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The qualitative dimension of the service companies’ activities also refers totheir impact over the environment. This aspect is meant to contribute to a sustainableeconomic growth, based on high economic performances, but also on obeying theenvironment protection and preservation requirements....
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Corporations, like the rest of us, must comply with environmental and other laws or suffer the consequences. Unfortunately, these consequences can pale in comparison to the gains to be made from non-compliance. Law-and-economics scholarship recognizes this and, by treating many laws as mere...
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the potential for consideration of stakeholder interests and more comprehensive systems thinking. While expanding the … broadening of the consideration of stakeholder interests will almost certainly allow for more comprehensive long-term planning …, greater attention to environmental and other stakeholder concerns, and the potential for transformational policy choices. The …
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The need for a global agreement to the problem of tropical deforestation has led to the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) scheme, which proposes that the developed countries pay developing countries for CO<sub>2</sub> emissions saved through avoided deforestation and forest...
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Sustainable Development is, at this point, one of the most often used expression in everything regarding the environmental protection and the development of the human society. The Environmental European legislation and the legislations of the member countries consider it as the only solution for...
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The bioeconomy-specific paradigm has changed the perception of economic growth in the sense that the growth limits do not matter, but new growth opportunities. These are focused on: knowledge, investment in research, innovation and technological performance, which give meaning to the concept of...
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The bioeconomy-specific paradigm has changed the perception of economic growth in the sense that the growth limits do not matter, but new growth opportunities. These are focused on: knowledge, investment in research, innovation and technological performance, which give meaning to the concept of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888200
This study uses the directional output distance function, a multi-output economic production frontier model, to value the physical tradeoffs between agricultural production and wetland condition in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region Nanticoke River watershed. We combine detailed ecological indicator...
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Environmental information disclosure strategies, which involve corporate attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution and emissions, can become a basis for a new wave of environmental protection policy that follows and has the potential to complement traditional command and...
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We examine the intertemporal effect of environmental performance on financial performance and propose a method to assess the environmental performance in a fuller manner based on the weighting various pollutants according to their dangerousness to environment. Using our improved measures of...
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