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An optimal policy mix for resource use
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Wiedenhofer, Dominik - 2014
With reference to the use of material and energy resources, we seek to • underline the need for a marked socio-ecological transition. Business-as-usual will fail in the face of an unprecendented rise in global demand, a rising price level and volatility of raw materials and indications of...
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Urban agenda and urban sustainability strategies : taking stock of policy implementation and policy discussion
Barnebeck, Stephanie; Kalff, Yannick - 2015
Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341240
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Achieving absolute decoupling? : comparing biophysical scenarios and macro-economic modelling results
Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Fischer-Kowalski, Marina - 2015
Most economic models struggle to incorporate biophysical relationships between materials, energy and emissions, in order to appropriately deal with biophysical constraints of supply (and possibly also demand). After the incorporation of biophysical constraints, some functions produced surprising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337041
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Regional perspectives and distributional effects of European regional policies
Bonfiglio, Andrea; Esposti, Roberto; Pagliacci, Francesco; … - 2014
A major objective of this study is to analyse the evolutionary patterns of regional linkages and disparities across the EU space, especially those related to rural and peripheral/remote regions. In particular, this report assesses the economy-wide effects, in terms of GDP and employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426507
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What innovation policies for ecological transition? : powering the green innovation machine
Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014
In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336729
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Foundations for an ecological macroeconomics : literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter A.; Kratena, Kurt; … - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
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Policy responses by different agents/stakeholders in a transition: integrating the Multi-level Perspective and behavioral economics
Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Drake, Ben; Jackson, Tim; … - 2014
This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426483
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The role of product and process innovation in CGE models of environmental policy
Baccianti, Claudio; Löschel, Andreas - 2014
to integrate endogenous technological progress. Nevertheless, several complexities of innovation are still neglected even … modelling literature through a special lens. We discuss how existing models deal with different types of innovation (i ….e. product and process innovation) and how differences in innovation activities influence modelling results. We also emphasise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426510
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Large scale societal transitions in the past
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Hausknost, Daniel - 2013
WP 201 takes a historical perspective in analysing past systemic social-ecological transition processes. The research paper (MS 27) emerging from task 201.2 explores two major energy transitions of the past: the transition to the use of fossil fuels (e.g. starting with coal in the UK in the 17th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430793
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Technology platforms in Europe : an empirical investigation
De Propris, Lisa; Corradini, Carlo - 2013 - revised version
In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431699