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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2009
The author analyzes the optimal investment in environmental protection in a model of an infinite series of non-overlapping hyperbolically discounting agents. He shows that without a commitment mechanism society is eventually stuck in a situation where all agents prefer further investment in the...
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German geographical research on Japan
Flüchter, Winfried - 2000
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The use of trade measures for environmental purposes - globally and the Eu context
Vikhlyaev, Alexey - 2001
This paper assesses the scope for and implications of trade measures for environmental purposes in the WTO and the European Union. The assessment is illustrated by a number of cases that have tested the limits of legal provisions in the WTO and EU dealing with issues arising at the intersection...
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Environmental Governance in Hungary - Rural Development Policies and Social Learning during the Implementation of EU Agri-Environmental Policies - A Case Study
Nemes, Gusztáv - 2010
The Rural Development Regulation (RDR) within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as an exemplary manifestation of the New Rural Development Paradigm, has achieved significant results. Nevertheless, it has increasingly become liable to institutional complexity and central control in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494423
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2006
In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is undertaken over the whole time horizon, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753124
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Investitionsbewertung unter Berücksichtigung von Umweltschutz als eigenständigem Formalziel
Stahl, Stefan - 2012
Ansätze der Investitionsbewertung unter Berücksichtigung von Umweltschutz kombinieren klassische Investitionsrechenverfahren …
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Kapitalismus als System zur Verwirklichung moralischer Anliegen - Ordonomische Denkanstöße
Pies, Ingo - 2021
Dieser Beitrag formuliert aus der wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive des ordonomischen Forschungsprogramms einige Denkanstöße, die dazu beitragen sollen, ein differenzierte(re)s Moralurteil über 'Kapitalismus' zu entwickeln: Kapitalismus setzt Wettbewerbsanreize ein, um Produktionseffizienz und...
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Indicators for monitoring sustainable development goals: An application to oceanic development in the EU
Rickels, Wilfried; Dovern, Jonas; Hoffmann, Julia; … - 2015
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with 169 specific targets could be a step forward in achieving efficient governance and policies for global sustainable development. An essential element will be the global indicator...
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Developing the Philippine blue economy: Opportunities and challenges in the ocean tourism sector
Zafra, Maria Angela G. - 2021
Ocean tourism contributes significantly to the economy of the Philippines, an archipelagic nation with one of the … how ocean tourism and economic development intertwine in archipelagic nations, examining national statistical data on … landscape and identifies the enabling and disabling factors for the development of ocean tourism in the Philippines. It …
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Marine Resources, Climate Change and International Management Regimes
Stokke, Olav Schram (contributor);  … - 2022
temperatures and the associated declines in sea ice, ocean acidification and changes in circulation is likely to affect the … geographical distribution of krill, the keystone species of Southern Ocean ecosystems. These developments put established …
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