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The circular city and the building sector
Franz, Gianfranco - 2020
The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...
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Adoption of eco and circular economy-innovation in Italy : exploring different firm profiles
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, Francesco; Pareglio, … - 2022
protection, eco-innovation) of the ecological/sustainability transition. If the one-size-fits-all has not been proved a viable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990145
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Innovation, circular economy practices and organisational settings : empirical evidence from Italy
Antonioli, Davide; Ghisetti, Claudia; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2022
This paper builds on the available knowledge on what drives firms' production choices towards circular economy practices to shed new light on a so far quite neglected dimension: the role of organizational settings. Being the transition to a more circular economy systemic in nature, it draws not...
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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an …, of the mechanism underlining China’s economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment … incorporated into China’s growth mechanism, then at some tipping point in time when marginal welfare gain of R&D for knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451689
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Which innovations for circular business models? : a product life-cycle approach
Chioatto, Elisa; Zecca, Emy; D'Amato, Alessio - 2020
The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389895
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A comparison between sustainability frameworks : an integrated reading through ESG criteria for business strategies and enterprise risk management
Casciotti, Paola - 2023
Reporting to Sustainability Reporting, impose to pay attention to new criteria and contents, also in order to distinguish … Sustainability, like the institutional ones (MDG, SDG, BES) and one of the most widespread standard of non financial reporting … SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391219
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The environment and directed technical change
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - 2010
This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed...
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Human capital, innovation, and climate policy : an integrated assessment
Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - 2012
This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535543
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The environment and directed technical change : Comment
Hourcade, Jean-Charles; Pottier, Antonin; Espagne, Etienne - 2011
This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...
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Interactions between climate and trade policies : a survey
Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004
consider the major issues in multilateral economic agreements in trade and finance that affect environmental sustainability …
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