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Regional development policy aims to cope with the challenge of spatial disparities. It is based on a smart combination of various critical capital assets in a region which functionally and spatially interact and which yield synergetic economic opportunities and promising challenges for...
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Food systems have significant externalities that are not reflected in market prices. A first step to correct parts of … these externalities is to make them transparent through “true‐” or full‐cost accounting. Estimates of the external health … at market prices, that is, about 20 trillion US$ of externalities versus 9 trillion US$ of food value in the markets. The …
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In this paper, we study the reasons for extremely high difference in energy intensity of the Russian regions under different methodological approaches. We compare the most popular measures of state's energy efficiency policy in Russia with best world practices and investigate the factors of...
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of the marginal contributions for environments with externalities. The dummy property related to it is defined. We adapt …
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accommodate man in their approaches always as a variable that distorts and deteriorates the environment, we believe that a …, modifiable variable in that process. We thus consider the environmental problem in the broader framework of an integral ecology … responsibility of man within the framework of an ethics of sustainability. Man is called to do right in all orders. When he does not …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that higher average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for local residents with minimal education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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with the emergence of modern times. This concerns competitiveness, positioning in the tourism market, education and … analysed, as well as the levels and roles of specialisation in the removal of externalities. At the same time, the paper …
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Corporate social responsibility is a complex concept, where ecology is one of the key elements. From the point of view … of logistics, care for the environment and respect for non-renewable resources is a particularly important issue. The … operating in this sector, by definition cannot, therefore, be neutral with respect to the environment. They can, however …
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Urbanization, as such, is not perceived as a threat to the environment and development but it is unplanned urban sprawl … the fragile ecology of Himalayas has haphazardly grown during the last forty years which has resulted in disproportionate …
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