Structural change in advanced industrialized countries has followed a very ambivalent course, with the resulting reductions in environmental stress in one area often being cancelled out by increases in another. What role has been played in this to date by industrial and economic policy? What...

Effizienter Klimaschutz hängt von politischen Einflussfaktoren ab, deren Bedeutung in diesem Beitrag diskutiert wird. Ausgegangen wird von der These, dass anspruchsvoller Klimaschutz nicht an Technologien oder Kosten scheitern muss; es ist die politische Umsetzung, die erheblichen Restriktionen...

The subject of this paper is the importance of the diffusion of environmental innovations between countries for the global development of environmental policy. Empirical observation has shown that national environmental initiatives are often rapidly adopted by other countries; thus, these...