What is the nexus between sustainability and openness? This study employs econometric methods to estimate a neoclassical growth model, considering brown and green growth as two pillars of sustainability, in ten oil-exporting countries during 1990-2012. Based on the results, the nexus is...

Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of agricultural crops may expand toward the north,...

We investigate environmental aspects of agriculture from a welfare economic perspective and show that both positive and negative effects exhibit the character of undepletable externalities. To internalise these externalities while taking equity concerns into account, we propose compensation of...

The paper examines the possibility of a water market in Brazil. The US market, probably the oldest and most well-documented one, is initially analyzed. In the American West, over the past 140 years the so-called "water rights" can be sold or rented. However, mainly due to high transaction costs,...

Der Environmental Performance Index (EPI) betrachtet die ökologische Gesamtleistung eines Landes, der Environmental Democracy Index (EDI) bildet die demokratischen Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten im Umweltbereich ab. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass, entgegen der allgemeinen Vermutung, nur ein geringer...

There are severe issues of public open space (POS) underinvestment and overexploitation. However, few studies have been conducted on the property rights structure and its impacts on rural commons governance, specifically concerning local neighbourhood residential POS quality and sustainability....

The paper proposes a comparative analysis of three different scenarios for the efficient use of the former Bucharest City Hall building (BCHb) for business purpose. All three scenarios are related to the area of services, namely real estate, retail, cultural services and hotel services. In order...

The purpose of this paper is to put into an appropriate theoretical frame the rural development issues in enlarging Europe and to analyse the rural development perspectives in the European Union (EU) accession countries. Based on comparisons of developments in the Common Agricultural Policy...

Am 1. August 2008 fusionierten 29 sächsische Landkreise und kreisfreie Städte zu 13 neuen Verwaltungen. Gut ein Jahr zuvor reformierte das Nachbarland Sachsen-Anhalt seine Kreisstruktur. Zu den Geburtstagen will vielerorts allerdings nur wenig Feierlaune aufkommen. Auch gut ein Jahrzehnt nach...