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have contained some environmental provisions, ranging from a pledge to protect the environment to very extensive …
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The early focus by individual businesses on the reduction of their own carbon footprint is being superseded by a phase of building carbon-constrained business networks. Across these networks, businesses evaluate each others' footprints and conduct business accordingly. Dynamic carbon...
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. In the same period, tax revenues also increased sharply. Replacing existing taxes with the environment taxes called for … into the relationship of the existing taxes with the environment. The study of the relationship of the taxes with pollution …-based solutions so that economic activities in the transition to a green economy may change the way they impact the environment. …
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This paper discusses the policy uses, and limits, of three key concepts for defining 'environmentally adjusted' macro-economic indicators for a national economy. The first is change in the system boundary, an enlargement of the scope of national economic accounting to include natural assets;...
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Societal responsibility is a much discussed topic today. However, this concept has undergone several developments. Currently, it is based on the theory of "stakeholders". Nevertheless, this approach becomes complicated when we take a company's responsibility vis-à-vis nature into account. This...
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half of total energy consumption. Most of this is used for cooking and heating water in rural and semi-urban areas and by … the urban poor. There is a need to provide alternative renewable energy sources to enhance women's participation in, and … benefit from development. Household energy was the first energy sector that paid explicit attention to women and their energy …
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This paper reports on research empirically focused on the Brittany region in France, its agricultural sector and the impacts of agricultural activity on water quality. Our goal was to define and estimate indicators that illustrate the confrontation between environmental performance and economic...
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This paper proposes an analysis of environmental services produced in rural areas and their links with the notions of organised proximity and geographical proximity. Among the different concepts of environmental services, we use that suggested by service economics to focus on the forms of...
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relationship between economy and environment. The more that economic activity and development become uncoupled from physical … gains in energy efficiency, substitution, and technology have contributed to the gradual decoupling of throughput of natural … economic activity and the environment, and assesses the degree to which throughput has been (and can be) decoupled from …
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Changes in Swedish food consumption patterns during recent decades are studied, together with some possible future changes of importance for increasing resource efficiency. The increased consumption of meat and a more global food supply have contributed negatively. An increased interface with...
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