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The relatively new and still amorphous concept of "Green Growth" can be understood as a call for balancing longer-term investments in sustaining environmental wealth with nearer-term income growth to reduce poverty. We draw on a large body of economic theory available for providing insights on...
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the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource …
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This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
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This report, developed within the framework of the OECD Green Cities programme, is a pilot case study examining the green growth potential of the Paris-IDF region. In a context of stiff international competition and internal socio-economic and environmental pressures, green growth could be an...
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the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource …
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crisis. Since the 1970s, Korea has become one of the most energy-intensive economies in the OECD area, thanks to higher …
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makers to increase growth in material consumption at the expense of the environment. Moreover, as Repetto (1989) and others …
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consumption can be found. Changes in the external environment and incredibly disruptive international events significantly … influence consumer behaviour. In view of geopolitical changes, the energy crisis, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the … instability of the energy market, the European Commission has drawn up a series of plans to ensure Europe's independence from …
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. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels … emissions and improve energy security, while enabling sustainable agriculture and improved natural resource management. …
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In this chapter both theory and empirics are used to show that our picture of the processes of economic development changes radically when nature is introduced as a capital asset. Particular features of institutions that fashion societies' use of the natural-resource base are identified and...
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