The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We...

The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...

This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...

Nordrhein-Westfalen steht, wie viele entwickelte Industrieregionen, vor einer Reihe neuer Herausforderungen, die nur durch das Anstoßen von Innovationsprozessen, also die Erforschung, Entwicklung, Erprobung und Markteinführung neuer oder verbesserter Verfahren, Produkte und Dienstleistungen zu...