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Optimal NGO financing of a resource management certification scheme
Fulton, Murray Evan; Vercammen, James Alfred - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 58 (2014) 4, pp. 605-626
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Building a Certification and Inspection Data Infrastructure to Promote Transparent Markets
Luciano, Joanne S.; Sayogo, Djoko; Ran, Weijia; DePaula, Nic - In: International Journal of Electronic Government Research … 13 (2017) 4, pp. 53-75
to govern product certification and inspection for promoting transparent markets and building consumer trust. The data … architecture is a proof-of-concept set of data standards called the Certification and Inspection Data Infrastructure Building Block … constitutes a trustworthy certification and inspection process? CIDIBB consists of three interrelated ontologies, focusing …
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Impacts of private sustainability certification on practices of tea production in Tamilnadu, India
Vermeulen, Walter J. V.; Dengerink, Just D. - In: International journal of business and globalisation : IJBG 17 (2016) 1, pp. 45-82
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Сертификационните схеми в хранителния сектор - инструмент на устойчиво производство (Certification scheme in food sector - instrument for sustainable production)...
Ivanova, Daniela; Vasileva, Elka; Tipova, Nina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
. Certification schemes are one of the most common policy instruments used for promoting sustainable production and consumption. A … total 90 producers in food sector were asked about motivation for certification, the challenges and outcomes of … certification. The survey provides information on existing certification schemes (system certification and products certification …
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Public, private and nonprofit regulation for environmental quality
Bottega, Lucie; Freitas, Jenny De - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2009
monopoly. The monopolist can voluntarily certify the quality of the product through an eco-label provided either by an NGO or a … for-proft private certifier (PC). The NGO and the PC may use advertisement to promote the label. We compare the NGO and PC …
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Towards a more appropriate method for determining the optimal scale of production units
Grosskopf, Martin P. - 2002
This paper asserts that beyond certain scale thresholds several factors contribute to diseconomies of scale for individual production units, particularly with regard to the costs of non-renewable resource consumption. Economic instruments such as environmental taxes may induce a shift towards...
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Targeting sustainable competitiveness in Croatia by implementation of "20 Keys" methodology
Dabic, Marina; Orac, Mario; Daim, Tugrul U. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-26
Throughout the current wave of regulatory reforms, several theoretical models have been proposed that call for the emergence of instruments of self-regulation under some form of state supervision as part of the demand to improve product development performances aligned with awareness of...
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Occupational safety and health programs in the Maquiladora industry
Velázquez, Luis; Munguía, Nora; Esquer, Javier; … - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 14 (2014) 2, pp. 163-175
Although traditionally the maquiladora industry had succeeded in strengthening the Mexican economic growth, this has been also criticized because their collateral effects not only on environment but also on working conditions of the maquiladora workers. This study has the purpose of deepening...
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The economic returns of circular economy practices
Antonioli, Davide; Ghisetti, Claudia; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2022
Assessing the economic consequences of sustainable production choices aimed at reducing environmental negative externalities is crucial for policy making, in light of the increasing interest and awareness experienced in the recent EU policy packages (Circular Economy package; European Green Deal...
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Adoption of Eco and Circular Economy-Innovation in Italy: exploring different firm profiles
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, Francesco; Pareglio, … - 2022
Applying clustering techniques, this paper identifies homogeneous groups of enterprises within the heterogeneous landscape of the italian manufacturing tissue. The algorithm will be fed with data from a survey on a cross-section of SMEs in 2019. The set of questions span from economic and...
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