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environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world’s economic growth, particularly when the emission of …
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explores whether the implementation of various climate policy scenarios would help enhancing sustainability or rather whether … comprehensive indicator, the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), which aggregates several economic, social, and environmental … assessment of sustainability under different future climate policy scenarios. We find that the environmental component of …
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situation which threatens the sustainability of community forests including sacred groves, religion has been used to justify … such actions. This paper explores changes in tumi and the sustainability of sacred groves in the forest …
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A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called "double externalities", because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...
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Exhaustion of a natural resource stock may be a rational choice for an individual and/or a community, even if a sustainable use for the resource is feasible and the resource users are farsighted and well informed on the ecosystem. We identify conditions under which it is optimal not to sustain...
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This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
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This study focuses on the dynamic evolution of a small open economy specialized in tourism based on natural resources when tourist services are supplied to foreign tourists who are crowding-averse and give positive value to the environmental quality. We analyse the steady-state properties and...
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Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which …
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We assume that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs but also as a means of community/social involvement that provides socio-psychological (non-pecuniary) benefits. We show that the latter incentive can encourage full employment harvesting resources...
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limited, which seems to be crucial for today’s sustainability debate. …
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