Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Nachhaltigkeitsforscher, an Fachleute aus Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Politik sowie an all diejenigen, die sich für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen des demografischen Wandels interessieren. Der Autor untersucht, welchen...

Resilience is the ability of an entity to manage a destabilizing shock or rise in pressure. The recently published State Resilience Index (SRI) includes ecological resilience along with several other "pillars" of state resilience. Given that indicators of subjective well-being (SWB) are...

The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...