This article analyses the representation of selected countries (EU-27 and the five influential “forest states”) to international forest-related negotiations by national utilitarian vis-à-vis conservation-oriented ministerial bureaucracies. It is hypothesised that due to the bureaucracies'...

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to a massive trans-border threat while creating...

We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a...