Klimawandel, Klimaschutz und Klimapolitik müssen als Treiber eines Strukturwandels angesehen werden. Speziell der politisch durchgesetzte Klimaschutz in Form einer Verminderung von Treibhausgasemissionen hat Veränderungen der Wirtschaftsstruktur in Deutschland zur Folge. Diese Veränderungen...

The paper analyzed the presence or absence of elements needed to have an effective system of watershed management in the Maasin Watershed, Iloilo Province. IT concluded that: a) both the legal and institutional structures needed support watershed management effort are in place; b) there is evidence...

The report 'Achieving Sustainable Natural Resource Management in the Sahel after the Era of Desertification' was written by Simon Bolwig, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Kjeld Rasmussen, Tine Breinholt, and Michael Mortimore as part of a study commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of...

The structure of this working paper is as follows. In the first part after the introduction, the theory underlying the IGS is discussed (Chapter 2); specifically the conceptual framework for which the IGS of a forest management planning design can be developed. Five concepts are discussed here,...

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

Produziert eine Volkswirtschaft unter Nutzung modernster Produktionsmöglichkeiten bereits nahe an der technologischen Grenze, dann entscheiden radikale Innovationen in Hoch- und Spitzentechnologien über das Wirtschaftswachstum. Eine international vergleichende Analyse von 22 OECD-Staaten...

In this paper entrepreneurs are defined as agents who bring about economic change by combining their own effort with other factors of production in search of economic rents. The institutional setup is argued to determine both the supply and direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key...

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume dealing with the political economy of entrepreneurship,* we argue, based on a suggested unifying framework, that political economy is a fruitful approach to entrepreneurship. The importance of institutions in structuring such an analysis is...