Showing 1 - 10 of 102
such as forestry and forest-based industry that are expected to play an important role in the future steps oriented towards … innovation trends in the forestry and forest-based sectors by using a Q-methodology. This research addressed three groups of … respondents in Slovakia, whose task was to subjectively assess innovative trends in the forestry and forest-based sectors. Based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505338
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903486
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world's largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average reductions in external damages of around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377482
There is widespread concern that climate policy is moving too slowly and that decarbonization of economic development is coming too late for effective climate protection. We analyze three different effects that emerge endogenously during decarbonization and amplify current policies: growing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517478
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world's largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average reductions in external damages of around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637019
It has long been argued that the implementation of market-based environmental policy instruments such as environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325490
"Writings on sustainability transitions generally do not say much about the particularities of the behavior of individuals and organizations. This is somewhat surprising since an important problem which transition management needs to tackle is inertia or resistance to change. Transition policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410974
This study analyses the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies. It analyses the transition dynamics as the sector broadens its energy mix and changes its capital stock. This shift is found to be desirable from an environmental, geopolitical and economic perspective. Yet, it greatly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411001
The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411012