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Green accounting, institutional quality and investment decisions : macroeconomic implications from an analysis of the oil and mining sector
Stöver, Jana - 2016
physical and natural capital. Since these two types of capital are used jointly in the industry's production process, the firms … face a dual investment decision, whereby they have to decide on the investment into both types of capital simultaneously … then shown that the form of capital aggregation in national accounting can lead to an underestimation of the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419424
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Sustainable Versus Unsustainable Propositions
Dernbach, John C. - 2015
This article is a critique of Bjoslash;rn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) from the perspective of sustainable development. While the author often uses the language of sustainable development, the book would turn sustainability on its head. It is generally true, as Lomborg says,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750255
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Citizen Suits and Sustainability
Dernbach, John C. - 2015
The article explores what we can learn about sustainable development, and the progress the United States has already made or not made, by looking at citizen suits under United States environmental law. The article focuses on four aspects of citizen suits: the manner in which they allow access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219717
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Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics : a critical appraisal
McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Hanley, Nick - 2024
There has been widespread debate about whether the way in which we measure economic activity is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this debate is to move away from measuring a nation's income (GDP) towards monitoring a nation's assets (their inclusive wealth), as a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502348
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Optionen der deutschen Wirtschaft für eine sichere Rohstoffversorgung
Bähr, Cornelius; Bardt, Hubertus; Neligan, Adriana - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 50 (2023) 3, pp. 67-86
Die Risiken der Rohstoffversorgung haben sich für die deutsche Industrie in den letzten Jahren erhöht. Vor allem politische Versorgungsrisiken sind deutlich angestiegen, während Preisrisiken tendenziell abgenommen haben. Besonders groß war der Risikozuwachs bei Rohstoffen, die für...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340633
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Optionen der deutschen Wirtschaft für eine sichere Rohstoffversorgung
Bähr, Cornelius; Bardt, Hubertus; Neligan, Adriana - In: IW-Trends : die vierteljährliche Zeitschrift zur … 50 (2023) 3, pp. 67-86
Die Risiken der Rohstoffversorgung haben sich für die deutsche Industrie in den letzten Jahren erhöht. Vor allem politische Versorgungsrisiken sind deutlich angestiegen, während Preisrisiken tendenziell abgenommen haben. Besonders groß war der Risikozuwachs bei Rohstoffen, die für...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339930
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Stabilization and savings funds to manage natural resource revenues: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan vs. Norway
Lücke, Matthias - 2010
. The key challenges are to stabilize government expenditures despite volatile resource prices, build up a capital stock to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285363
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A Curriculum on Sustainable Information Communication Technology
Özkan, Barış - 2015
Economies are increasingly becoming dependent on Information Communication Technology (ICT) and concerns over sustainability have called for the investigation of the relation between sustainability and ICT. While the majority of the studies in this field have an environmentalist focus in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015428
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Sustainable Landfilling As Final Step of Municipal Waste Management System
Widomski, Marcin - 2017
This paper discusses the role of sustainable landfilling of municipal waste in the current systems of municipal waste management systems as the manner of final disposal of wastes. The actual data considering share of landfilling as final waste disposal in various countries all over the world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959227
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049342