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Environmental Economics for Sustaining Development : Framework and Tools for Researchers and Policy Makers
Swami, Meenakshi S - 2022
Economics for managing our depleting resources and biodiversity is imperative part of development, more so since sustainable development has been placed on the prime platform for future sustenance of the planet. Sustainable development is at the heart of policy initiatives due to intensive...
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The circular city and the building sector
Franz, Gianfranco - 2020
The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...
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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition
Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - 2013
The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...
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A concept for measuring real estate sustainability from the investors' perspective
Bösche, Janina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 90 (2021) 4, pp. 19-42
Although there is an increasing demand for sustainable investment products accompanied by increasing regulations regarding sustainability disclosures, people suffer from a lack of information concerning the offered investment products' sustainability. Despite hundreds of ESG indicators for...
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City networks and the socio-ecological transition : a European inventory
Labaeye, Adrien; Sauer, Thomas - 2013
Area 5 focuses on the regional and local dimensions of the new European path to socio-ecological transition. Its central assumption is that any strategy developed to enhance a socio-ecological transition is unlikely to yield strong results unless the resources of regional and local actors are...
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Effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment in promoting sustainable development in Tanzania
Alfred, Emanoel; Qamara, Joseph - 2021
This paper examines the extent to which strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is implemented in Tanzania and whether its implementation is in line with generally practised procedures/criteria. Out of 17 completed SEA, eight cases were purposively selected and assessed by applying an...
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Market structure and sustainable use of natural resources
Yegorov, Yuri - 2015
Sustainable use of natural resources becomes an important issue today not only due to global warming and pollution issues but also because of critical pressure on the Earth's regeneration possibility. We cannot use classical microeconomic approach here for two reasons: a) impossibility to create...
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Urban Flooding and Sustainable Land Management – Polish Perspective
Kundzewicz, Zbigniew - 2014
There have been many events connected with damaging abundance of water in Polish towns in recent decades. Some of them have been caused by flood waves on rivers passing through towns. Others have been caused by intense precipitation overwhelming the capacity of storm sewer systems. A brief...
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Urban sustainability through the lens of migration - case study : City of Leskovac, Serbia
Šantić, Danica; Langović, Milica; Đorđević, Dejan Ž. - In: Ekonomske teme 61 (2023) 1, pp. 105-119
through migration. In the Republic of Serbia, after the rapid increase in the number of people living in urban areas due to … internal migration, structural changes in settlements have begun with natural decline and emigration. However, the far …-reaching effects of migration on shrinkage have received little attention in policy or practice. To shed light on and predict possible …
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Integrating environment and economy : strategies for local and regional government
Gouldson, Andrew (ed.); Roberts, Peter (contributor) - 2000 - 1. publ.
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