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societies changes with industrial development. I find that as energy use increases, governments tend to get larger and the … more hierarchical as energy use grows. This result is inconsistent with the neoclassical theory that individual self …
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study of the process of agencification in the energy and banking sector is insightful in the light of these expectations …. The incremental nature of institutional change in energy exemplifies the usual path of agencification, which is conducive …
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Starting from the crisis on the real economy in 2008 it has been developed an intense discussion, supported by a number of declarations on the global scale, about the need for changes in the economy. A huge impact on this state of affairs was the analysis of the causes and effects of the...
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Environmental impact assessment is currently the major Brazilian institution that routinely seeks community input about infrastructure projects. It is criticized both by activists who think it permits projects it should not and by project proponents who think that it is too slow and blocks...
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-based manufacturing originate from. Wood-based energy production, manufacture of wooden containers and containers of paper and paperboard … particular importance in the current calamity situation in German forests. Energy is also an important sector of critical …. In Germany, about 0.9 million households use wood as the primary energy carrier. In terms of quantity, they are the most …
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interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a large public utility in Germany, we develop an energy savings application for … set themselves energy consumption targets. The roll-out of the app is promoted by a mass-marketing campaign and large … financial incentives. Results document low demand for the energy app in the general population and a tightly estimated null …
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interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a large public utility in Germany, we develop an energy savings application for … set themselves energy consumption targets. The roll-out of the app is promoted by a mass-marketing campaign and large … financial incentives. Results document low demand for the energy app in the general population and a tightly estimated null …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267472
interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a large public utility in Germany, we develop an energy savings application for … set themselves energy consumption targets. The roll-out of the app is promoted by a mass-marketing campaign and large … financial incentives. Results document low demand for the energy app in the general population and a tightly estimated null …
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In the distant future, aliens come to Earth. They find a planet devoid of life. Looking closer, the aliens see that life on Earth was once abundant, but was wiped out by a mass extinction. Curiously, this event was driven not by geological disaster, but by one of the extinct species itself. In...
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run a lab experiment which mimics an energy consumption choice and randomizes the timing of when consumption costs are …
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