Die Motorisierung der Weltbevölkerung und das Verkehrsaufkommen werden zukünftig weiter zunehmen. Die zentralen Triebkräfte hinter diesen Entwicklungen werden das immense Bevölkerungswachstum und die rasant steigenden Einkommen in zahlreichen Regionen der Welt sein. Eine sehr dynamische...

This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....

This paper asserts that beyond certain scale thresholds several factors contribute to diseconomies of scale for individual production units, particularly with regard to the costs of non-renewable resource consumption. Economic instruments such as environmental taxes may induce a shift towards...