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Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run:Lessons from Germany

Blum, Matthias; McLaughlin, Eoin; Hanley, Nick - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2014

For many years, the World Bank has reported estimates of the degree of sustainability of the world’s economies using a … measure of adjusted net savings. We construct long-run sustainability indicators for Germany over the period 1850-2000 to test … find that German sustainability indicators are positive for the most part, although they are negative during and after the …

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Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Sustainability in Eastern Anhui Province, China

Zhang, Jian; Yang, Guishan; Pu, Lijie; Peng, Buzhuo - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 8398-8414

that in 2012, the comprehensive development in the study region had a general status in terms of sustainability. The …. During the period from 1975–1998, the study region’s comprehensive development presented a trend of general sustainability …. In the period from 1998–2012, the region experienced a trend of very strong sustainability in its development. These …

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A Scale-Explicit Framework for Conceptualizing the Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Land Use Changes

Hale, Iago Lowe; Wollheim, Wilfred M.; Smith, Richard G.; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 8432-8451

Demand for locally-produced food is growing in areas outside traditionally dominant agricultural regions due to concerns over food safety, quality, and sovereignty; rural livelihoods; and environmental integrity. Strategies for meeting this demand rely upon agricultural land use change, in...

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O FUTURO DA BIOTECNOGIA: SALVAÇÃO OU PERDIÇÃO?

Vieira, Adriana Carvalho Pinto; Buainain, Antonio Marcio; … - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008

demand. In this way, the modern biotechnology becomes an important tool by allowing the development of new organisms starting … Brazilian agriculture, those progresses should be based on the sustainability, because, in the current days there is a great …

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Optimized Environmental Test Sequences to Ensure the Sustainability and Reliability of Marine Weapons

Yang, Jung Ho; Kim, Yong Soo - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 8661-8678

In recent years, there has been an increase in the types of marine weapons used in response to diverse hostile threats. However, because marine weapons are only tested under a single set of environmental conditions, failures due to different environmental stresses have been difficult to detect....

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Evolving Business Excellence Framework for Organization agility

Dubey, Manoj - Indian Institute of Foreign Trade - 2014

An excellent organization demands agility and versatility, associated with change, innovation and coupled with robustness and resilience, implying stability, sustainable advantage and capabilities that may evolve over time. In the past decade, most companies adopted restructuring and...

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Welfare Assessment of SPS Standards: An Empirical Study of Indo-US Mango Trade Dispute

Rastogi, Siddhartha.K.Rastogi - Indian Institute of Foreign Trade - 2011

As trade quotas have been eliminated under GATT and tariffs have been rationalized under WTO; the focal point of disputes and negotiations in international trade has shifted to non-tariff barriers (NTBs), particularly Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) standards. However, in the absence of any...

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Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility

Renneboog, Luc; Liang, H.; Marquis, C.; Li Sun, Sunny - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological … predictor of CSR and sustainability. …

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On the brink? Intra-euro area imbalances and the sustainability of foreign debt

Körner, Finn Marten; Zemanek, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschafltiche Fakultät, Universität Leipzig - 2012

European financial integration and the introduction of the euro might have contributed to the development of imbalances …

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How risky is the German pension system? The volatility of the internal rates of return

Heidler, Matthias; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und … - 2005

In this paper we analyze exemplarily the volatility of the internal rates of return of the German pension system over the life-cycle of an individual born in 1957. The outcome is compared to an alternative defined-contribution or defined-benefit policy. Based on the actual data, our resultsshow...

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