In the past environmental management practices have been based on disparate analysis of the impacts of pollutants on selected components of ecosystems. However, holistic analysis of emission reduction strategies is necessary to justify that actions taken to protect the environment would not...

Desde 2004 es Director de la Federación de Industrias del Estado de São Paulo (Fiesp). Fue Director Adjunto del Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales y Comercio Exterior y, desde 2008, ocupa el cargo de Director Titular del Departamento de Infraestructura. Participa activamente en las...

Starting form the accounting status as a social and institutional practice and the economic role of financial reporting, the paper addresses the issue of social and environmental accounting and reporting regulation.We propose an analysis of the main rep

Scientists from all over the world recognize that energy saving in households is currently very relevant topic. Energy resources are very important factor for each country's economic vitality. Not only the country's replenishment in energy resources is important, but also the reduction of energy...

.Carbon markets emerged as a consequence of efforts carried out by the United Nations in its efforts aimed at combating the effects of climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change through the Kyoto Protocol (KP) is a key part of this effort as it encouraged the...

Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching...

Popper’s (1967) ’piecemeal social change’ is an approach manifesting itself in science as critical and emancipatory (C&E) research. It is concerned with incrementally removing manifested inequalities to achieve a ’better’ world. Although design science research in information systems...

Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching...

This paper investigates the effect of shadow price regarding weak sustainability indicators based on the genuine savings indicator. We analyse the forest resources considering positive externalities of natural capital, as the approximation from market rent alone would under-estimate the true...

This paper addresses environment management in East Asia. We first set out to examine whether the latecomer’s economies in East Asia enjoy technological spillover effects or suffer pollution haven damages in their environmental pollution management, in other words, which of latecomer’s...