Die größten Umweltprobleme der Gegenwart besitzen ausnahmslos eine internationale Dimension. Die Ausdünnung der Ozonschicht, die globale Erwärmung, die Zerstörung der Tropenwälder oder die Meeresverschmutzung machen nicht vor nationalen Grenzen halt. Da auf internationaler Ebene keine...

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...