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Organic farming in the context of the bioeconomy
Cofas, Elena; Vlad, Cristina Mihaela; Berevoianu, Rozi … - 2013
development environment and long-term alternatives in order to improve the quality of life and eliminate possible impoverishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288248
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Rethinking the Political Economy of Environmental Conflict: Lessons from the UK Fracking Controversy
Marshall, Adam Patrick - 2023
literature at the intersection of ecological economics and political ecology. Despite offering numerous insights regarding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014543666
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Enabling a sustainable Fourth Industrial Revolution: How G20 countries can create the conditions for emerging technologies to benefit people and the planet
Herweijer, Celine; Combes, Benjamin; Johnson, Leo; … - 2018
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) offers huge potential to transform and realign our economies and societies. There is an increasing realization that the 4IR could also exacerbate problems for people and the planet. The G20 should champion a holistic approach to the 4IR that helps to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817096
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Full‐cost accounting and redefining the cost of food: Implications for agricultural economics research
von Braun, Joachim; Hendriks, Sheryl L. - In: Agricultural Economics 54 (2023) 4, pp. 451-454
Food systems have significant externalities that are not reflected in market prices. A first step to correct parts of … these externalities is to make them transparent through “true‐” or full‐cost accounting. Estimates of the external health … at market prices, that is, about 20 trillion US$ of externalities versus 9 trillion US$ of food value in the markets. The …
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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500438
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Country Case Study: Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in the Philippines. European Commission's SWITCH-Asia PROGRAMME
Sta. Romana, Leonardo L. - In: Sustainable Asia: Supporting the Transition to …, (pp. 239-266). 2015
environment and climate, with a view to finding out whether they are environmentally sustainable or not. It presents the initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731492
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International spillovers and water quality in rivers: Do countries free ride?
Sigman, Hilary - 2001
Transboundary spillovers may degrade environmental quality if countries free ride. This paper examines the extent of such degradation in water quality in international rivers. Using data from river monitoring stations in the UN's Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318361
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Regional energy effciency programs in Russia: The factors of success
Ratner, Svetlana Valerievna; Ratner, Pavel - In: REGION 3 (2016) 1, pp. 71-87
In this paper, we study the reasons for extremely high difference in energy intensity of the Russian regions under different methodological approaches. We compare the most popular measures of state's energy efficiency policy in Russia with best world practices and investigate the factors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524800
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Effective clusters as territorial performance engines in a regional development strategy: A triple-layer DEA assessment of the aviation valley in Poland
Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Suzuki, Soushi - In: REGION 4 (2017) 3, pp. 39-63
Regional development policy aims to cope with the challenge of spatial disparities. It is based on a smart combination of various critical capital assets in a region which functionally and spatially interact and which yield synergetic economic opportunities and promising challenges for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591417
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325173