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Sauberes Wasser: Milleniumsziel kaum zu schaffen: Privatisierungsdebatte entspannt sich

Jekel, Martin; Meran, Georg; Remy, Christian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 12/13, pp. 143-148

Die Vereinten Nationen haben das Jahr 2008 zum Internationalen Jahr der Sanitärversorgung ausgerufen. Der Weltwassertag am 22. März erhält damit eine besondere Bedeutung - nicht zuletzt, weil eines der zentralen Millenniumsziele der Vereinten Nationen verfehlt zu werden droht. Das Ziel, die...

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Ist die EU-Agrarpolitik ihr Geld wert?

Kirschke, Dieter; Koester, Ulrich; Häger, Astrid - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 4, pp. 288-293

Der Erfolg einer Politik wird häufig mit dem Umfang der eingesetzten Finanzmittel gleichgesetzt. Die Autoren dieses Beitrag halten eine solche Einschätzung für verfehlt. Vielmehr sollten die Kosten dem Nutzen gegenübergestellt und einzelne Instrumente nicht mit unterschiedlichen Zielen...

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Sustainable development in the context of hard water treatment

Klosok-Bazan, Iwona; Witsanko-Sniezek, Aneta - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1135-1145

The objective of this paper was determination and measurement of the effect on the environment that application of central softening of water from the Grotowice intake can have. In order to carry out the said analyses, two levels of water softening were considered, i.e. up to hardness at the...

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The importance of modernizations in realization of sustainable development principles: A case study of the Heating Plant "Piast" in Bieru´n, Poland

Szweda, Anna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 1, pp. 375-386

The issue of environment protection has gained in importance recently in connection with progressive environmental decay, which is caused by a steady economic development and exploitative natural resource management. Energetics is one of the industries, which have a damaging influence on the...

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Is it worth being good? The efficiency and risk of socially responsible investing in light of various empirical studies

Jedynak, Tomasz - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 13 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14

The paper discusses the issue of the effects of using SRI strategies on performance and risk of investment portfolios. During the research procedure, a number of goals were executed which is reflected by the article's structure. In the first place, potential directions of the effects of using...

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An Analysis of the "Bio" / "Eco" Products Market, Referring to the EU and Romania

Bostan, Ionel - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 1, pp. 33-44

The EU and Canada represent the largest market in the world for the sale of ecological products attracting exports from many third countries and recording a total sale of 95% of the worldwide total market. The European market for ecological products – also known as “bio” / “eco” – in...

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An Application of Qualitative Risk Analysis as a Tool Adopted by Public Organizations for Evaluating "Green Projects"

Lanfranchi, Maurizio; Giannetto, Carlo; De Pascale, Angelina - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 40, pp. 872-890

This paper intends to explore the application of Qualitative Risk Analysis in evaluating the risk level associated with several public projects based on urban and peri-urban agriculture as a model of sustainable development of a territory. Therefore, urban agriculture is seen as an experimental...

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Keine erhöhte Volatilität auf Agrarmärkten durch Optionshandel

Prehn, Sören; Glauben, Thomas; Dannemann, Tebbe; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 4, pp. 280-283

of price risks, e.g. against falling prices, and are an indispensable risk management instrument for farmers and grain …

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Agricultural cooperatives

Tortia, Ermanno; Valentinov, Vladislav; Iliopoulos, … - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 2 (2013) 1, pp. 23-36

The economic nature of agricultural cooperatives is explained by means of a logical continuation of the organizational economics rationale for family farms. The traditional explanations of the importance of family farms is discussed, and embedded in a broader framework which considers their...

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Benchmarking technical efficiency of rice farms in Ghana: An empirical application of alternative production frontier approaches

Coffie, Rebecca Owusu - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 125-154

still low. It is therefore important to assess the efficiency of farmers and identify sources of inefficiency to develop … farmers in Ghana.Design/Research methods: Bias-corrected data envelopment and restricted single-stage stochastic frontier … models are employed to examine the technical efficiency of farmers and its determinants. The data for empirical application …

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