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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …

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Microfinance, commercialisation and ethics

Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2008

This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking business. The background of this stunning success is the...

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Kyoto-Protokoll, Wettbewerb und WTO-Handelssystem

Shin, Soonjae - 2003

Es wird häufig angenommen, dass nationale und grenzüberschreitende Klimapolitik, die aufgrund des Kyoto-Protokolls in den Industriestaaten eingeführt wird, durch die Einschränkung der Nutzung fossiler Energieträger ökonomische Kosten verursacht. Damit kann es zwischen den...

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A new climate policy framework for post 2012

Selke, Jan-Welf; Brandt, Hubertus - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 1, pp. 35-38

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'Natural' disaster, conflict and aid allocation

Rodella-Boitreaud, Aude-Sophie; Wagner, Natascha - 2011

concomitance between so-called 'natural' hazard/disaster and conflict situations. Over 150 natural disasters have occurred … alongside complex political crises in the past seven years alone. Yet, the fields of conflict and disaster research remain … conflict and disaster. We exploit a large panel dataset that includes official development aid, and information about the …

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Ocean iron fertilization: why further research is needed

Güssow, Kerstin; Oschlies, Andreas; Proelss, Alexander; … - 2009

Despite large uncertainties in the fertilization efficiency, natural iron fertilization studies and some of the purposeful iron enrichment studies have demonstrated that Southern Ocean iron fertilization can lead to a significant export of carbon from the sea surface to the ocean interior. From...

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Climate Policy Options and the World Trade Organization

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-29, pp. 1-15

principles of the world trading system set forth in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade …

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Reforming EU car labels: How to achieve consumer-friendly transparency?

Badenhoop, Nikolai; Riedel, Max - 2024

We examine the EU car labelling regime for CO2 emissions and fuel efficiency under Directive 1999/94/EC and document strongly diverging national labelling methodologies. Our contribution is fourfold. First, we distil the most relevant economic and behavioural research findings on car labelling....

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The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty: An ordonomic approach to global justice

Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2008

Drawing on an ordonomic approach, this paper argues that a theory of global justice should incorporate as a pivotal cornerstone a theory of corporate citizenship which constructively addresses business firms as agents of social value creation. We argue that, instead of relying exclusively on...

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Fixing Failed States: an unconventional agenda based on lessons learned from the afghan fiasco

Michailof, Serge - 2010

For more than forty years, developing countries have experienced a series of wars and armed conflicts. These have essentially been internal conflicts like in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Colombia, although they have had a strong tendency to involve neighboring countries.Many of these...

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