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Performance analysis of the closed loop supply chain
Asif, Farazee MA; Bianchi, Carmine; Rashid, Amir; … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 2 (2012), pp. 1-21
Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...
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Green, Closed Loop, Circular Bio-Economy
Achillas, Charisios (contributor);  … - 2021
In recent years, bioeconomy strategies have been implemented and adapted internationally. In the bioeconomy, materials are to a certain extent circular by nature. However, biomaterials may also be used in a rather linear way. Lately, a transition towards a circular economy, a more restorative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323774
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The governance of global value chains, the state, and small businesses: The case of timber in Myanmar
Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019
smallholder wood industry in Myanmar is at risk of stagnating at best, if not disappearing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146564
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On the Choice of Farm Management Practices after the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in 2003
Schmid, Erwin; Sinabell, Franz - 2004
financial aspects. Using an agricultural sector model for Austria, we show that the reform will further decrease agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435160
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Should Cross-border Services between Austria and Slovenia Still be Restricted? An Economic Assessment of the Existing Market Regulations
Döring, Thomas; Aigner, Birgit - 2009
for the economic usefulness of the afore-mentioned restrictions of cross-border service activities between Austria and … the empirical situation of cross-border trade in goods and services between Austria and Slovenia in order to argue that … Austria has a "double dividend" with respect to the existing regulatory system. In part three, the question is asked to what …
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Effect of changes in tax/benefit policies in Austria 1998 - 2005
Fuchs, Michael; Lietz, Christine - 2007
The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether policy reforms in Austria between 1998 and 2005 were successful in meeting …
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Freight Transport Time Savings and Organizational Performance: A Systemic Approach
Sambracos, Evangelos; Ramfou, Irene - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 19-40
This paper investigates the effect of freight transport time savings (FTTS) on the performance of transport consuming companies. In the first part existing methods on FTTS valuation are critically discussed and their limitations are identified. Following, a conceptual model is built introducing...
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Study of System Dynamics on the Equilibrium Development of Ecological and Economic System in Ordos of Inner Mongolia in China
KE, WenLan; SHA, JingHua; YAN, JingJing - 2013
Along with the accelerated process of industrialization and urbanization, China is faced with several severe situations, such as resource constraint, environmental pollution and ecological degradation, which now have aroused the attention of Chinese government. Meanwhile, In the process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397349
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Modelling the impacts of a national carbon tax in a country with inhomogeneous regional development: an actor-based system-dynamic approach
Kovalevsky, Dmitry V.; Hasselmann, Klaus - 2014
Different countries of the world are affected differently by the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. For a large country consisting of several regions with different geographical conditions, the direct geographical impacts of climate change may differ significantly. Given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400073
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SIMBIOSES: Modelling Industrial Metabolism in a Multi-Regional Economic System
Janssen, Marco A.; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 1999
A model framework, SIMBIOSES, is presented which describes economic activities and relatedmaterial, substance and energy flows in a multi-region and multi-sector economic system. Theconceptual design of the framework is discussed in relation to current issues on dematerializationand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324688