Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present practical...

Die Umstellung der europäischen Industrie auf klimaneutrale Technologien schafft eine Vielzahl neuer Ressourcenbedürfnisse. Die Versorgungswege sind störanfällig und von zunehmender Verknappung bedroht. Mit dem Instrument der Strategischen Ressourcenpartnerschaft will die EU durch die...

We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular behavioral interventions for resource conservation. The first intervention is social comparison reports (SC), primarily providing consumers with information motivating behavioral change. The second intervention is real-time feedback...

Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. Durable things are both a hugely significant source of wealth and a constant source of struggle. The contributors argue...

Input subsidies in natural resource sectors are widely believed to deplete the natural capital on which these sectors depend. However, estimating the causal effect of subsidies on resource extraction has been stymied by identification and data challenges. China’s fishing fleet is the world’s...

Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. In today's economies, which rest on ever-larger stocks of infrastructures, buildings, machinery and household goods,...

"The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. The policies and research findings explained in this textbook are relevant to decisions made daily by individuals,...

"This book explores everyday politics that link to state territorialization via the natural resources development that has been taking place in the northwest region of Vietnam from Doi Moi in 1986 to the present."

As of April 2022, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) tallied 3,218 international investment treaties, of which 2,558 are in force. Investors in extractive industries (the oil, gas, and mining sectors) have used investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms...

This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of...

Natural resources such as carbon, water, and fish are increasingly managed with markets that require an initial allocation of property rights. In practice these rights are typically grandfathered based on historical use, but rights could be allocated any number of ways. Taking the perspective of...

Transitioning into a resource-efficient and low-carbon emission economy is one of the most critical demands in our modern society. Using TRUCOST environmental and Paris alignment data from the S&P Global Market Intelligence, this study examines the firm-level alignment between ESG scores and...

Der Beitrag befragt die Strategie eines suffizienten, das heißt maßvollen, Ressourcenverbrauchs auf ihre Bedeutung für eine nachhaltige Bioökonomie. Dabei wird Suffizienz sowohl im Vergleich zu, als auch in Kombination mit zwei weiteren Ressourcennutzungsstrategien, der ökonomischen...

"Through a series of African case studies, this book critically examines the complexities of recent resource discoveries of mineral, oil, and gas to determine whether Africa stands on the cusp of a post-resource curse era or if historical patterns of the resource paradox will continue to persist."

"As the world moves towards decarbonization and the race for clean energy technologies accelerates, states in the global south are increasingly called upon to supply critical minerals to fuel the transition. Business of the State details how mineral states might design effective growth...

"Designing Sustainable Prosperity (DSP) is a structured approach to transform regional economies that depend heavily on the extraction of finite natural resources such as metals, other minerals or fossil fuels into long-term sustainable economies that do not deplete those resources but recycle...

"Ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für alle, die die Zukunft aktiv mitgestalten wollen." Claudia KemfertInmitten zahlreicher Krisen und verschärfter gesellschaftlicher Debatten verlieren gerade viele Menschen die Hoffnung auf eine gute Zukunft. Wir scheinen vor einer riskanten Wahl zu stehen:...

Das Studium Generale ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Universität Heidelberg, die sich an alle Mitglieder der Universität und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit wendet. Die Veranstaltungen der Vorlesungsreihe stehen unter einem gemeinsamen Thema, das von Wissenschaftlern verschiedener...

Seit mehr als zehn Jahren werden die Problemlagen durch das Überschreiten der planetaren Grenzen zunehmend offensichtlicher. Sie verdeutlichen mehr denn je die Dringlichkeit und Notwendigkeit einer Großen Transformation, die strukturelle Veränderungen einschließt. Die Große Transformation,...

The Horn of Africa and the Sahel are among the most fragile regions in the world: poor, lacking basic infrastructure and state presence across much of their respective territories, and both form hotbeds of conflict and political instability compounded by climate change. This DIIS Working Paper...

Management für eine nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung -- Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und Unternehmensmanagement -- Umwelt in Gesellschaft, Politik und Recht -- Ökosysteme, Landnutzung und Biodiversität -- Umweltrelevante Systeme und Technologien -- Umweltinformationssysteme und -management --...

Following a court decision on July 10, 2020, the Turkish authorities revoked the status of Istanbul's 6th century iconic cathedral, the Hagia Sophia, turning the building from a museum into a mosque. Hagia Sophia is a historic site on UNESCO's World Heritage List that has served as a Roman...

Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in potential conflict over such resources. The likelihood of conflict depends on both the absolute and relative resource endowments of the parties. Resources fuel conflict by...