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Grundstrukturen eines nachhaltigen Wohlfahrtsmodells und Implikationen für die Politik

Meyer, Bernd; Ahlert, Gerd; Zieschank, Roland; … - 2012

gesellschaftlicher Nachhaltigkeit zu unterkomplex sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde innerhalb des Forschungsvorhabens ein erweitertes … Eckpunkte zur Entwicklung eines nachhaltigen Wohlfahrtskonzeptes liefert, das im Rahmen der Umweltpolitik als politisches … nachhaltigen Umweltpolitik werden Forderungen zur Positionierung an die Politik in sechs Punkten abgeleitet. …

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A Sequential Sustainability Transformation Model for Financial Institutions

Sancak, Ibrahim E. - 2021

This study configures a sustainability transformation model for financial institutions considering the EU and German sustainability perspectives. The study zooms in on sustainability transformation issues deploying Stouten, Rousseau, & Cremer’s Model of ten key evidence-based steps in managing...

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Should we sustain? : and if so, sustain what? ; consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto G.; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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Measuring Urban Sustainability Through Common Indicators and Peer City Benchmarking : Assessing Sustainability Assets for Performance Improvement and Economic and Environmental Progress in Delaware

Byrne, John - 2018

The report summarizes first-year research of a three-year study of pathways to urban sustainability. The research team selected the STAR Communities assessment model as the backbone for its analysis. This framework offers a menu-based system for enabling city managers and leaders to build paths...

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Environmental Policy Uncertainty and Innovation in Environmental Technologies

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan; Kalamova, Margarita M. - 2014

The effect of uncertainty related to environmental damages or technological change has on the optimal level of environmental policy stringency has been extensively analysed in the literature. However, empirical evidence on the innovation efforts of firms in the face of actual policy uncertainty...

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Political Economy of Climate Change Policy

Steves, Franklin; Teytelboym, Alexander - 2014

Anthropogenic climate change poses a threat to all people and governments, but the response to that threat varies enormously across countries. Some adopt politically costly and economically challenging climate change mitigation policies, while others deny that climate change is occurring. Why do...

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Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2017

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax curbs dirty production, which decreases pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to...

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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence

Biswas, Amit K. - 2013

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...

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Cournot, Pigou, and Ricardo Walk in a Bar – Unilateral Environmental Policy and Leakage With Market Power and Firm Heterogeneity

Baccianti, Claudio; Schenker, Oliver - 2021

Policymakers aiming for the unilateral regulation of transboundary pollutants, such as greenhouse gases, fear as a consequence rising emissions in non-regulating countries. This so-called pollution haven or carbon leakage effect is of particular concern in emission-intensive and trade-exposed...

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Corruption and Environmental Policy : An Alternative Perspective

Lapatinas, Thanassis - 2011

We construct an overlapping generations model in which agents live through two periods; childhood and adulthood. Each agent makes choices only as an adult, based on her utility that depends on her own consumption and the human capital and environmental quality endowed to her offspring. Entering...

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