Water quality markets: institutional design and performance -- Market-like water quality trading: why it matters and how to make it happen -- Buying water for the environment -- Auctions of water rights -- The economic effects of using property taxes in lieu of direct user fees to pay for water...

pt. 1. Foundations for understanding the trade of natural resources and its implication for ecosystem services -- pt. 2. Ecosystem impacts of global flows of virtual land, water and sea in the physical economy -- pt. 3. Accounting tools for global ecosystem services -- pt. 4. Instruments for...

Die jährlichen Berichte "Zur Lage der Welt" des renommierten World Watch Institute (Washington, D.C.) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und Germanwatch erscheinen seit 2004 zu einem jeweils spezifischen Oberthema (zuletzt 2011: Welternährung mit Schwerpunkt Afrika, ID-A 27/11)....

Renewable energy promotes the sustainable development of the environmental protection industry (EPI) and the economy. Meanwhile, the EPI provides various technologies and services for renewable energy, which is an important guarantee for the renewable energy market. This paper combines the DY...