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Capitalizing on co-benefits and synergies to promote the blue economy in Asia and the Pacific
Kobayashi, Masanori; Watanabe, Atsushi; Furukawa, Keita; … - 2021
sustainable use of marine and coastal resources. An approach to promote co-benefits and synergies is useful for a wide range of … stakeholders. To articulate such co-benefits and synergies, the authors chose cases for analysis based on the co-benefits and … synergies in the promotion of a sustainable blue economy. They performed a socio-ecological system analysis to examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807476
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Blue ocean tourism in Asia and the Pacific: trends and directions before the coronavirus crisis
Connell, John - 2020
Tourism has played only a marginal part in the blue economy of the region of Asia and the Pacific. Most Asian and the Pacific islands and island states have sought some form of tourism development. Promoting tourism and finding markets has usually come from hotels, travel agents, and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395622
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Drivers of blue economy in Asia and Pacific Island countries : an empirical investigation of tourism and fisheries sectors
Bhattacharya, Poulomi; Dash, Aruna Kumar - 2020
This study examines the determinants of blue economy activities, namely tourism and fisheries, in 21 Asia and Pacific island countries during the period 1996 to 2016. Using a panel data model, it was found that the size of the blue economy positively depends on the gross fixed capital formation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253852
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Innovation complementarity and environmental productivity effects : reality or delusion? ; evidence from the EU
Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2013
Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193805
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Public-Private Partnerships and Sustainable Agricultural Development
Ferroni, Marco; Castle, Paul - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 1064-1073
Agriculture in Africa is not sustainable because average yields have been stagnating for decades due to underinvestment, especially in the development of agricultural markets, crop improvement and the sustainable management of agricultural systems. Low public sector funding for agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203570
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Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU
Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2013
Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328690
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Foundations for an ecological macroeconomics : literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter A.; Kratena, Kurt; … - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426487
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Herbicide-tolerant Transgenic Soybean over 15 Years of Cultivation: Pesticide Use, Weed Resistance, and Some Economic Issues. The Case of the USA
Bonny, Sylvie - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 9, pp. 1302-1322
sustainability and innovation governance raised by genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283635
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Shaping territorial agri-food systems through social innovations : the example of Valposchiavo, Switzerland
Froning, Paul; Stotten, Rike - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 79 (2024) 1, pp. 33-46
sourced and environmentally sustainable products. To gain deeper insights into the interplay of social innovation and … intricacies of the development process, we applied the territorial social innovation framework, specifically tailored for … approach of 100% Valposchiavo constitutes a territorial social innovation. This innovation is evident in the formation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050065
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Out of the Rubble and Towards a Sustainable Future: The “Greening” of Greensburg, Kansas
White, Stacey Swearingen - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 7, pp. 2302-2319
article uses innovation theory to consider how and why the sustainability focus emerged in Greensburg and to explore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683034