Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...

This paper critically examines the potential movement from accounting of war to accounting of peace. The 20th century capitalist economy developed in the war, and also stimulated the war. In contradiction with the current state of facts, some economists such as Vandana Shiva promote the idea of...

Population growth and greater social pressure in relation to sustainability will require greater agricultural production with less environmental impact. This research aims to evaluate the process of technological innovation and integrated systems of sustainable production. The multi-case study...

Sustainability management often requires voluntary initiatives beyond legal regulations. Hereby, multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) gain importance. Despite the actual high occurrence of these initiatives, little information concerning the stakeholders' negotiation behaviour in MSIs exists. In...

Das Update 2016 des EU-Nachhaltigkeitsrankings der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft und des Forschungszentrums Generationenverträge der Universität Freiburg analysiert die Gesamtverschuldung der EU-Mitgliedsländer, deren Entwicklung im Vergleich zum Vorjahr und die langfristige Entwicklung der...

Sustainable business impact is growing within the field of impact assessment, however, the field, specifically in regard to Entrepreneurship, would benefit from theory based on comparisons of external and internal impacts of environmental and social innovation. This exploratory study bridges...

Flooding events can affect businesses close to rivers, lakes or coasts. This paper provides a partial equilibrium model which helps to understand the optimal location choice for a firm in flood risk areas and its investment strategies. How often, when and how much are firms willing to invest in...

Sustainability and efficiency are potentially conflicting social objectives in natural resource management. We propose a market mechanism to allocate use rights over a stochastic resource to private managers. The mechanism endogenously determines the maximal tenure length guaranteeing that the...

Environmental assessment and pollution protection are important concerns in modern business and policy. Consumers are interested in corporate efforts on not only their products but also environmental protections and pollution preventions. To attain a high level of sustainability (i.e., economic...

Economic research tends to focus on a reduced set of crops, leaving a vast array of crops under-researched. However, these 'marginal crops' have typically been farmed for centuries and are better suited for the local environment in which they are grown than crops prioritized within existing...

We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms' beliefs and consumers' anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy and...

Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...

Flooding events can affect businesses close to rivers, lakes or coasts. This paper provides a partial equilibrium model which helps to understand the optimal location choice for a firm in flood risk areas and its investment strategies. How often, when and how much are firms willing to invest in...

We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms’ beliefs and consumers’ anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy...

Sustainability and efficiency are potentially conflicting social objectives in natural resource management. We propose a market mechanism to allocate use rights over a stochastic resource to private managers. The mechanism endogenously determines the maximal tenure length guaranteeing that the...

We elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct and real setup that allows us to separate genuine interest in animal welfare from confounding factors like advertisement, replacement arguments or image concerns. Subjects choose between intensive farming and organic living...

Die Ausgestaltung der Waldklimapolitik in Deutschland ist mit zahlreichen Interessenskonflikten verbunden und bedarf Entscheidungshilfen zu derzeitigen und künftigen Handlungsoptionen. Eine Entscheidungsgrundlage für Handlungsoptionen zur zukünftigen Waldbehandlung und Holzverwendung sind die...

Sustainability management often requires voluntary initiatives beyond legal regulations. Hereby, multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) gain importance. Despite the actual high occurrence of these initiatives, little information concerning the stakeholders' negotiation behaviour in MSIs exists. In...

Boom and Bust: Local strategy for big events is the result of a collective effort at the University of Alberta to better understand the dramatic ups and downs which too often characterize western Canadian communities. From the Canadian analysis stems this book, which can be helpful in any...

Die Sicherung einer zukunftsfähigen Wirtschaftsstruktur bedarf kontinuierlicher Anpassung an neue immer komplexere Herausforderungen sowie Transitionen in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz. Klassische Wirtschaftsförderung als reines Angebot eines traditionellen Dienstleistungsportfolios...

Die Ausgestaltung der Waldklimapolitik in Deutschland ist mit zahlreichen Interessenskonflikten verbunden und bedarf Entscheidungshilfen zu derzeitigen und künftigen Handlungsoptionen. Eine Entscheidungsgrundlage für Handlungsoptionen zur zukünftigen Waldbehandlung und Holzver-wendung sind...

We elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct and real setup that allows us to separate genuine interest in animal welfare from confounding factors like advertisement, replacement arguments or image concerns. Subjects choose between intensive farming and organic living...

Enterprise risk management (ERM) is an integrated approach to manage the risks of companies. Despite the wide adoption of ERM into companies' organizational processes, there are neither clear standards for ERM nor ground based theories about the outcome of it. This paper gives an overview of...

The paper is an analysis based on statistical indicators for three European economies with highly developed tourism sectors. France, Italy and Spain are models of growth and development through tourism, which is possible due to their cultural, historical and artistic richness. Although they are...

Auch wenn die europäischen Finanzen und die Haushaltslage der EU-Mitgliedstaaten nicht mehr das beherrschende Thema in der medialen Berichterstattung darstellen, darf dies nicht dazu verleiten anzunehmen, dass die Probleme der öffentlichen Finanzen in der Europäischen Union gelöst seien. Die...

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit gewinnt bei der Herstellung und Vermarktung von Lebensmitteln national sowie international immer mehr an Bedeutung. Molkereien im In- und Ausland haben bereits eine Reihe von Aktivitäten in Bezug auf eine an Nachhaltigkeit orientierte Wirtschaftsweise umgesetzt. Dies...

Urban sprawl and economic development brought new ways of correlating the efficiency and performance, and green buildings are spreading at higher levels. In this normative study, we discuss specific issues in how valuation methods could be considered when assessing green buildings. The real...

This paper examines implications of limits to substitution for estimating substitutability between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and for social discounting. Based on a model that accounts for a subsistence requirement in the consumption of ecosystem services, we provide empirical...

Understanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty. This research investigates how political economy affects biomass and hydroelectricity development in that...

Zu erwarten sind wachsende Engpässe bei qualifiziertem und erfahrenem Personal in Kindertageseinrichtungen, was die Träger vor große Herausforderungen stellt. Im Fokus der Study steht daher die Frage, wie geeignete personalwirtschaftliche Konzepte gestaltet werden können, um den...

We analyse vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador from a long-run perspective, as well as during and after the commodities boom. Using various data sources we show that Ecuador has made significant progress in reducing inequality, particularly since 2000. However, inequality has started...

This study aimed to investigate the nature of energy applied in hotel industry in Macedonia. It explored the indicators for resources application in three, four and five star hotels. The data were collected by means of an online survey conducted among 45 managers and department supervisors. It...

Energy efficiency is one of the key crossroads between energy, climate and economic issues. In fact, it represents one of the most cost effective ways to enhance security of energy supply, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and to enhance economic competitiveness at one fell swoop. This...

Das Konzept der Bioökonomie hat zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Transformation zur Bioökonomie stellt die nachhaltige Nutzung von Böden vor neue Herausforderungen. Gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmungen müssen verstärkt bei der Entwicklung von Transformationsstrategien berücksichtigt werden....