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The economic costs of desertification: a first survey of some cases in Africa

Requier-Desjardins, Melanie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 2, pp. 199-209

This paper presents six studies made on the economic costs of desertification and land degradation in 11 African countries. It presents the main methods used for these macro valuations and their limits. It gives the results obtained and discuss on the concrete implications, for example, in terms...

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Trading wind in a hydro-dominated power pool system

Meibom, Peter; Svendsen, Torben; Sorensen, Bent - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1999) 4, pp. 458-483

In 1996, the Danish government launched an ambitious energy plan, Energy 21, describing a way to develop the energy sector in a more sustainable direction. Wind power plays an important role in the plan, and as a consequence there will be a very high penetration of wind energy in the electricity...

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Participatory modelling with an influence matrix and the calculation of whole-of-system sustainability values

Cole, Anthony; Allen, Will; Kilvington, Margaret; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 4, pp. 382-401

calculate whole-of-system sustainability-values used to: (i) guide system dynamic model development, (ii) build understanding … about the functional role of system factors, and (iii) contribute to method and theory development in a sustainability …) theoretical justification for the use of this tool in the estimation of whole-of-system sustainability values, and (iii) a …

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Generating, sharing and using science to improve and integrate policy

Gallopin, Gilberto C. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1999) 3, pp. 397-410

This paper discusses some of the new challenges that the quest for sustainable development poses to scientific research and the interface between science and policy. One of the issues fundamental to both science and policy is that of integration. Integration of scientific research requires a...

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Public policy and clean technology promotion. The synergy between environmental economics and evolutionary economics of technological change

Gonzalez, Pablo Del Rio - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 2, pp. 200-216

Obstacles to clean technology development, innovation and diffusion are not only related to the lack of internalisation of environmental externalities in production costs, as defended by traditional environmental economics. Empirical studies show that many other obstacles prevent these...

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Implementing participatory approaches in formulating regional forest policy

Ananda, Jayanath - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 4, pp. 398-409

Forest policy-makers increasingly recognise the importance of public participation in planning and policy-making endeavours. In many countries, public participation has been institutionalised into national forest policy. Despite the stated policy assurances, implementing participatory approaches...

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The production of environmental services in rural areas: institutional sectors and proximities

Aznar, Olivier; Perrier-Cornet, Philippe - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 3, pp. 257-272

This paper proposes an analysis of environmental services produced in rural areas and their links with the notions of organised proximity and geographical proximity. Among the different concepts of environmental services, we use that suggested by service economics to focus on the forms of...

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Conditional sustainability

Prager, Steven D.; Pierce, John T. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 3, pp. 227-245

throughput of natural capital, the greater the possibility for sustainability of both the economic and natural systems. While … analytical structure called conditional sustainability, this paper evaluates the nature of the changing relationship between …

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"Ecological-oriented consumption": a pluriactoral approach

Zaccai, Edwin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 1, pp. 26-39

We propose a model grouping the main factors that allow the success or failure of actions in ecological-oriented consumption to be assessed. Illustrated by some case studies, this model is then situated within a broader pluriactoral analysis, bringing together consumers, industries, and public...

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Economic efficiency issues with respect to recycling behaviour and waste management policy

Berglund, Christer - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 3, pp. 222-238

Like motherhood and apple pie, recycling is often thought of as an unquestionable 'good'. However, the economic, management and environmental issues involved are complex; there are numerous factors that need to be considered if recycling is to be efficient. The purpose of this paper is to...

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