Unter den Sonderorganisationen der UNO gehört die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation IAOeher zu den kleinen Organisationen. Zwar ist ihre Mitgliedschaft potenziell universal (2000hatte die IAO 175 Mitgliedsstaaten), doch zählt der Stab der Organisation, das InternationaleArbeitsamt, nicht mehr...

Existing evidence showed that:- local environmental problems are widespread but worse in low-income areas- there is little evidence that wider environmental concerns are less in low-incomecommunities- residents in low-income areas often face different barriers and incentives for action fromthose...

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...

Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to different people. Typically it is the vision of the developed North that has dominated. This paper describes some of the results of a long-term research project based in Kogi...

The chapter is devoted to the urgent problem of forecasting conflicts on the basis of economics and mathematical models. A new approach is proposed for research of existing and potential international conflicts at the global and local levels, based on economic, social, demographic,...

In this paper we consider the possibility of using ‘green’ welfare change measures as the basis for cost-benefit analysis of new projects. Such green welfare change measures look very similar to what one would expect a cost-benefit analysis of the entire economy to look like. It is shown...

The article analyses the role of environmental change within the narrations of the Ewe-diaspora, a sub-group of the Ghanaian diaspora. It focusses on the role and the impact of the diaspora when it comes to coping with environmental change at the place of origin. It highlights the nexus with...

I draw primarily on two recent works to describe recent and ongoing changes in the business environment and in the structure of U.S. companies. Based on these changes, I describe what I see as action implications for executives and scientists, especially organization scientists. The...