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China’s Climate- and Energy-security Dilemma: Shaping a New Path of Economic Growth

Hallding, Karl; Han, Guoyi; Olsson, Marie - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 38 (2009) 3, pp. 119-134

China is undergoing modernization at a scale and speed the world has never witnessed. As climate change increasingly dominates the global agenda, China faces the challenge of shaping a new growth path in a climate-constrained world. The paper argues that China’s current climate and energy...

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Standards Applied to Water Use : An Attempt to Build up Dynamic Indicators

Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2008

Climate change, demographic concentration, new needs, sustainable development etc. are many examples of uncontrolled mutations in space and time, which impact on the degree of satisfaction of water needs in the world, and which call for a new analysis of the water issue. This new perspective, in...

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Exploring the concept of sustainable development through a simulation game

Blanchard, Odile; Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2010

The concept of sustainable development is used in everyday life by the general public, alongside researchers, institutions, and private companies. Nevertheless, its definition is far from being unequivocal. Clarifying the outline of the concept seems necessary. We have created a simulation game...

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How could the Bank of the South promote sustainable development and regional monetary integration in Latin America ?

Ponsot, Jean-François - HAL - 2009

Section 1 will present, as a starting point, the regional payments and unit of accounts agreements in Latin America: the Reciprocal Payments and Credits Agreement of the Latin American Integration Association or ALADI, the ‘Peso Andino” set up by the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR) and...

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Towards an evolutionary environmental regulation of capitalism : sustainable development 20 years after

Graz, Jean Christophe; Damian, Michel; Abbas, Mehdi - HAL - 2007

pragmatically deal with ecological crises. It explores how ensuing institutional forms inevitably take sustainability claims into …

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Re-examining the concept of sustainable development in light of climate change

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2009

This article provides a critical appraisal of the concept of sustainable development in light of climate change. As the latest climate change science indicates strong effects of anthropogenic activity on global warming, we review the pros and the cons of prioritizing development over...

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The Growth-Environment Trade-off: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovations

Andre'' Grimaud; Ricci, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...

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Transitional Dynamics Towards Sustainability: Reconsidering the EKC Hypothesis

Bella, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is one of the most debated economic issues. Despite its fascinating appeal for any policy maker, neither theoretical nor certain empirical evidence has been found to clean up all doubt. The aim of this paper is to present an economy where...

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A Modified Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sustainable Development Assessment Using Panel Data

Costantini, Valeria; Martini, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

wider concept of development rather than pure economic growth, including well-being aspects and sustainability of the … development process. Using a macroeconomic measure of sustainability such as the World Bank’s Genuine Saving and a measure of well … levels and natural resources consumption, verifying the sustainability of human development. A panel analysis for three years …

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The Stability of the Adjusted and Unadjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve

Becchetti, Leonardo; Auci, Sabrina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

In our paper, we test the stability of the unadjusted and adjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Our results provide evidence in favour of the significance of the adjusted EKC hypothesis in which the impact of per capita GDP on the intensity of CO2 emissions is evaluated conditionally to...

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