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The role of urban green space for human well-being
Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2014
Most people in Europe live in urban environments. For these people, urban green space is an important element of well-being, but it is often in short supply. We use self-reported information on life satisfaction and different individual green space measures to explore how urban green space...
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How to be an Ecological Economist
Faber, Malte - 2007
To answer the question "How to be an Ecological Economist", we must start by defining the field of Ecological Economics. Mainstream Economics altogether lacks the concepts required to deal adequately with nature, justice and time. It was the absence of these three concepts in this otherwise...
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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition
Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - 2013
call – Wealth, a value in which material and immaterial resources are combined with the goal to enrich people‘s lives and …, welfare and well-being, wealth and work. We also look at the various dimensions and definitions of transition … wealth as the productive base of an economy. Sustainable growth and development needs to rest on a comprehensive …
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Subjective Well-Being, Politics and Political Economy
Frey, Bruno S. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 147 (2011) 4, pp. 397-415
Happiness research has significantly extended our knowledge about the factors determining individual well-being. Several prominent scholars concluded that governments should engage in maximizing happiness. This approach is based on a technocratic notion that politicians are omniscient benevolent...
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Die narrative Krise der (Wirtschafts-)Wissenschaft und ihre Bedeutung in der globalen Umweltpolitik
Heller, Hannah - 2020
(Wirtschafts-)wissenschaftliches Wissen wird durch narratives Wissen legitimiert. In der Moderne haben sich jedoch monetäre Vergesellschaftungs- und Denkformen herausgebildet, mit denen ein antagonistisches Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis einhergeht. Als Metanarrative sind sie in gesellschaftlichen...
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Drinking and protecting: a market approach to the preservation of cork oak landscapes
Ahlheim, Michael; Frör, Oliver - 2010
With the availability of new techniques to close wine bottles avoiding the risk of “corky” taste the tradition of closing wine bottles with cork stoppers is on the retreat. As a consequence the Mediterranean cork oak forests with their rich biodiversity are endangered since their cultivation...
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Quantifizierung 'gesellschaftlich gewünschter, nicht marktgängiger Leistungen' der Landwirtschaft
Plankl, Reiner; Weingarten, Peter; Nieberg, Hiltrud; … - 2010
In den Diskussionen über die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik nach 2013 nimmt die Honorierung nicht marktgängiger gesellschaftlicher Leistungen der Landwirtschaft eine zentrale Rolle ein. Unterschiedliche Ansichten bestehen darüber, was unter diesen Leistungen genau zu verstehen ist und wie sie...
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A modelling approach for allocating land-use in space to maximise social welfare - exemplified on the problem of wind power generation
Drechsler, Martin; Ohl, Cornelia; Meyerhoff, Jürgen; … - 2010
Land-use conflicts arise if land is scarce, land-use types are mutually exclusive, and vary in their effects with regard to more than one incongruent policy objective. If these effects depend on the spatial location of the land-use measures the conflict can be mediated through an appropriate...
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Statistical Modelling of Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan
Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Chang, Ching-Chung - 2013
In this paper, the annual maximum daily rainfall data from 1961 to 2010 are modelled for 18 stations in Taiwan. We fit the rainfall data with stationary and non-stationary generalized extreme value distributions (GEV), and estimate their future behaviour based on the best fitting model. The...
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Statistical Modelling of Recent Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan
Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Wang, Szu-Hua - 2012
This paper has two primary purposes. First, we fit the annual maximum daily rainfall data for 6 rainfall stations, both with stationary and non-stationary generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions for the periods 1911-2010 and 1960-2010 in Taiwan, and detect the changes between the two...
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