One reason carbon prices are difficult to implement is that they might imply high additional costs on poor and vulnerable households. In response, studies often highlight that recycling revenues through cash transfers can render carbon pricing reforms progressive. This neglects that existing...

One reason carbon prices are difficult to implement is that they might imply high additional costs on poor and vulnerable households. In response, studies often highlight that recycling revenues through cash transfers can render carbon pricing reforms progressive. This neglects that existing...

Im Juli 2021 wurde der Westen Deutschlands von verheerenden Sturzfluten heimgesucht, die eine Vielzahl an Todesopfern gefordert haben. Neben den menschlichen Tragödien gab es wirtschaftliche Schäden in Milliardenhöhe. Häuser wurden unbewohnbar, ökonomische Existenzen von Privathaushalten...

Durch das Inkrafttreten des Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetzes im November 2019 ist es notwendig geworden das Klimaschutzgesetz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalens vom 29. Januar 2013 anzupassen und diese neuen gesetzlichen Regelungen in Landesrecht zu überführen. Der Gesetzentwurf zur Neufassung...

Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen der Energiewende auf die Arbeitswelt. Dabei hebt sie die Bedeutung der betriebsbezogenen Akteure und der Sozialverträglichkeit für das Gelingen der Energiewende hervor. In den Strategien des Umgangs mit der Energiewende kommen Verhaltensmuster zur...

Wir analysieren ein CO2-Bepreisungsszenario für den Wärme- und Verkehrssektor. Dabei wird im Jahr 2020 ein CO2-Preis mit einem einheitlichen Steuersatz von 35 Euro je t CO2 eingeführt, der bis zum Jahr 2030 linear auf 180 Euro je t CO2 steigt. Dazu wird die Energiesteuer auf die Kraft- und...

Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5 to 2êC increase. Either target requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the literature on how policymakers can design climate...

Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5 to 2°C increase. Either target requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the literature on how policymakers can design climate...

"This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways and...

"Michael A. Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his "Beyond Capital." Whereas Karl Marx, in "Capital," treated capitalism as an organic system that reproduces its premises of capital and wage-labor, Lebowitz argues that the solidarity of workers in struggle points toward an organic system...

Over the past 30 years, Bangladesh has achieved significant economic and human development progress, and demonstrated impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects may be hampered by its population growth rate,...

Water scarcity and droughts events in Italy are occurring more frequently than in previous decades and are forecasted to be more severe in the future. Current water management will likely be no more suitable to face extreme events and more efficient instruments to balance future demand and...

The paper examines how a domestic institutional environment and third-party compliance assessment shape the effects and effectiveness of certification and labeling. Certification represents a form of transnational non-state market-driven governance of the environmental and social performance of...

Multi-criteria decision aiding (MCDA) is a process implying two distinctive actors (the client and the analyst) which aims at providing transparent and coherent support for complex decision situations, taking into account values of decision makers involved in a specific decision context. The...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cultural differences in female consumers’ motivation to purchase appearance-enhancing products, particularly anti-aging creams. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative research design to collect the data. Focus group...

This book offers an analysis of the "truth and justice" policies implemented in Chile since the 1990s. A central assumption is that human rights policies are a form of public policy and like other public policies they are the product of the political context from which they emerged....