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This evaluation of the EU’s cooperation with the Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region (EA-SA-IO) aims to: - Provide an overall and independent assessmentof the past and current cooperation. - Identify lessons learned and make recommendations to inform current and future...
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discuss policy implications. The paper is structured as follows. After a definition of the concepts of "resources" and … "sustainability" in Section 2, economic theory is reviewed with regard to the capacity of markets to generate optimal time paths for … the exploitation of nonrenewable resources (Section 3). Section 4 presents an interpretation of sustainability that can be …
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This report presents an inventory of existing scenarios studies relevant for Europe in the context of sustainable development, including European and global models. It also provides a useful review of a selected number of scenarios and pinpoints their strengths and weaknesses.
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A. Sustainability is a specific term with a specific meaning: it requires avoiding ecological overshoot. B. Overshoot can be measured. And there is evidence that humanity is in overshoot. In fact, most industrialized countries run massive ecological deficits. C. To move out of overshoot,...
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The aim of this report is to demonstrate the need to reduce the consumption of natural resources (environmental impacts …) in the economy and provide the initial impetus for a new policy to keep the use of natural resources within sustainable … limits. (By ‘natural resources’ we mean the global reserves of natural resources and raw materials by used human beings …
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This report provides an overview of resource efficiency policies and instruments in 31 member and cooperating countries of the European Environment Agency network (Eionet). A detailed survey was conducted during the first half of 2011 to collect, analyse and disseminate information about...
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