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Capitalizing on co-benefits and synergies to promote the blue economy in Asia and the Pacific
Kobayashi, Masanori; Watanabe, Atsushi; Furukawa, Keita; … - 2021
sustainable use of marine and coastal resources. An approach to promote co-benefits and synergies is useful for a wide range of … stakeholders. To articulate such co-benefits and synergies, the authors chose cases for analysis based on the co-benefits and … synergies in the promotion of a sustainable blue economy. They performed a socio-ecological system analysis to examine the …
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Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU
Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2013
Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …
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Measuring transformation towards a green economy in Germany
Lutz, Christian; Zieschank, Roland; Drosdowksi, Thomas - 2015
This paper reports results of the study 'Green economy: Measuring sustainable welfare using SEEA data'. It contributes to measuring the progress towards green economy and its understanding for political decision making process in Germany. The definition of green economy follows the BMU approach...
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The Agri-Food trade in Spain: specialization and international competition
Grande, María Josefa Garcia; Morales, José María López - 2015
Agri-food Industry, as the sum of the Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fishing and Food Industry (Food, Beverages and Tobacco) is, except some service activities, the highlight industry of the Spanish economy, not only for their GVA (5.3% in 2013) and employment contribution (6.4% on the...
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Foundations for an ecological macroeconomics: Literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter; Kratena, Kurt; … - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
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Planungsstrategien zur Umsetzung von integrierten Umweltschutzkonzepten für die Landnutzung durch Tourismus, Landwirtschaft und Naturschutz. Eine Evaluation der Umsetzungserfolge i...
2004
Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, das planungsmethodische Wissen zur Umsetzung von Kooperationen von Landwirtschaft, Tourismus und Naturschutz zu erweitern. Der zentrale Untersuchungsgegenstand ist die „Planungsstrategie“. Unter diesem Begriff ist ein systematischer, langfristig orientierter...
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Curvas de custos marginais de abatimento de gases de efeito estufa no Brasil: Resenha e oportunidades de mitigação
da Motta, Ronaldo Seroa; Couto, Lilia Caiado; Castro, Luiza - 2012
This text review the current studies marginal abatement cost curves (MACC) of greenhouse gases (GHG) for the Brazilian economy, in particular for the industrial sector. Studies on technology-based curves has drawn attention of researchers since they have shown a significant amount of...
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Youth Participation in Agriculture in the Nkonkobe District Municipality, South Africa
Cheteni, Priviledge - In: Journal of Human Ecology 55 (2016) 3, pp. 207-213
In this paper, a binary logistic model was used to analyse the determinants of youth participation in agriculture in the Nkonkobe Municipality in South Africa. A total of 140 youth were purposively selected for the study to complete a survey. The results show that the variables; youth...
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The role of participation and communication for energy efficient refurbishment
Bretzmann, Antje; Bäumer, Thomas; Huber, Stephanie - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 675-691
The effort of changing energy production and supply in Germany has not only led to innovative power supply concepts and large grid expansions, but also to ambitious goals for low and zero carbon (LZC) technologies in residential buildings. The present research project has a specific focus within...
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Differential influence of phytase supplementation on the balance of phosphorus and other elements in laying hens' feed
Sobolewska, Sylwia; Orda, Janusz; Budny-Walczak, Anna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 15 (2015) 4, pp. 461-468
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of microbial phytase addition to laying hen diet on the balance of phosphorus, calcium, manganese and zinc. Phytase supplementation caused a decrease in phosphorus excretion by 8% in the group with low-phytase diet and 21% in the group with...
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