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Policy Suggestions for Emissions Trading in the U.S.A.
Wallshein, Nathaniel - 2010
This honors thesis will examine current and theoretical "cap and trade" emissions trading schemes in an attempt to make recommendations on how to improve this regulated commodity market. The various control mechanisms available to regulators will be discussed: including allocation methodology,...
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Key recommendations for waste management policy decision-makers: a case study of future opportunities for non-municipal waste facilities in Northamptonshire, UK
Bates, M.; Phillips, P.; Mbeng, L.; Montasser, W.; … - 2008
This research identifies the barriers (e.g. planning) and drivers for the development of new non-municipal wastes management facilities in Northamptonshire, an English County in the East Midlands of England. The aim of the research was to give guidance to policy makers and planners at all levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430280
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Zur dynamischen Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente
Unold, Wolfram - 2000
Im Mittelpunkt der vorgestellten Arbeit steht die dynamische Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Die voliegende Arbeit erstellt einen differenzierten Vergleich umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Hierzu wird die Anreizwirkung von Steuern, Subventionen, Zertifikaten und einheitlichen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476197
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The Role of Management in the Movement Towards Sustainability : Perceived Responsibilities, Challenges, and Opportunities
Brueckner, Martin - 1998
The aim of this thesis was to explore the role of management in the movement towards ecologically sustainable development (ESD), investigating perceived responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities facing business management today. The point of departure for this study was the acknowledgement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440779
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Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy
Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin P. - 2000
Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world's environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an "efficient" allocation of society's resources. As a result, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446886
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Reviewing the Tragedy of the Commons: Environmental Management Systems and Informal Communication Networks
Espinosa, Angela; Knowles, Kathryn - 2008
still more concerned with ensuring continual growth in productivity than improved sustainability. Our hypothesis is that … for more effective change towards sustainability. In this paper, we explain the reasons why meta-systemic principles of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468349
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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance
Watt, Helen Payne - 2000
"Many of what we consider to be valuable natural assets existed for millennia without our ever being aware of their usefulness or value. For example, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb pollution has only become useful to us in recent decades as the limits of that environmental service have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468379
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A consumer perspective of green event performance
von der Heidt, Tania; Firmin, Rose - 2009
This paper looks at the under-researched area of assessing organisational green performance and its drivers from the consumer’s point of view. Drawing on the green literature, a model is advanced in which certain environmental attitudes held by consumers drive or restrain the performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475187
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Essays on sustainable operations
Agrawal, Vishal - 2010
product recovery and remanufacturing strategy for a firm that can offer trade-in rebates to achieve price discrimination. We … also consider the effect of potential entry of third-party remanufacturers on the firm's recovery and remanufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476066
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Green, Greener, BPM?
Recker, Jan C. - 2011
business shirts or their logo 2.0.; I am referring to the eco-aware movement that has pushed sustainability into the top ten … aware and sustainable. But the boom goes beyond organizational reality. Even in academia, sustainability has become a … thoughts around how BPM can contribute to the sustainability fashion parade and let me introduce you to some of the works that …
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