Durch Abspülung von Abraumhalden einer Edelmetallmine südlich von Tbilisi in Georgien wird der Fluss Mashavera stark mit extrem schwermetallhaltigen (Kupfer, Zink, Cadmium) Schwebstoffen befrachtet. Das Wasser des Mashavera wird über mehrere Kanäle in das Bewässerungssystem des...

Die Bekämpfung der Desertifikation hat sich die 1992 vereinbarte und 1994 in Kraft getretene Desertifikationskonvention, neben der Klimarahmen- und der Biodiversitätskonvention die dritte große Umweltkonvention, zum Ziel gesetzt. Ist zur Desertifikationsbekämpfung jedoch ein international...

We examine different market-based mechanisms and other incentives intended to promote the environmental remediation and reuse of brownfields. Policies that encourage cleanup and re-use of brownfields offer real estate developers reductions in regulatory burden, relief from liability for future...

This paper studies the consequences of certain widespread policies for the quality and sustainability of growth. These policies cause economic inefficiency, environmental destruction and increased poverty. The paper develops a political economy model to show why the existence of such policies is...

Since the publication of the Report of the Brundtland Commission (Our Common Future) in 1987, and the consequent Earth Summit on sustainable development, global attention on natural resource scarcity and degradation has been increasing, because of climate change and rising food and energy...

In the domain of desertification and climate change an important amount of new knowledge and research material has been obtained from the many projects carried out in the EU-DG12 Environment and Climate programme. However, so far little effort has gone into making this scientific material...

This paper analyses the relationship between rural poverty and soil degradation in the context of a shifting cultivating community. A deterministic optimal control model demonstrates how a representative household's labour allocation affects the natural resource base on which its livelihood...