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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...
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Half of the world's population — 3 billion people — lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In …
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Although “cap and trade” programs for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are often discussed as a viable program …
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The paper provides an introduction to energy, respective resource, use within the framework of endogenous growth models. We provide an overview of different modeling approaches as well as intuition with respect to the results obtained. We consider the source problem, i.e., the supply of energy,...
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The circular economy (CE) has recently stimulated debates on sustainable consumption and production; Its regenerative systems minimise the environmental impact as practitioner reduce their externalities, including; waste, emissions, and energy leakages through the use and reuse of resources....
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-effective manner. Without radical changes to the region's energy mix, oil consumption will double, natural gas consumption will triple … by 2035 which is more than the 22 billion tons experts see as the maximum sustainable emissions for the whole world. To …
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The sudden and unexpected development of shale gas has the potential to accelerate or hinder the transition to … sustainability, depending on how it is handled. Sustainable development is a useful evaluative framework for shale gas development … answers to, the question of whether, or how, shale gas production can help accelerate the transition to sustainability …
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their clients in a world with a growing economy and population in some places, widespread poverty in others, and growing … environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. And the ABA, including the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources …
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living standards, rapid urbanisation and an expanding industrial sector. As a result, the country's greenhouse gas emissions …
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While attention to the social and environmental impacts of international business (IB) is not new, the past years have seen renewed interest due to pressing global problems such as climate change and poverty. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are regarded as playing a specific role given their...
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