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Vereinten Nationen dienen dafür als theoriegeleiteter Analyserahmen. Deutschland erreicht derzeit einen Anteil von rund 16 … Deutschland beleuchtet. Das ist für die Bedeutung dieser Gebiete, die dem Paradigma der nachhaltigen Entwicklung explizit … Development Goals will serve as the theoretical framework of this analysis. Germany currently accounts a share of 16 % of the …
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Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
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Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms for sustainable development introduced by the author. This article shows that the two axioms are equivalent to awareness of physical limits in the long run future. We prove that two optimization problems are equivalent :...
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Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms introduced in the articles by Chichilnisky of the years 1996 and 1997. These articles provide a characterization of the decision criterion that satisfies the axioms and shows that the two axioms are equivalent to physical...
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Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
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Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
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We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...
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Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the economy of small islands. The sustainable use and a rational policy of conservation of these resources are prerequisites to enable their full exploitation. However, island...
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This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...
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