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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54
The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong...
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Regional wheat price effects of extreme weather events and wheat export controls in Russia and Ukraine
Götz, Linde; Djuric, Ivan; Nivievskyi, Oleg - 2016
This paper further builds on the price transmission model framework of existing studies to identify domestic wheat price effects of wheat export controls. We explicitly take the fact into account that a harvest failure causes domestic price effects as well. Moreover, the analysis at the regional...
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Revisiting the global food architecture: Lessons from the 2008 food crisis
Christiaensen, Luc - 2009
The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market functioning and policymaking must be addressed....
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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures
Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-34, pp. 1-41
Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by...
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Labor markets and modern economic cycles: The growing role of the sixth Schumpeter-Kontratiev wave
Runiewicz-Wardyn, Ma±gorzata; Rutkowski, Jakub; … - 2024
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Towards a Theory of Climate Innovation - A Model Framework for Analyzing Drivers and Determinants
Ehrenfeld, Wilfried - 2012
enterprises' operational environment. This article contributes to environmental innovation literature by providing a comprehensive … this context, the prime issue is how the perception of climate change affects corporate innovation processes. Firstly, the …Der Klimawandel - einschließlich seiner möglichen Ursachen und Folgen - ist eines derjenigen Themen, die derzeit am …
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Climate Innovation - The Case of the Central German Chemical Industry
Ehrenfeld, Wilfried - 2012
In this article, we describe the results of a multiple case study on the indirect corporate innovation impact of … driver for incremental energy efficiency innovations in the enterprises' production processes. For product innovation … gelangen dabei zu der Auffassung, dass der Klimawandel betriebliche Innovationen über verschiedene Kanäle vorantreibt. Ein …
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Klimawandel und betriebliche Innovationsprozesse
Ehrenfeld, Wilfried - 2012
and Corporate Innovation Processes' an der Technischen Universität Dresden dar. Diese besteht aus sechs bereits … veröffentlichten Fachartikeln. Durch die gegenwärtig öffentlich geführte Diskussion zum Thema Klimawandel stehen europäische … Möglichkeit, auf diese neuen Ansprüche zu reagieren, ist Anpassung durch Innovation. Das übergeordnete Ziel der Dissertation ist …
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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems
Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2023
Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...
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Plädoyer für saubere Braunkohle
Blum, Ulrich; Pies, Ingo - 2017
Die Politik in Deutschland sollte sich nicht mit Forderungen zum Ausstieg aus der ver-meintlich "schmutzigen" Braunkohle begnügen, sondern ernsthaft daran arbeiten, den Einstieg in eine "saubere" Braunkohlewirtschaft zu organisieren, um als Pionier auch anderen Ländern einen Weg zu weisen, wie...
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