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Grundstrukturen eines nachhaltigen Wohlfahrtsmodells und Implikationen für die Politik

Meyer, Bernd; Ahlert, Gerd; Zieschank, Roland; … - 2012

gesellschaftlicher Nachhaltigkeit zu unterkomplex sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde innerhalb des Forschungsvorhabens ein erweitertes … Eckpunkte zur Entwicklung eines nachhaltigen Wohlfahrtskonzeptes liefert, das im Rahmen der Umweltpolitik als politisches … nachhaltigen Umweltpolitik werden Forderungen zur Positionierung an die Politik in sechs Punkten abgeleitet. …

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Should we sustain? : and if so, sustain what? ; consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto G.; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

It has long been argued that the implementation of market-based environmental policy instruments such as environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the...

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Biodiversity and geography

Rauscher, Michael; Barbier, Edward - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...

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Concentration, separation, and dispersion : economic geography and the environment

Rauscher, Michael - 2009

The paper investigates the spatial patterns of industrial location and environmental pollution in a new-economic-geography model. Factors of production and their owners are mobile, but factor owners are not required to live in the region in which their factors are employed. Under laisser-faire,...

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Corruption and environmental policy : an alternative perspective

Lapatinas, Athanasios; Litina, Anastasia; Sartzetakis, … - 2011

We construct an overlapping generations model in which agents live through two periods; childhood and adulthood. Each agent makes choices only as an adult, based on her utility that depends on her own consumption and the human capital and environmental quality endowed to her offspring. Entering...

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A participatory approach to assess the effectiveness of responses to cope with flood risk

Ceccato, Lucia; Giannini, Valentina; Giupponi, Carlo - 2010

This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...

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A comparative study of selected Asian countries on carbon emissions with respect to different trade and climate changes mitigation policy scenarios

Truong, Truong Phuoc - 2010

Trade, economic development, and climate change issues are closely linked and this has significant implications for the design of climate change policies especially for developing countries. Developing countries regard the objective of economic development and growth as being as important as the...

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Environmental governance in Hungary : rural development policies and social learning during the implementation of EU agri-environmental policies ; a case study

Nemes, Gusztáv - 2010

The Rural Development Regulation (RDR) within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as an exemplary manifestation of the New Rural Development Paradigm, has achieved significant results. Nevertheless, it has increasingly become liable to institutional complexity and central control in an...

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Pollution, shadow economy and corruption : theory and evidence

Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - 2011

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...

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