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Targeting Lead in Solid Waste
Sigman, Hilary - 2003
This paper explores policy options for reducing lead in municipal solid waste. It focuses on policies that rely on economic incentives, such as taxes, deposit-refunds, and recycled content standards. The paper addresses the relative cost effectiveness of these approaches and also considers the...
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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298128
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Towards a Stock-Flow Consistent Ecological Macroeconomics
Jackson, Tim; Victor, Peter; Naqvi, Asjad - 2016
Modern western economies (in the Eurozone and elsewhere) face a number of challenges over the coming decades. Achieving full employment, meeting climate change and other key environmental targets, and reducing inequality rank amongst the highest of these. The conventional route to achieving...
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Defining research gaps concerning the implementation of socio-ecological transition
Weiss, Teresa - 2016
This paper summarizes future research questions for each driver of change based on the outcomes of the WWWforEurope project and the derived policy recommendations. Firstly, a broad research question is suggested for each driver indicating the main focus of interest. In a second step, several...
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Umweltschutz: hohes Beschäftigungspotenzial in Deutschland
Blazejczak, Jürgen; Edler, Dietmar - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 10, pp. 2-9
Unternehmen und Staat setzen erhebliche Ressourcen für den Umweltschutz ein. Dies spiegelt sich in der Entwicklung der … Zahl der Beschäftigten, die direkt und indirekt für den Umweltschutz tätig sind. Im Jahr 2006 arbeiteten mit knapp 1 …,8 Millionen Personen rund 4,5 Prozent aller Erwerbstätigen für den Umweltschutz. 2002 waren es noch knapp 1,5 Millionen. Ein …
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Die Zahl der Arbeitsplätze im Umweltschutz wird weiter steigen: Sieben Fragen an Dietmar Edler
Edler, Dietmar; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 10, pp. 3
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The influence of information-based initiatives and negotiated environmental agreements on technological change
Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1997
Polluting firms must have the willingness, opportunity, and capacity or capability to undertake technological changes to improve their environmental performance. These changes could involve the adoption (diffusion) of already-proven technologies, or require incremental to radical innovation....
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Voluntary agreements in environmental policy: Negotiating emission reductions
Schmelzer, Dirk - 1997
Voluntary agreements are an important environmental policy instrument. In the paper some examples are discussed and the structure and mechanisms of voluntary agreements are analyzed using a strategic game approach. In the simple strategic game with only one abatement technology, there is a...
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Hope for the environment: Free enterprise and other economic regimes
Baumol, William Jack - 1998
This paper is the keynote speech delivered by Professor William Baumol at the First World Congress of Environmental Economists that was held in Venice on June 25-27, 1998. It analyses the situation of the environment under different economic regimes: the feudal society, Marxism and capitalism....
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Towards the Green Environment.Comparison of Environmental Impacts of Urban Public Transport and Automobiles
Gommers, Michael - 1999
This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise nuisance, waste materials and use of space). For this purpose two models have been developed FACTS-Urban (Forecasting air pollution by car traffic simulation) and MILOV...
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