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Sustainable development of the Prefecture of Kephalonia

Koroneos, C.J.; Xydis, G. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 4, pp. 243-257

An optimisation methodology is applied on the islands of Kephalonia and Ithaca (Prefecture of Kephalonia) in Greece, where various Renewable Energy Sources (RES) can be found and could be exploited to satisfy part of their energy needs. These resources are examined and a case study is performed...

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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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On sustainable management in the local governance of water: a prospective localised study

Belaidi, Nadia; Renaud-Hellier, Emmanuelle - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 2, pp. 180-198

In the face of the changes in the planet's natural resources and of their unequal distribution, it is becoming more urgent that contemporary societies oversee environmental assets in a global manner. Although international directives, when they are transposed into national laws, may set specific...

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Interest groups and efficient design of the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol

Michaelowa, Axel; Dutschke, Michael - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 1 (1998) 1, pp. 24-42

The implementation of activities aimed at mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions is more cost-efficient in developing countries than in most of the industrialised world. Nevertheless, efficient mitigation may have adverse effects on equity. A Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is therefore to...

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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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How to reallocate water rights when environmental goals conflict with existing entitlements

Thoyer, Sophie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 2, pp. 122-137

Emerging concerns for environmental flows translate into reforms that aim to preserve minimal flows in rivers. These policy measures have consequences for traditional right-holders: how to share between consumptive users the new scarcity created by the protection of instream flows? This paper...

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The all-electric house: past and future

Vale, Brenda; Vale, Robert - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 3, pp. 173-188

It is possible today, to construct a house of comparable cost to a conventional one that will gain all of its energy from renewable energy sources. However, there are very few examples of such houses. This paper argues that the slow take up of these ideas has a parallel with the development and...

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