Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present practical...

Input subsidies in natural resource sectors are widely believed to deplete the natural capital on which these sectors depend. However, estimating the causal effect of subsidies on resource extraction has been stymied by identification and data challenges. China’s fishing fleet is the world’s...

Die Umstellung der europäischen Industrie auf klimaneutrale Technologien schafft eine Vielzahl neuer Ressourcenbedürfnisse. Die Versorgungswege sind störanfällig und von zunehmender Verknappung bedroht. Mit dem Instrument der Strategischen Ressourcenpartnerschaft will die EU durch die...

Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. In today's economies, which rest on ever-larger stocks of infrastructures, buildings, machinery and household goods,...

We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular behavioral interventions for resource conservation. The first intervention is social comparison reports (SC), primarily providing consumers with information motivating behavioral change. The second intervention is real-time feedback...