Given the adverse efects of climate change (such as drought and fooding, damage to ecosystems and infrastructure, depletion of resources, deterioration of human health), society needs to transition to using sustainable systems of production and consumption. Regions and countries increasingly...

This paper studies the impact of environmental research networks on green exports by providing a unique contribution to the studies on the role of eco-open innovation for international competitiveness. Specifically, we adopt the technology gap model of international trade to study the impact of...

Angesichts der dramatischen ökologischen Krise ist es dringend notwendig, in der marxistischen Kritik des Kapitalismus stärker die Materialität der Akkumulation zu berücksichtigen. Der kanadische Soziologe Éric Pineault führt in seinem Werk verständlich in die neueren Forschungen zu den...

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) brought unprecedented challenges to public health authorities, healthcare workers, and scientific researchers around the globe. In the past two years, environmental scientists around the world conducted extensive amounts of research focusing on the...

The Russo-Ukraine War (RUW) has produced severe ecological, food security, economy, existence, and energy threats. This war could have a prolonged effect on the survival and existence of millions of Ukrainian refugees along with local flora, and fauna. Noticeably, the RUW is the biggest refugee...

The concept of metabolism, as applied to the interrelations between human society and the rest of nature, has been one of the most fruitful iterations of socioecological thought over the last few decades. Here we will examine specific orientations of metabolic thought commonly employed in the...

Ecological imperialism has created property law and economic systems that function to dispossess Indigenous peoples from their traditional lands, territories, and resources. An application of Henry George’s perspectives on economic efficiency and individual liberties suggests that exchanges...

Zu lange haben wir Menschen eine dem Wesen unserer Existenz widersprechende Zivilisation und Infrastruktur aufgebaut, warnt der weltweit führende Ökonom und Vordenker Jeremy Rifkin. Denn jetzt rebelliert die Hydrosphäre unseres Planeten und ist dabei, unsere Spezies und unsere Mitgeschöpfe...

We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that complement other factors of economic production. Aggregate ecosystem services are produced by combining several...

Klappentext: Die Wahrnehmung gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung durch Unternehmen wandelt sich mehr und mehr von einer optionalen zu einer verbindlichen Aufgabe. Dies gilt auch vor dem Hintergrund der seit 2017 geltenden CSR-Berichterstattungspflicht vornehmlich für die großen "Platzhirsche"....

The article presents the features of biology and ecology, the growth and development of various types of Cousinia in various environmental conditions of Uzbekistan. The distribution area covers mainly foothill and semi-desert and desert zones of Uzbekistan. Cousinia species are found in deserts,...

How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on...

Supporting ecological innovations and economic activities which lead to environmental protection is one of the important challenges to decision-makers. The above is related to the problem of specification of mechanisms resulting in introducing ecological innovations to the economy. The original...

Landwirtschaftliche Produkte sind in Deutschland und Europa so billig wie nie - zahlreiche Betriebe können trotz agrarischer Rationalisierung und Subventionierung wirtschaftlich kaum überleben; zugleich ist die konventionelle industrialisierte Landwirtschaft, der wir unsere sichere...

Mongolia’s mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a victim of the ‘resource curse’ or guilty of ‘resource nationalism’. In The State, Popular Mobilisation and...

Die vorliegende Dissertation identifiziert im Rückgriff auf sozialökologische Forschung und mittels der Analyse der spezifischen Problematisierungen von Phänomenen im Zusammenhang mit Wasser durch Institutionen und Akteure der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Sub-Sahara Afrika...

"Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to take into account the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Export-Led Growth Strategy and Government Quality -- Chapter 3. Circular Economy and Eco-Industrial Park -- Chapter 4. Entrepreneurial ecosystems -- Chapter 5. Conclusions.

Der vom 1968 gegründeten Club of Rome in Auftrag gegebene Bericht "Die Grenzen des Wachstums" (DVA,1972) markiert den Beginn der modernen Umweltbewegung. Auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage wurden mit Hilfe von Computern Modelle erstellt, die Szenarien bei ungebremsten Bevölkerungs- und...

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Entwicklung des Umweltgedankens über die Heimatschutz- und Lebensreformbewegung um 1900, die Umweltgesetzgebung im "Dritten Reich" bis hin zur globalen Bewusstseinswende um 1970 und der daraufhin erfolgten Herausbildung einer Umwelt-Bürgerbewegung.