thus, understanding the factors that determine the diffusion of new technologies across african countries is important to understanding the...

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Domestic Reshufflings, Such as Transport and Coal, Do Not Explain the Modern World

McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Harberger Problem and the timing problem. Not even coal---the favorite of Wrigley, Pomeranz, Allen, and Harris---can survive the …

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Corporate Walkover in Progress: The Case of the Southern Company’s “Clean Coal” Plant in Mississippi

Klinedinst, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The project to create an experimental “clean coal” plant in Mississippi is funded by electric utility customers in the …

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Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse

Betz, Mike; Farren, Michael; Lobao, Linda; Partridge, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Coal mining has a long legacy of providing needed jobs in isolated communities but it is also associated with places …. Regulations, first on air, have altered the geography of coal mining, pushing it west from Appalachia. Likewise, technological …, the economic footprint of coal mining has greatly changed in an era when the industry appears to be on the decline. This …

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Sources of energy and the environment

Spash, Clive L.; Young, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Energy from fossil fuels have become dominant in the industrialised and industrialising economies of the world. However, fossil fuels are also recognised as heavily polluting and responsible for a range of modern environmental and health problems. Nuclear power is a similar conventional energy...

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The international mercury cartel, 1928-1949

López-Morell, Miguel A.; Segreto, Luciano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Mercury has been one of the most persistent cases in contemporary history of international market regulations and this …

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