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Agricultural water management in Bulgaria
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyzes evolution and efficiency of water governance in Bulgarian agriculture during post-communist transition and EU integration. First, it defines the water governance and the scope of analysis. Next, it presents the process of transformation of agricultural water governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531917
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Agro-Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684891
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Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Development of a vibrant and competitive services sector is a key characteristic of modern economies. In the developed world, services frequently account for two-thirds or three-quarters of all economic activity. The transition from agriculture through manufacturing to a services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278062
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Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Development of a vibrant and competitive services sector is a key characteristic of modern economies. In the developed world, services frequently account for two-thirds or three-quarters of all economic activity. The transition from agriculture through manufacturing to a services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278164
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Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Development of a vibrant and competitive services sector is a key characteristic of modern economies. In the developed world, services frequently account for two-thirds or three-quarters of all economic activity. The transition from agriculture through manufacturing to a services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278221
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The transformative effect of unscheduled generation by solar PV and wind generation on net electricity demand
Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study investigates the transformative effect of unscheduled solar PV and wind generation on electricity demand. The motivations for the study are twofold, the poor medium term predictions of electricity demand in the Australian National Electricity Market and the continued rise in peak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257708
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Canada 2030: An Agenda for Sustainable Development
Kindornay, Shannon; Standards, Centre for the Study of … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
Nations for the establishment of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, to be announced in September … this year, will replace the MDGs and serve as a universal framework for achieving sustainable development outcomes in all … sustainable development priorities, challenges and opportunities for implementation of the SDGs, and data availability for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185571
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Fact Versus Conjecture in the History of Industrial Waste Utilization
Rosen, Christine Meisner - In: Econ Journal Watch 9 (2012) 2, pp. 112-121
This piece is a response to Pierre Desrochers’ criticism of an article by me. This response challenges Desrochers’ argument that market forces compelled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manufacturers to recycle, voluntarily, the vast majority of their wastes. I argue that Desrochers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583790
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Large scale societal transitions in the past
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Hausknost, Daniel - WWWforEurope - 2014
WP 201 takes a historical perspective in analysing past systemic social-ecological transition processes. The research paper (MS 27) emerging from task 201.2 explores two major energy transitions of the past: the transition to the use of fossil fuels (e.g. starting with coal in the UK in the 17th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751640
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025716