The concept of an environmental management system evolved in the early nineties. An environmental management system exists to help organizations minimize how their operations (processes etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land), comply with...

CWe consider the factor payment effects of a transition from open access to restricted access in the resource sector in the long-run, i.e., when both labor and capital are mobile between sectors. We show that the transition benefits (harms) the factor that is initially used more (less)...

We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...

We examine the productivity and profitability changes in the US electric generating plants during the SO2 trading regime. Input distance function is used to compute the cumulative Malmquist productivity and Fisher productivity indexes. By exploiting the duality between cost and input distance...

This paper examines the pollution control policies applied in China¡¯s paper industry during the period of economic reform from 1982 to 1992. The paper industry is the source of ten percent of China¡¯s industrial wastewater emissions and one-fourth of its chemical oxygen demand. It is the...

Este estudo pretende apresentar um novo modelo de GC estratégico em Instituições de Ensino Superior - IES, partindo da premissa da ausência de interação entre o pensamento estratégico nessas instituições e a GC de seus colaboradores. O modelo pode ajudar na resolução de problema...

This document examines the successes and failures of the present Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna (CITES) and analyses its defects. Major changes are needed in the structure of the Treaty to overcome its perceived shortcomings. A Vision for a new treaty is...

This article describes and explains a sustainability law practicum class that is now taught in only two law schools, but which has considerable teaching and practical value. It also explains how this class is consistent with, and furthers, the growing demand for experiential, skills-based legal...

Property theory has not kept pace with the growth of empirical and historical information on property systems. This paper, prepared for a Lincoln Institute conference on "The Evolution of Property Systems and Rights Related to Land and Natural Resources": (a) introduces conventional theories of...

Recently attention has focused on collective ownership as a potentially better institution for governing common pool resources in some circumstances than either private or State ownership. Previous case studies have examined the structure and functioning of successful and long-enduring...