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Ecological Economics - Aspects of Research
Maier-Rigaud, Gerhard - 2012
. It is an approach without analogy in the history of science. Therefore, any research strategy following standard … research field?The following pages raise some of these basic questions and reflect on major misleading assumptions research in … ecological economics unwittingly relies on. An outlook is given as to the aspects on which research in this field should now …
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Green Marketing- A Boon for Sustainable Development
Wandhe, Priyanka - 2019
Environmental issues have gained importance in business as well as in public life throughout the world. So in this scenario of global concern, corporate houses has taken green-marketing as a part of their strategy to promote products by employing environmental claims either about their...
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HANPP calculated from land cover as indicator of ecological sustainability
Garí, Josep A. - 2018
This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author coins HANPP: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. This indicator estimates the extent of human use of ecological and land resources, contributing to the nascent ecological-footprint movement...
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A model of eco-efficiency and recycling
Cogoy, Mario (contributor) - 2009
This paper presents the model of an economy subject to the mass conservation principle. The economic system is related to the environment by a flow of virgin materials into the economy, and by the diffusion of waste into the environment. Eco-efficiency contributes to reducing material waste in...
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How to be an ecological economist
Faber, Malte - 2007
fragility also represents freedom, scope for free thinking, conceptualising and research. Nevertheless, to be able to really use …
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Why uncertainty matters : discounting under intertemporal risk aversion and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian - 2012
Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty and uncertainty attitude changes this picture fundamentally. The analysis relies on the discount rate, which is the crucial determinant in balancing...
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness
Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Withagen, Cees - 2001
subsequently usedto present guidelines for future primary research in this area. …
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Location decision of foreign direct investment : the role of environmental policy and natural resources
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2011
This paper examines whether lax environmental policy and abundant natural resources both attract foreign direct investment (FDI). At first, their potential effects are discussed using arguments from the pollution haven hypothesis and the natural resource curse. Using cross-country Ordinary Least...
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Competitive altruism and endogenous reference group selection in private provision of environmental public goods
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2012
We develop and test a model of social comparison in which individuals gain status through pro-social behavior (competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in signaling status (reference group selection). In our...
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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity
Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001
This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...
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