Environmental employment is an issue with high interest to the public and to policy makers. Yet, the debate is blurred by a great number of distinct definitions and hence estimates of environmental employment. Therefore it is essential to carefully document delimitations and methods used in any...

Industrial society is still on a course of conflict with the environment. Natural resources are being over-exploited and the natural ecosystems are over-loaded by non-digestable pollutants. Unchanged, industrial society gives no real chance to nature and provides no future for a sustainable...

High and persistent unemployment rates and increasing awareness of environmental degradation in many industrial countries have promoted the interest in the labour market effects of environmental policy. Environmental labour market analysis is fraught with many difficulties, however. Being...

In diesem Papier wird das Konzept der praventiven Umweltpolitik vorgestellt und im Hinblick auf die zu seiner Ausfüllung benötigten Informationen untersucht. Die Umweltpolitik ist trotz anderslautender Beteuerungen nach wie vor in hohem Maße reaktiv, auf Schadensbehebung, nicht auf...