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IMPLICATIONS OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT VALUES FOR SELECTED EU MEMBERS
Saveanu, Mircea - In: CES Working Papers 5(4) (2013) December, pp. 588-599
We analyse the state of the environment for 24 EU member states, using the concept of ecological footprint. Findings suggest that 20 of the 24 analysed states are pushing their environment past its yearly regenerative limits. Of these, 10 have surpassed this value by at least two-fold. A few...
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Critical natural capital, ecological resilience and sustainable wetland management: a French case study.
FERRARI, Sylvie; LAVAUD, Sébastien; PEREAU, Jean-Christophe - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2012
operationalised to study the sustainability of wetlands ecosystems in the Gironde Estuary region (France). …
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Dematerialisation of consumption: a win-win strategy?
Kronenberg, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
A dematerialisation of the economy can provide a crucial contribution toward sustainable devel-opment. It can take place in the production sphere through technological change or in the con-sumption sphere through altered consumer behaviour. This paper focuses on the second case, a shift of...
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Endangering the natural basis of life is unjust. On the status and future of the sustainability discourse
Becker, Christian; Ewringmann, Dieter; Faber, Malte; … - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2012
The paper critically examines the status of the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics against the … backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the … sustainability has been neglected due to a problematic interpretation of the economic dimension, a limited understanding of justice …
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Ecological-economic viability as a criterion of strong sustainability under uncertainty
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2007
Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks … therefore define strong sustainability under uncertainty in an operational manner, we propose to use the concept of viability … of viability as special cases. It provides an operational criterion of strong sustainability under conditions of …
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Consumer attitude and behavior towards Bio-products in Slovak Republic
Chovancova, Jana; Huttmanova, Emilia - In: Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 3 (2014) 2, pp. 45-52
sustainability. The aim of this paper is to analyze consumer attitude and behavior as well as the factors influencing purchasing …
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On the Sustainability of Cultural Capital
Throsby, David - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005
of capital and shows how they contribute to sustainability. Criteria for weak and strong sustainability are considered …, on the basis of which a strong sustainability rule for cultural capital is derived. It is speculated that certain …
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Economic drivers of biological invasions: A worldwide, bio-geographic analysis
Dalmazzone, Silvana; Giaccaria, Sergio - In: Ecological Economics 105 (2014) C, pp. 154-165
The introduction of invasive alien species (IAS) is generally acknowledged to depend both on the propagule pressure imposed by openness to international trade and on the health of the receiving ecosystem. Bio-geographic factors however play a crucial role in determining the level of risk...
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...
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Transiciones socioecológicas en la región andina
Falconí, Fander; Vallejo, María Cristina - In: Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica 18 (2012) Abril, pp. 53-71
El propósito de este documento es identificar los determinantes claves para lograr ―transiciones socioecológicas‖ en la región andina. Se analizan de manera integrada las interacciones entre los aspectos de eficiencia económica, distribución del ingreso y sustentabilidad física...
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