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Creating Sustainable Photovoltaics for Smart Cities
Brenner, Werner; Adamovic, Nadja - 2019
Research on solar energy systems and materials has yielded promising opportunities for sustainable energy solutions, which do not only consider environmental issues but also allow aesthetic design possibilities. New requirements regarding the energy efficiency performance of buildings gave the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141525
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How people perceive immigrants' role in their country's life: a comparative study of Estonia and Russia
PAAS, TIIU; Demidova, Olga - 2013
In addition to traditional growth models, 3T (Technology, Talent, Tolerance) approach, initially proposed by Richard Florida, has gained popularity since the beginning of the 21st century in explaining determinants of economic growth and development. This approach emphasizes the important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397406
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Findings of an International Research on the Future of Marketing Communication
Rekettye, Gábor Jr.; Rekettye, Gábor - 2016
The objective of the research was to map the most important global megatrends affecting the business and marketing environment and to analyze and understand how the changed environment will affect the practice and performance of marketing communication in the next decade. For identifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920329
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The Influence of Modern Business Environment on Management Changes
Buntak, Krešimir; Martinčević, Ivana; Mutavdžija, Maja - 2017
The business environment that is characterized by the dynamics of change has had a significant impact in the development of scientific thinking in the field of management from the beginning of the nineteenth century until today. In the 1950s, modern theories and management concepts were...
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Integrated climate modelling at the Kiel Institute for World Economics: The DART Model and its applications
Deke, Oliver; Peterson, Sonja - 2003
The aim of this paper is to give an overview over the DART model and its applications. The main focus is on the implementation of climate impacts into DART in the course of coupling DART to the ocean-atmosphere model and on the associated empirical problems. The basic DART model and some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313942
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US participation, permit allocation, and hot air supply
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - 2002
After Bonn and Marrakech it is likely that emission trading will be realized in the near future. Major influences on the permit market are the institutional details, the participation structure and the treatment of hot air. Different scenarios do not only differ in their implications for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314083
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Integrating biofuels into the DART model: Analysing the effects of the EU 10% biofuel target
Kretschmer, Bettina; Peterson, Sonja; Ignaciuk, Adriana M. - 2010
Biofuels and other forms of bioenergy have received increased attention in recent times: They have partly been acclaimed as an instrument to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming but have been increasingly come under attack for their potential to contribute...
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Subsistence and semi subsistence agriculture in Romania
Vlad, Mihaela Cristina - 2014
The paper aims to analyze the main question that arises in the context of current agricultural policies: are households farms really? Viewed from the perspective of sustainable development of rural areas, the answer becomes very important, especially given that the actual shortcomings rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288309
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A Political Economy Model of Regulation Explained Through Fuzzy Logics
Oliveira, Elizabeth Real; e Silva, Manuela Castro - 2004
: Environmental Regulation, Environmental Economics, Fuzzy Logics, Models, Pollution Control, Sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318821
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Innovation systems and regional clustering: the diffusion of knowledge for sustainability issues
Santos, Rita; Leal, Walter; Mirra, Evando - 2010
The innovation systems perspective is primarily concerned with the knowledge flow and diffusion and its positive impact … of stimulating economic growth. In innovation systems observed at the regional level there is a tendency of … this paper the relation between innovation and knowledge is illustrated by the high-technology cluster of Campinas. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332762