Die Beitrittsverhandlungen haben in bezug auf den Umweltschutz ein neues Signal gesetzt. Im Beitrittsvertrag erkennt die EU explizit die höheren Umweltstandards Österreichs und auch der anderen Beitrittswerber an und kommt dem Wunsch, das höhere Schutzniveau beizubehalten durch...

From an ecological point of view, economic instruments are to be preferred to other instruments of environmental policy, the command and control regulations in particular, for several reasons: They are more cost efficient in the short term in a static sense. While command and control regulations...

At the turn of the last decade a paradigm change in environmental policies became apparent. At the end of the 1970s and at the beginning of the 1980s, during the first environmental revolution, environmental problems were seen as a potential conflict between economic growth and the quality of...

The study on the environment industry in Austria, based on primary statistics on the production of environmental goods and services, covers the core segments of the environment industry and comprises end-of-pipe technologies as well as essential parts of clean technologies and products. By...