is at least partly due to inadequate management. We characterize cattle farms through descriptive statistics and cluster … characterization of this system in respect to risk, management and sustainability. …

sustainability. To gather this information for an important ecological-economic system, we conducted a survey of commercial cattle …

While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of sustainability for decades, it is just … recently that the term sustainability economics was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics … community. Yet, the contributions that use the term sustainability economics do not refer to any explicit definition of the term …

the availability of rain-index insurance affects the sustainability of rangeland management. We show that a rain …-being while not impairing the sustainability of rangeland management. …

We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on … sustainability and risk management within this context, identify their determinants and analyse relevant interactions. Our results … interest groups or governmental support, instead, do not impact on the sustainability of the farm. Risk management itself is …

-efficiency across generations and sustainability, i.e. non-decreasing utility over time. Our model includes two salient characteristics … of sustainability problems and policy: (i) temporal irreversibility, i.e. the inability to revise one's past actions; (ii … initially unforeseen sustainability problems become apparent and policy is enacted after irreversible actions were taken, policy …

We develop and formalize a utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability which is inspired by Singer's (1972 … welfare maximization, and Brundtland-sustainability. Using a two-generationsresource-model, we find the following …. Sustainability and responsibility for sustainability are equivalent if and only if sustainability is feasible. If it is not, there …

We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and … operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands … sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers, but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We …

We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on … sustainability and risk management within this context, identify their determinants and analyse relevant interactions. Our results … interest groups or governmental support, instead, do not impact on the sustainability of the farm. Risk management itself is …

Two important policy goals in intergenerational problems are Pareto-efficiency and sustainability, i …-off. Our analysis highlights two salient characteristics of sustainability problems and policy: (i) temporal irreversibility, i …-environment systems (“unknown unknowns”). If initially unknown sustainability problems become apparent and policy is enacted after …