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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with 169 specific targets could be a step forward in achieving efficient governance and policies for global sustainable development. An essential element will be the global indicator...
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We survey the emerging research area of sustainability economics through a quantitative full-text analysis of peer … sustainability economics for a keyword-based identification strategy: a combined focus on (a) the human-nature relationship, (b) the … long-term uncertain future, (c) normative orientation towards sustainability, and (d) economic analysis. Our analysis of a …
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We explore how the intertemporal distribution of well-being affects the social cost of carbon. In contrast to the literature that studies parameters of a particular social welfare function, such as the discount rate, we shift the focus and directly assume a parametric form for the intertemporal...
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We study how human preferences affect the resilience of economies that depend on more than one type of natural resources. In particular, we analyze whether the degree of substitutability of natural resources in consumer needs may give rise to multiple steady states and path dependence even when...
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Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks … therefore define strong sustainability under uncertainty in an operational manner, we propose to use the concept of viability … of viability as special cases. It provides an operational criterion of strong sustainability under conditions of …
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We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and … operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands … sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers, but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We …
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We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and … operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands … sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers, but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We …
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While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of sustainability for decades, it is just … recently that the term “sustainability economics” was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics … community. Yet, the contributions that use the term “sustainability economics” do not refer to any explicit definition of the …
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We propose a formal description of individual preferences that captures a subsistence requirement in consumption in an otherwise standard constant-elasticity-ofsubstitution (CES) utility specification. We study how substitutability between the subsistence good and another good depends on the...
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Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks … therefore define strong sustainability under uncertainty in an operational manner, we propose to use the concept of viability …
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