Mit dem nachfolgenden Bericht wird eine Studie des Instituts für Zukunftsstudien undTechnologiebewertung (IZT) im Auftrag des Berliner Gasversorgers GASAGdokumentiert, in der es um die Standortbestimmung und die zukunftsweisendeOrientierung des Unternehmens vor dem Hintergrund der...

Increasing the shares of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Distributed EnergyResources (DER) is one of the most important levers in many countries to cope withthe environmental, political, and economic challenges of future energy supply. Theunderlying question of this thesis is whether...

Future sustainable energy systems will need efficient, clean,low-cost, renewable energy sources, as well as market structuresthat motivate sustainable behaviors on the part of householdsand businesses. “Smart grid” components can help consumersmanage their consumption only if pricing...

„In der Wissenschaft ist es sehr selten, dass es zu einer bestimmten Frage einenso eindeutigen Konsens gibt." (Gore 2006: 260).Die Wissenschaftlerin Heike Walk (Walk 2008) hat die Partizipations- undGovernancedebatte auf die Klimapolitik bezogen. Die Autorin belegt die...

This report assesses the key drivers, environmental pressures and some impacts from the production and consumption of energy, taking into account the main objectives of the European policy on energy and environment including: security of supply, competitiveness, increased energy efficiency and...

This paper deals with a moral hazard problem resulting from a combined hidden action and hidden information situation.

This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...

Easter Island is the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth, devoid of heavy timber and most resources. Yet, the first European travellers to the island marvelled at large and delicately carved statues covering the whole of the island. For centuries, they wondered how those statues were built and...

The impact that the francoist autarkic economic policy had on the Spanish economy is assessed using the Domestic Resource Cost (DRC) as an indicator. This indicator compares the real opportunity cost of the primary factors used in the production of a certain good with its aggregated value at...

This paper explores the ways in which global resourceallocation affected the pattern of Japanese (and later East Asia’s)industrialisation, and how it eventually came to underpin the courseof Japanese imperialism and aggression in the 1930s.The Western impact on Asia during the second half of...