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International Economics of Resource Efficiency : Eco-Innovation Policies for a Green Economy
Bleischwitz, Raimund (contributor);  … - 2011
Introduction -- I Sustainability Economics and Resources -- II International Analysis -- III Rebound Effects in Economics -- IV Modelling the Use of Resources in Economies -- V Outlook on Sustainable Resource Management
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015373
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Rechtsgrundlagen der Rohstoffpolitik : Ausgewählte Länder Europas
Tiess, Günter - 2009
Die jüngsten Entwicklungen auf den Weltmärkten haben erneut die internationale Bedeutung von mineralischen Rohstoffen aufgezeigt. Die Basis - das rechtliche Rahmenwerk - bildet für Förderung und Versorgung die entscheidende Grundlage. Effiziente Rechtsvorschriften sowie deren Implementierung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015086
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Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries
Kalyuzhnova, Yelena - 2016
This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia and the UK. The authors situate LC policy within a framework of sustainability in the form of industrial diversification and innovation-led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398202
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Governance for Structural Transformation in Africa
Elhiraika, Adam B. (ed.); Ibrahim, Gamal (ed.);  … - 2019
This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the … different approaches to institutions and trade and industrial policies and structural transformation in Africa. The book makes … recommendations for a new approach to governance in Africa that can deliver the structural transformation that the continent needs for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397078
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Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment : How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity
Panford, Kwamina - 2017
in those countries can provide valuable lessons for new oil producers in Africa and elsewhere. Relying on a broad range …1.Introduction -- 2.The Paradox of Africa’s Natural Resource Wealth -- 3.Can Natural Resource-Related Social and … Economic Maladies Be Avoided in Africa? -- 4.Ghana’s Petroleum: Will the Myth of Ghanaian Exceptionalism in Africa be Sustained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397513
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Intergenerational Pathways to a Sustainable Society
Kaplan, Matthew - 2017
This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396313
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Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources
Leal Filho, Walter - 2012
The book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It contains examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, and addresses the need to promote sustainable water use across the world
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015539
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Handbook for a Sustainable Economy
Bermejo, Roberto - 2014
Part I Critical review of the orthodox economy -- 1 paradigms -- 2 the commodification of nature and its consequences -- 3 Foundations and instruments of environmental economics -- 4 Free market and sustainability -- 5 Sustainable development in the Brundtland report and its distortion -- Part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014020862
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Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability
Rømer, John (ed.); Suzumura, Kotaro (ed.) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053757
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Cost-Benefit Studies of Natural Resource Management in Southeast Asia
James, David - 2015
This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402048