Seitdem ein Grundsatz zur Daseinsvorsorge im Raumordnungsgesetz (ROG) aufgenommen wurde und die Leitbilder und Handlungsstrategien für die Raumentwicklung ein konkretes Leitbild zur Sicherung der Daseinsvorsorge vorgeben, haben Aktivitäten der Regionalplanung zur Sicherung der Daseinsvorsorge...

This article provides a review of economic studies analyzing the use of multiple policies - a socalled policy mix - to cope with single pollution problems. To guide and structure the review, an analytical framework is developed and applied. The framework integrates transaction costs into the...

With the share of renewable energies within the electricity sector rising, improving their market (i.e. inclusion in the allocative processes of the electricity market) and system integration (i.e. enhanced responsibility for grid stability) is of increasing importance. To transform the energy...

With the expansion of renewable energy sources (RES) in countries all over the world, policy design to address the negative impacts of RES plants on their local and regional environment gains in importance. We analyse whether policy design should be spatially-differentiated or uniform when...

We revisit optimal investment in energy-efficiency, presenting a decision framework built around the agent's wealth and wealth dynamic. An investment rule in the form of a trigger is derived such that the agent invests the first time the energy-carrier price crosses this threshold from below....