"This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the green economy, using a strongly interdisciplinary approach based on natural resource management rather than treating it as a sub-set of economics. Examples of real-world case studies are used to illustrate how sustainable development...

This paper investigates the effect of institutional quality on sustainable development.Institutional quality is assumed to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in physical and natural capital. Since these two types of...

Der Begriff der nachhaltigen Entwicklung hat in der umwelt- und ressourcenökonomischen Literatur einen beispiellosen Siegeszug erlebt. Zwei Aspekte sind besonders augenfällig: Erstens ist eine bemerkenswerte Heterogenität hinsicht¤lich der inhaltlichen Auslegungen dieses Begriffes zu...