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Natural resources and technology : on the mitigating effect of green tech
Wendler, Tobias; Töbelmann, Daniel; Günther, Jutta - 2021
Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether technology can lessen the problem of scarce natural resources. We focus on fossil and biomass materials as important resources for production and consumption. Utilizing a dynamic panel...
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Opportunities and benefits of local content requirement policy : case of Eastern Siberian oil and gas industry : 55th ERSA Congress
Semykina, Irina - 2015
and gas provinces of Russia. The analysis of key economic indices shows that the existing approach based on rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485259
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Uncovering Norway's regional disparities with respect to natural riches
Acar, Sevil; Karahasan, Burhan Can - 2013
a number of models that test the impact of employment, investment and value added in natural resource sectors on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544451
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A resource-rich neighbor is a misfortune : the spatial distribution of the resource curse in Brazil
Ishak, Phoebe W.; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2020
We study the spatial distribution of the effect of oil and gas revenues on Brazilian municipalities, using variations in the international prices of oil and gas to establish causality. Oil and gas revenues increase economic activity, measured by night-time light emissions, in oil-producing...
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[Implications of an increase in domestic prices of gas in Russia, an application of the regional economic model SUSTRUS]
Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2012
. Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and currently produces around 550 billion cubic meters of gas each year … industrial producers. The pricing of natural gas is currently a hot topic in Russia, as the Russian government proposes to … main data sources for the model are the public databases of Rosstat and the micro-level household data from the Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522021
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Towards territorial sustainability systems : a step forward
Barrutia, José M.; Echebarria, Carmen; Hartmann, Patrick; … - 2015
Regional research has focused on the innovation-competitiveness-growth chain, which is implicit in Territorial Innovation Systems. This literature has neglected or subordinated social and ecological regional conditions. We see this study as a first step towards more systematic research on what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477168
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Stepping up to the mark? : firms' export activity and environmental innovation in 14 European countries
Hanley, Aoife; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2019
We investigate how a firm's export activity and country idiosyncrasies determine the firm's adoption of environmental innovation (EI) as well as the firm's decision to extend its number of EI typologies. To this end, we append two waves of the Community Innovation Survey, differentiate our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314720
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Sustainable economic development and growth : roles played by agglomeration economies on regional policy
Nakamura, Daisuke - 2010
The evaluation of economic development level is commonly measured by the growth rate of GDP. However, this single-dimensional measurement may cause potential issue to investigate sustainable economic development and growth model. An alternative framework is introduced to economic development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619679
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Emission targets, comparative advantage and trade : a new reading of David Ricardo
Kolev, Galina V. - 2020 - This version: March 1, 2020
The paper represents a new reading of the traditional Ricardian theory of comparative advantages to tackle current challenges of environmental and climate policy. In the style of David Ricardo, it demonstrates that international trade is a positive-sum game in a twogoods, two-countries world...
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Biodiversity in the Sustainable Development Goals
Dinculescu, Corina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 130-138). 2023
Biodiversity is influenced by the process of economic development, between the two there is a causal relationship - when development does not respect the environment, biodiversity experiences negative transformations. The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, which derives from the 2030 Agenda for...
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