The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...

Die Dissertation ???Qualitativer Bewusstseins- und Verhaltenswandel im Kontext einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung und ??kologischen ??konomik??? ist eine ungew??hnliche wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Arbeit, die mit Hilfe von inter- und transdisziplin??rer Forschungsmethodik weit ??ber das Gebiet der...

The intention of this paper is to draw attention to the conceptual and practical instruments presented in the Sufficiency Economy. The idea was first mooted by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. He observed that Thailand had a very large population with millions of poor people who face...

Discretionary monetary and fiscal policy decisions have meant that the Australian economy, like most others, has been prevented from generating enough jobs in the last 25 years to match the growth of the labour force. The same policy decisions have also not allowed the economy to generate enough...

We evaluate the effectiveness of non optimal and temporally inconsistent incentive policies for regulating the exploitation of a renewable common-pool resource. The corresponding game is an N-person discrete-time deterministic dynamic game of T periods fixed duration. Three policy instruments...

We assess different policies for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and promoting the innovation and diffusion of CO2-reducing power technologies: (1) emissions price, (2) tax on fossil power, (3) tradable emissions performance standard, (4) market share requirement for renewables, (5)...

Keizer, Lindenberg and Steg (2008) conduct six interesting field experiments and report that their results provide evidence of the broken windows theory. Such an analysis is highly relevant as the (broken windows) theory is both controversial and lacking empirical support. Keizer et al.’s key...

The aim of this study is to present the “stock and flow” model - based on the Georgescu-Roegen bio economic paradigm and on the ecological economics principles - in a regional key and to discuss the implications of such an approach on the local system governance in order to guarantee a long...

Diese Arbeit rezipiert den Begriff der „Industriellen Ökologie” (IÖ) von einer transdisziplinären Warte aus. Explizit geprägt und verwendet wird dieser Begriff seit gut einem Jahrzehnt vor allem im angloamerikanischen Sprachraum als „industrial ecology“ (IE). Dahinter verbergen sich zwei...

"In order to halt resource degradation of the high value sea snail ‘loco’ (Concholepas concholepas), the Chilean state in the late 1990s institutionalised commons – Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs), which since then have had varying results, especially in economic terms....