Infrastructure development with properly planned safeguard measures is essential from the sustainable development perspective for the economic development in developing countries. The paper intends to identify the potential of social safeguard policies for the sustainable transport sector within...

Infrastructure development with properly planned safeguard measures is essential from the sustainable development perspective for the economic development in developing countries. The paper intends to identify the potential of social safeguard policies for the sustainable transport sector within...

This article contributes to the debate on the interaction between private property of renewable resources and sustainability as perceived through its agro-environmental and social dimensions. Based on a DRC example and using an analysis grid derived from the capabilities approach, the article...

Globally, food systems have become heavily industrialized and are currently threatening both environmental sustainability and human health. Feeding a growing world while remaining within safe social-ecological planetary boundaries, as dictated by the UN Social Development Goals and the Paris...

Der nachhaltige Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen ist eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Menschheit. Die interdisziplinäre Online-Plattform MINE-Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy (www.nature-economy.de) will zu einem erfolgreichen Umgang mit dieser Herausforderungbeitragen. MINE...

Globally, food systems have become heavily industrialized and are currently threatening both environmental sustainability and human health. Feeding a growing world while remaining within safe social-ecological planetary boundaries, as dictated by the UN Social Development Goals and the Paris...

Der nachhaltige Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen ist eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Menschheit. Die interdisziplinäre Online-Plattform MINE-Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy (www.nature-economy.de) will zu einem erfolgreichen Umgang mit dieser Herausforderungbeitragen. MINE...

Commercial cattle farming in Namibia, a prime example of livestock farming in semi-arid rangelands, is subject to a variety of risks, predominant among which is precipitation risk. At the same time it suffers from rangeland degradation that is at least partly due to inadequate management. We...

[Vorwort] Am 1. März 2016 fand im Forum des Thünen-Instituts in Braunschweig das 2. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau statt. Ausrichter waren das Thünen-Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, der Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre des Agribusiness der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen...

Studying the sustainable use of ecosystem services under uncertainty requires the consideration of the stochastic dynamics of the system under study, risk and time preferences, risk management strategies and normative views pertaining to sustainability. To gather this information for an...