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Urban agenda and urban sustainability strategies : taking stock of policy implementation and policy discussion
Barnebeck, Stephanie; Kalff, Yannick - 2015
Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341240
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Towards an operational measurement of socio-ecological performance
Kettner, Claudia; Köppl, Angela; Stagl, Sigrid - 2014
Questioning GDP as dominant indicator for economic performance has become commonplace. For economists economic policy always aims for a broader array of goals (like income, employment, price stability, trade balance) alongside income, with income being the priority objective. The Stiglitz-Sen-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411023
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Towards an operational measurement of socio-ecological performance
Kettner, Claudia; Köppl, Angela; Stagl, Sigrid - WWWforEurope - 2014
Questioning GDP as dominant indicator for economic performance has become commonplace. For economists economic policy always aims for a broader array of goals (like income, employment, price stability, trade balance) alongside income, with income being the priority objective. The Stiglitz-Sen-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928071
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Achieving absolute decoupling? Comparing biophysical scenarios and macro-economic modelling results
Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Fischer-Kowalski, Marina - 2015
Most economic models struggle to incorporate biophysical relationships between materials, energy and emissions, in order to appropriately deal with biophysical constraints of supply (and possibly also demand). After the incorporation of biophysical constraints, some functions produced surprising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411059
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Achieving absolute decoupling? : comparing biophysical scenarios and macro-economic modelling results
Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Fischer-Kowalski, Marina - 2015
Most economic models struggle to incorporate biophysical relationships between materials, energy and emissions, in order to appropriately deal with biophysical constraints of supply (and possibly also demand). After the incorporation of biophysical constraints, some functions produced surprising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337041
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Achieving absolute decoupling? Comparing biophysical scenarios and macro-economic modelling results
Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Fischer-Kowalski, Marina - WWWforEurope - 2015
Most economic models struggle to incorporate biophysical relationships between materials, energy and emissions, in order to appropriately deal with biophysical constraints of supply (and possibly also demand). After the incorporation of biophysical constraints, some functions produced surprising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185237
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Urban Agenda and Urban Sustainability Strategies. Taking Stock of Policy Implementation and Policy Discussion
Barnebeck, Stephanie; Kalff, Yannick - 2015
Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental poli-tics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411074
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Regional perspectives and distributional effects of European regional policies
Bonfiglio, Andrea; Esposti, Roberto; Pagliacci, Francesco; … - 2014
A major objective of this study is to analyse the evolutionary patterns of regional linkages and disparities across the EU space, especially those related to rural and peripheral/remote regions. In particular, this report assesses the economy-wide effects, in terms of GDP and employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426507
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What innovation policies for ecological transition? : powering the green innovation machine
Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014
In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336729
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Foundations for an ecological macroeconomics : literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter A.; Kratena, Kurt; … - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426487