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Modeling Spatial Sustainability: Spatial Welfare Economics versus Ecological Footprint
Grazi, Fabio; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2006
A spatial welfare framework for the analysis of the spatial dimensions of sustainability is developed. It incorporates agglomeration effects, interregional trade, negative environmental externalities and various land use categories. The model is used to compare rankings of spatial configurations...
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Aktuelle Forschung in der Gartenbauökonomie: Tagungsband zum 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche Göttingen
Dirksmeyer, Walter (contributor);  … - 2015
[Vorwort] Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die...
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Intensity and the importance of country level differences: An analysis of the relationship between per capita emissions and population density
Longden, Thomas - 2015
emissions from land transport. In contrast, this paper finds a positive relationship between per capita CO2 emissions from … transport and population density using a dataset of over 200 cities from 28 countries. This positive relationship holds when a … the estimated relationship between urban population density and emissions from transport is different across the two …
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Carbon policy and the structure of global trade
Balistreri, Edward J.; Böhringer, Christoph; … - 2015
Alternative perspectives on the structure of international trade have important implications for the evaluation of climate policy. In this paper we assess climate policy in the context of three important alternative trade formulations. First is a Heckscher-Ohlin model based on trade in...
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Unilateral carbon pricing and heterogeneous firms
Sogalla, Robin - 2023
Several empirical studies document the relevance of firm heterogeneity to assess the effect of trade and environmental policy. This paper develops a multi-country and -sector general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous firms and analyzes the effect of domestic carbon pricing as well as...
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Green cities? Urbanization, trade and the environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2013
commuting within cities, goods transport between cities, production of manufacturing and agricultural goods, and residential …
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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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How alternative food networks work in a metropolitan area? An analysis of Solidarity Purchase Groups in Northern Italy
Baldi, Lucia; Bertoni, Danilo; Migliore, Giuseppina; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-21
Our paper focuses on Solidarity Purchase Group (SPG) participants located in a highly urbanized area, with the aim to investigate the main motivations underlining their participation in a SPG and provide a characterization of them. To this end, we carried out a survey of 795 participants...
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Regionale Produkte in der Gemeinschaftsverpflegung: aktuelle Situation, Hemmnisse und Förderndes bei der Verwendung
Arens-Azevedo, Ulrike - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 81 (2012) 4, pp. 147-162
Regionale Produkte werden in der Gemeinschaftsverpflegung (GV) bisher eher zufällig in das Speisenangebot integriert. Ihre Verwendung bietet eine Reihe von Vorteilen, die Erhöhung des Anteils ist politisch gewollt. Ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung bei GV-Betrieben der...
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The holism principle in agriculture sustainable development
Zegar, Józef Stanisław; Wrzaszcz, Wioletta - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1051-1069
The idea of sustainable development, extended at the end of 20th century, takes the form of a strategic concept in the field of socio-economic development in many countries and their regional groupings. It is also being promoted by international organizations, considering the United Nations and...
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