A consistent mapping of all complex ramifications (including direct and indirect effects) of various greenhouse policies in an open institutional economy requires the use of a general equilibrium framework. From the existing set of available equilibrium models we have selected the so-called...

The European 20-20-20 goals, as well as national targets for the next decade, require a substantial increase in installed renewable capacity in Germany. While public support for such measures is high on an abstract level, the situation in the local context is often very different. Here, the...

The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...