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Regionale Mobilität - erneuerbar und klimafreundlich
Neumann, Hans-Martin - In: Schneller, öfter, weiter? Perspektiven der …, (pp. 202-215). 2011
Weltweit streben immer mehr Regionen Energieautonomie an. Angesichts der Zukunftsrisiken Klimawandel und Erdölverknappung beabsichtigen sie, ihren Energiebedarf zu 100 % aus eigenen erneuerbaren und daher CO2-neutralen Quellen zu decken. Während viele Regionen bei der Produktion von...
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Bundes- und landespolitische Rahmenbedingungen der Elektromobilität: Strukturräumliche Implikationen
Wappelhorst, Sandra - In: Potenziale neuer Mobilitätsformen und -technologien …, (pp. 48-73). 2016
Eine integrierte und nachhaltige Mobilitätsentwicklung stellt die Verkehrspolitik auch zukünftig vor zentrale Herausforderungen. Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels und der Verknappung fossiler Energieträger wird es auch in Zukunft notwendig sein, Strategien und Konzepte zu entwickeln, die...
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Growing Pains of Industrial Renewal – Case Nordic Cleantech
Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi; Adriaens, Peter; Kotiranta, Annu - 2016
To steer economies onto a sustainable path in a way that is compatible with the urgent priorities of economic developers, sustainability needs to come with new business opportunities, growing markets and, most importantly, new jobs. The big question becomes then how do you wed economic growth...
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Auf dem Weg zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit: Erfolge und Herausforderungen 25 Jahre nach dem Brundtland-Bericht
Bardt, Hubertus; Voss, Gerhard; Techert, Holger; … - 2012
"Dauerhafte Entwicklung ist Entwicklung, die die Bedürfnisse der Gegenwart befriedigt, ohne zu riskieren, dass künftige Generationen ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse nicht befriedigen können." Mit dieser Definition gab die Brundtland-Kommission vor 25 Jahren den Startschuss zur...
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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished
Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460
with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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Offsetting versus Mitigation Activities to Reduce CO2 Emissions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis for the U.S. and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
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Using Surveys to Compare the Public’s and Decisionmakers’ Preferences for Urban Regeneration: The Venice Arsenale
Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto; Riganti, Patrizia - 2006
In this paper, we illustrate how surveys can be used to elicit the preferences of the public and of policymakers and city officials for regeneration projects at urban sites. Our methodology uses rating exercises, coupled with conjoint-choice stated preferences for the general public and with...
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Sustainable greenhouse policies: The role of non-CO 2 gases
Michaelis, Peter - 1997
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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The Growth-Environment Trade-off: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovations
Grimaud, André; Ricci, Francesco - 1999
This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...
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On the art of aggregating "apples & oranges"
Jesinghaus, Jochen - 2000
decisions; that bad indicators are thus a recipe for bad politics; how an indicator system that serves democratic decision …
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