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Evaluation of Environmental Performance of Companies

Tóth, Gergely - In: Society and Economy 25 (2003) December, pp. 383-402

The paper portrays environmental performance evaluation as a novel, innovative, applicable method or group of methods, which is not free of difficulties, but ultimately leads to the right direction. Apart from the analytical explanation and evaluation of 11 EPE methods, the article systematises...

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Sustainable or non-sustainable future?

Kuna, Zbyněk - In: Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionales 3 (2000) 2, pp. 5-11

Author mentions global problems of the world. Sustainable development and natural resources in relations to world population problem and food problem. He gives main responsibility for the future development to the developed countries and to the international institutions. Pieces of knowledge...

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE MICRO FINANCE PRACTICES IN TURKEY

GUR, Betül - In: Istanbul Commerce University Journal of Social Sciences 21 (2012) 1, pp. 87-106

In this study, micro financing activities carried out by the non-governmental organization in the frame of corporate social responsibility are discussed and the effects of these on sustainable development are looked into. In this aspect this study is a first. To fulfill this aim,...

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The regional soul of sustainability

Pinelli, Michele - Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013

) the role of entrepreneurs in the implementation of sustainability is increasingly important and not just complementary to … development. There is emerging evidence that sustainability is becoming profitable for firms as a result of a dynamics involving …-born profitability is the incentive which will make firms play their important part in the implementation of sustainability. Increased …

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Green Growth, Resources and Resilience Environmental Sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

This report—Green Growth, Resources, and Resilience—describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and uncertainty. The report provides new...

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Environmentally Sustainable Development in the People'?s Republic of China: Visions for the Future and the Role of the Asian Development Bank

Zhang, Qingfeng - Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

The rapid pace of growth, the sectoral structure of the economy, the sources of energy used, and increased urbanization are four large-scale drivers behind the complex environmental agenda of the People’s Republic of China. To improve the quality of the ambient environment, the recently...

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Potential Impact of Emission Trading Schemes on the Australian National Electricity Market

Liebman, Ariel; Zhou, Xun; Dong, Zhao Yang; James, Geoff - Energy Economics and Management Group, School of Economics - 2008

Power industry worldwide has been identified as a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, many countries have started the implementation of emission trading schemes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by power stations. The Australian government aims to implement an...

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Australian electricity market power analysis under potential emission trading scheme

Liebman, Ariel; Zhou, Xun; Dong, Zhao Yang; James, Geoff - Energy Economics and Management Group, School of Economics - 2009

Existence of market power in electricity markets has been revealed by extensive studies, however, the understanding of how environmental policies, e.g. emission trading scheme, impacts on the change of market power of generation companies (GENCOs) is at the inchoate stage. This paper, targeted...

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EL TEMA AMBIENTAL: UNA VISIÓN GENERAL SOBRE SU DESARROLLO

Duban F. Peña B. - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN (2011)

El tema ambiental en la teoría económica no cobra importancia sino hasta después de la década de los sesenta. En principio, la teoría clásica centró su preocupación en el problema del crecimiento e hizo posible, a través del análisis marginal, asignar al mercado la función de ser un...

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NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES – THE GATEWAY TOWARDS A SOLAR ERA

Constantin, Alexandra Mihaela - In: CES Working Papers 3(1) (2011) March, pp. 22-30

The end of the 20th century was preserving and handing down the concept of economic growth as the main goal of most of the governments and economic advisers, even if the world was integrating in a mondialist system. This economic model lasted for a long time, but it will not survive the 21st...

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