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technologies and electrical drive engineering in the field of individual motor car traffic. Based on these insights some … significant implications of electric vehicles regarding future trends in traffic, important environmental effects as well as the …
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-related conflict in a rural area and on a conflict about traffic calming in an urban neighbourhood. Thereby we show how localist …
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Die Möglichkeit zur multilokalen Lebensführung (ML) hängt von der Erreichbarkeit der Wohnstandorte relativ zueinander ab. Diese wiederum ergibt sich aus der zu überwindenden Distanz und den Verkehrsangeboten (Infrastrukturen und Services). Die spezifischen Ansprüche multilokal lebender...
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This paper quantifies the marginal willingness to pay for a reduction of automobile traffic. By using a new structural … traffic by city and per year ranges between €30.3-59.2 for a 10% reduction, €93.8-158.3 for a 20% reduction and €190.6-252 for … a 30% reduction. The highest willingness to pay for a reduction of traffic is observed in Frankfurt am Main, the lowest …
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This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...
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This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In particular, we investigate how trade liberalisation and capital market integration affect environmental policy and thus environmental quality. Conversely, we also study how...
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Ecolabel award schemes have become increasingly popular. Their rationale is to enable (concerned) consumers to identify "green" products. By so doing, ecolabelling should stimulate environmental innovation, and induce firms to reduce the supply of conventional (polluting) products. Our analysis...
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Environmental policy instruments have an impact on the incentives to invest in environmental R&D and this link should deserve careful consideration when introducing new instruments. Some authors argue that environmental taxes and tradable permits have rather comparable impacts on environmental...
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The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...
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The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...
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