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Biodiversity conservation, loss of natural capital and interest rates

Tisdell, Clem - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2511-2515

It is argued that there is neither regular relationship between changes in the level of the market rate of interest and variations in the rate of biodiversity loss nor does such a regular relationship occur between alterations in the market rate of interest and changes in the rate of natural...

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Development and application of a new Forestation Index : global forestation patterns and drivers

Benedek, Zsófia; Fertő, Imre - 2013

cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … also introduced to distinguish between different forms of "environmentally valuable" new forests (that are expected to have … forestation and different types should be acknowledged - treatment of forests as a homogenous category is an oversimplification. …

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The greener, the happier? : the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being

Krekel, Christian; Kolbe, Jens; Wüstemann, Henry - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year...

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Écologie Politique vs Écologie Industrielle : Synergie des Fonctionnalités et Altérité des Stratégies Utiles à leurs Pilotages

Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The awareness of the scope of the environmental problems of the planet has gone global since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. Furthermore, analyzes of economy and ecology were deeply renewed in recent years. They are likely to provide practical...

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Unraveling the veil of fuzziness: A thick description of sustainability economics

Remig, Moritz C. - In: Ecological Economics 109 (2015) C, pp. 194-202

This article provides a thick description (Geertz, 1973) of sustainability economics. Baumgärtner and Quaas (2010a, b) have proposed as an alternative to ecological economics the new field of sustainability economics, which has triggered various replies. The purpose here is to order and to...

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STUDY REGARDING TO AGGRESSIONS ON THE ECOSYSTEM DANUBE DELTA – BLACK SEA AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES

IONESCU, Ion Gr. - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 4, pp. 81-90

Danube Delta has suffered damages of habitat and species loss caused by factors, including: construction of dams upstream have degraded obviously flooding regime; creation of agricultural and fishing enclosures which decreased the natural and original surfaces; extending artificial navigation...

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Le protocole de Kyoto et les mécanismes de développement propre (MDP) : quels impacts pour les pays en développement à l'horizon 2020--2050 ?

Hristova, Iva - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

The present thesis focuses on the definition of potential Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (or other successor mechanism) financial flows at the horizon of 2020 and 2050 and on their impact on recipient countries’ economies. The analysis is completed by an overview of the current CDM...

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Sustainable development in engineering: a review of principles and definition of a conceptual framework

Gagnon, Bruno; Leduc, Roland; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2008

This paper aims to provide engineers and the engineering community with a conceptual framework setting out the connections between engineering projects and the sustainable development of environmental and social systems. The main principles of sustainable development on the one hand and of...

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From a conventional to a sustainable engineering design process: different shades of sustainability

Gagnon, Bruno; Leduc, Roland; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2010

The challenge of realigning the present path of development on a sustainable trajectory is shared among all sectors of society, including engineering. To move towards a more sustainable practice of engineering, the design process needs to be modified in order for engineers to tackle the related...

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History, challenges and limitations of the "Corporate social responsibility" and "sustainable development" coupling

Capron, Michel; Quairel, Françoise - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

In Europe, the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD) are closely linked. Yet this approach to CSR has only taken shape in the last ten years and it is not shared by everyone. The objective of this article is to present the different stages of the CSR...

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