The intrinsic complexity of the sustainability concept challenges research towards more sophisticated ways to model and assess the dimensions underlying it. However, currently adopted modeling techniques and indicators frameworks are not able to give an integrated assessment through the...

The US Green Building Council (USGBC) offers LEED certification for existing or new neighborhood developments that are in line with the new urbanism and smart growth concepts. We investigate whether LEED neighborhood certification 1) adds a premium to condo sales prices and 2) moderates the...

Water is not only vital for human life but also is a critical economic input. Climate change will likely exacerbate conflicts over the multiple uses of water in Latin America. Adopting a south-south perspective approach, this study compares direct water requirement patterns over time among...

As part of the sustainable energy transition in Germany, substantial investments into power grid infrastructure are planned. They are intended to provide flexibility to an electricity system increasingly relying on variable renewable energy sources, and on European interconnection. The...

The process to introduce the idea of land readjustment to a number of Asian developing countries-mainly sponsored by the Japanese government-has been one of the most significant international collaborations in urban planning in the twentieth century. When such processes succeed, they can replace...

In the article we propose to use recently developed method, namely the robust shared-input Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), to estimate the attractiveness of regions in the view of Sustainable Investing (SI). We apply DEA method over all regions of Russian Federation to identify a preferred...

To understand retail investor demand for sustainable assets, I estimate carbon footprints for 6,151 investors by linking their administrative consumption data to product-level carbon intensities. I show that compensation motives drive investments in low-emission assets and formally rule out...