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...

Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...

This paper is about excessive overuse of resources and about serious environmental impacts, and the need for a global ecological turnaround. Ideas about a social contract for sustainability are being discussed, and examples given of resource decoupling and impact decoupling. Global environmental...