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Green Economy: great expectation or big illusion?

Musu, Ignazio - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010

Simple growth accounting shows that the negative scale effect of economic growth on the environment can be compensated by a composition effect, increasing the weight of less polluting productions, and by a technical progress favorable to the environment, in order to make possible a sustainable...

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Building Sustainable Historic Centres A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban Projects

Rabinovich, Adriana; Catenazzi, Andrea - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

historic centres, their relations with the city and their development in terms of sustainability. The goal of our contribution …

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Using 'Inclusive Wealth' to Measure and Model Sustainable Development in Australia: A working example

Harris, Michael; Pearson, Leonie J. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2004

Australia in 1992 adopted the National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development to ensure all future development occurs in a 'sustainable' manner. Measurement of the nation's sustainable development is currently conducted through the OECD Environmental Performance Review and various...

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Essays in Sustainable Development

Gariup, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Technical guidelines for economic valuation of inland small-scale fisheries in developing countries

Chiwaula, L.; Witt, R.; BÎ˜nÎ˜, C; Ngoma, P.; Turpie, J. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …

These ôTechnical Guidelines for Economic Valuation of Inland Small-scale Fisheries in Developing Countriesö are one of the outputs of the project on ôFood security and poverty alleviation through improved valuation and governance of river fisheries in Africaö. The guidelines draw upon...

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Natural Resource Curse: Special Experience Of The Persian Gulf States

Eghbalnia, Yeganeh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

pattern based on good performance in health and education variables in Persian Gulf countries but the sustainability of this …

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Achieving ecological sustainability with the introduction of a 'Sustainability Guarantee'

Lawn, Philip - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 28 (2007) 1, pp. 111-133

potential employment implications of moving towards ecological sustainability (Lawn, 2004b). To complement the Job Guarantee, a … Sustainability Guarantee is put forward and explained. While the Sustainability Guarantee is nothing intrinsically new in the sense … that it involves a number of policy initiatives already outlined by ecological economists, I believe the Sustainability …

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Impact assessment of energy-related policy instruments on climate change and security of energy supply

Barreto, Leonardo; Turton, Hal - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 27 (2007) 1, pp. 15-41

-eq) tax, on sustainability indicators in the areas of climate change and security of energy supply, two important dimensions …

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Measuring Greece's progress towards energy sustainability

Koroneos, C.; Nanaki, E. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 27 (2007) 1, pp. 77-101

Energy is essential to economic and social development and improved quality of life. The European Union (EU) constitutes one of the world's largest energy consumers. The EU members include â€“ among others â€“ Germany and Greece, two countries with large disparities/differences in...

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Energy problem metamorphosis or difficult transformation to sustainable development (with special emphasis on the case of Germany)

Nikolajew, Vadim - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 17 (2002) 4, pp. 327-340

projected globally, for a new boost in sustainability effort is needed. It turns out that the present "business-as-usual" basis …

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