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Urban agenda and urban sustainability strategies : taking stock of policy implementation and policy discussion

Barnebeck, Stephanie; Kalff, Yannick - 2015

Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...

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Brazilian maritime GDP, social, economic and environmental motivations for its measurement and monitoring

Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Hillebrand, Giovanni Roriz Lyra - 2022

The interaction between the sea and the economy gives this environment enormous strategic importance. The forms of economic exploitation are diverse and include sectors such as energy, fishing, tourism, transportation, biotechnology, and shipbuilding. For Brazil, country with an extensive...

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Large scale societal transitions in the past

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Hausknost, Daniel - 2013

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...

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Consequences of future climate policy : regional economies, financial markets, and the direction of innovation

Schickfus, Marie-Theres von - 2021

With the Paris Agreement of 2016, 189 nations signed a legally binding document to keep global warming below 2 C, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C. It was recognized that this would reduce climate change impacts substantially. All signatories submitted "Intended...

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour : An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 2015

The political and scientific debate related to a sustainable development has stressed above all the importance of … environmental burden or contribute to ecologically specified sustainable targets. During the past 20 years, innovation has taken …. However, the demanding criteria for sustainable development cannot be met by this alone. In future it will therefore be …

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Pollution Regulation and the Efficiency Gains from Technological Innovation

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2014

Previous studies suggest a preference for emissions taxes over (non-auctioned) emissions permits and performance standards based on their potential for promoting technological innovation. We present simulation results that cast some doubt on the empirical importance of this assertion: the...

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Governance of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) in Bulgaria

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2022

Unlike in many other countries, in Bulgaria, there is no comprehensive analysis of the governance, state, efficiency and evolution of the system of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS). This chapter presents the results of a large-scale study on the governance, efficiency, and...

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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2006

This survey reviews the empirical literature on the impact of environmental policy instruments on the rate and direction of technological change. The survey is explicitly focused on the empirical identification of the hypothesis to expect a stronger impact from market-based incentives than from...

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The Role of Standards in Eco-Innovation : Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2013

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...

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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013

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