In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...

Government accepts responsibility for stimulating and supporting research and development for the welfare of the entire community. Research is therefore a matter of serious concern which should be approached with the greatest degree of responsibility by those trained and qualified to engage in...

Völklingen muss sich neue Ziele setzen, und zwar solche, die Wettbewerbsvorteile bringen. Dies gilt sowohl für den gewerblichen wie privaten Bereich. Dazu sollte zunächst eine Trendanalyse erfolgen.

Der Zweite Statusbericht zum Stadtumbau Ost stellt die Ergebnisse einer Befragung der am Stadtumbau Ost beteiligten Kommunen vor und zieht nach den ersten fünf Jahren Programmlaufzeit Bilanz über den derzeit erreichten Stand der Programmumsetzung. So sind erste positive Effekte des Stadtumbaus...

Im ersten Statusbericht

The ubiquitous drive towards a more sustainable future has resulted in major changes in the planning anddesign of urban environments. Government strategies on sustainable development, published in 1999and 2005, are thought to be driving the development of new legislations that are aimed at...

Calculating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate change mitigation projects requires construction of a baseline that sets emissions levels that would have occurred without the project. This paper describes a standardized multiproject methodology for setting baselines, represented by...

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated with the individual’s time preference, no prior study has been done to empirically support or refute such predictions. By collecting detailed measures of health, time...