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Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa
Oyinlola, Muyiwa (contributor);  … - 2023
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives exploring challenges and opportunities for...
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Long-Run Growth and Recycling: A Material Balance Approach
Pittel, Karen; Amigues, Jean-Pierre; Kuhn, Thomas - 2006
In this paper we analyze the implications of recycling for long-run economic development. In contrast to former … our model. We focus on the implications of recycling-related market failures and the integration of material balances on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753102
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Assessing circularity interventions: A review of EEIOA-based studies
Aguilar-Hernandez, Glenn A.; Sigüenza-Sanchez, Carlos Pablo - In: Journal of Economic Structures 7 (2018) 14, pp. 1-24
recycling activities and specifying such actions in the EEIOA model if they are not explicitly presented. Product lifetime …
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Introducing a system operator in the waste management industry by adapting lessons from the energy sector
Di Foggia, Giacomo; Beccarello, Massimo - In: Frontiers in Sustainability: Sec. Circular Economy (2022), pp. 1-10
Governance of waste management is historically based on local issues, with different applications and rules across countries. To meet the increasing number of circular economic goals, countries worldwide are seeking to improve the efficiency of waste management markets in terms of environmental...
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Sustainable development and neo-liberal globalisation in international politics: Competing paradigms defining the waste management problem
Reinvang, Rasmus - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 13 (2013) 3, pp. 239-254
The unsustainable production and consumption patterns leading to a problem with waste management require technical and administrative solution on a local, regional or national level. Efforts may be challenged by processes of globalisation and international politics. The author discusses the...
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Economic development and transfrontier shipments of waste in Poland: Spatio-temporal analysis
Antczak, Elżbieta - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 17 (2014) 4, pp. 5-21
The aim of the paper is to apply the spatio-temporal Environmental Kuznets Curve (SpEKC) to test the relationship between economic growth and the amount of collected mixed municipal waste. The analysis was conducted at the level of sixty-six Polish sub-regions. The study contained selected...
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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325125
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Can nature promote development? The role of sustainable tourism for economic growth
Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph - 2010
We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in...
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Zum systematischen Stellenwert von Wirtschaftswachstum: Ziel, Mittel oder weder noch?
Hirata, Johannes - 2012
In der gegenwärtigen Debatte um die Ziele sozio-ökonomischer Entwicklung nimmt Wirtschaftswachstum eine zentrale, wenn … auch umstrittene Rolle ein. Während die eine Seite Wirtschaftswachstum als etwas Erstrebenswertes betrachtet, da sie es als … diese beiden Positionen kritisch und argumentiert, dass beide einen Fehler begehen, indem sie Wirtschaftswachstum zu einem …
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A socially just transition through the European Green Deal?
Sabato, Sebastiano; Fronteddu, Boris - 2020
The aim of this working paper is to provide a preliminary assessment of whether the European Green Deal constitutes a suitable policy framework to combine environmental and economic objectives with the pursuit of social fairness, thus ensuring a just transition towards more sustainable economies...
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