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Global environmental governance: The United Nations convention to combat desertification
Rechkemmer, Andreas - 2004
This discussion paper is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306677
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The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought: Toward an integrated global assessment
Nkonya, Ephraim; Gerber, Nicolas; Baumgartner, Philipp; … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323650
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Harnessing the forces of urban expansion: The public economics of farmland development allowance
Chau, Nancy H.; Zhang, Weiwen - 2011
For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely unnoticed - the addition of newly cultivated land in China through land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323653
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Economic and ecological transformation processes in East German water management regimes : the role of property rights and governance structures
Schleyer, Christian - 2002
Like in many low moor regions in East Germany, long-standing intensive arable farming - enabled by complex melioration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262897
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Does German development aid promote German exports?
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2008
exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291870
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The winding road to industrial safety: Evidence on the effects of environmental liability on accident prevention in Germany
Hoffmeister, Onno; Schwarze, Reimund - 2007
The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental damages with the aim to increase firms? efforts to prevent accidents. Previous studies find poor evidence that this goal has actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293420
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293998
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294455
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Innovation and exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294458
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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: First comparative evidence on the post-acquisition target performance using new data
Weche Gelübcke, John P. - 2012
This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score … Germany which find significant productivity improvements and no changes in terms of employment. These findings are of … particular interest to Germany as one of the most important FDI in ow destinations worldwide. They contribute to the foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294459