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Innovation and the environment

2000

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Emission baselines : estimating the unknown

2000

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Internalisation of external effects vs. decrease of externalities: from end-of-pipe technologies to cleaner technologies

Grimal, Laurent; Kephaliacos, Charilaos - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 3, pp. 239-256

We try, in this paper, to emphasise the role of market structure in the adoption of cleaner production technologies. The paper comes within the framework of the research carried out around the Porter hypothesis, according to which the integration of environmental constraints by firms can induce...

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Environmental policy in a complex world

Hinterberger, Friedrich; Luks, Fred; Stewen, Marcus; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 3, pp. 276-296

Most concepts of environmental policy do not consider adequately the complexity of nature and society. While neoclassical economics seems to fall into the trap of steering illusion, evolutionary economic concepts that consider societal complexity are too optimistic about the favours of...

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Globalised finance-dominated accumulation regime and sustainable development

Serfati, Claude - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 1, pp. 40-62

relations. Hence, we use the term "sustainable development" in a very broad sense, aimed at questioning how much and how far the …

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Market versus non-market values: where to draw the line?

Burgenmeier, Beat - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 1, pp. 1-15

The policy of environmental protection is based on a debate about values. This debate is shaped by a more fundamental issue concerning the boundaries between the public and the private spheres and between economic and social values as key references to environmental protection. This paper...

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Dreams of sustainability: beyond the antinomies of the global sustainability debate

Yanarella, Ernest J.; Bartilow, Horace - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 4, pp. 370-389

Sustainable development joined the global vocabulary of the 1990s as a catchword or rallying cry at international … deployment of those terms in the strategy of "green globalism" - a particular rendering of sustainable development put forth by … declarations put forth in recent years. Recognising that the achievement of local sustainable development must be linked with …

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Costs, benefits and sustainability in decision-making, with special reference to global warming

Ekins, Paul - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 4, pp. 315-333

Environmental decision-making, like economic decision-making, often involves trade-offs. Decision-makers need techniques with which to compare the costs and benefits involved. For some environmental problems, such as global warming, there are insuperable difficulties to making operational what...

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Sustainability impact assessments: a new comprehensive framework for raising the bar beyond existing environmental assessments

Muschett, F. Douglas - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 3, pp. 257-275

towards certain environmental elements of sustainable development and are limited in geographic scale of application. However …

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North-South aspects of the climate change issue: towards a negotiating theory and strategy for developing countries

Gupta, Joyeeta - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 2, pp. 115-135

This paper argues that because US ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been made dependent on developing country participation, and because other developed countries are unlikely to ratify until the US does so, the ball has been put...

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