...). Institutional forces and actors' responses interact to shape, constrain, and/or facilitate the diffusion and even the imposition of business practices. Christoff and Eckersley (2011) asserted that certain institutional environments are more ambitious in terms of environmental policies than others, as seen...

... the world's environment. Surprisingly, empirical analysis and research specifically directed towards the wider world's commitment to overcoming environmental damage are relatively scarce. As a result, there is an existing knowledge gap in research connecting nations' international cooperation to address...

... to the environment can help policymakers, we ask: how self-reported happiness varies with the different levels of environmental conditions resulting from national policies? Additionally, as we consider socio-economics and political elements to be intrinsic to this debate, we also want to analyse the role of GDP...

... agriculture and the environment ”, available at:   https://orgprints.org/573/ (accessed   15 October 2018). Amoah , P. , Drechsel , P. , Abaidoo , R.C. and Ntow , W.J. (2006), “ Pesticide and pathogen contamination of vegetables in Ghana's urban markets ”, Archives of Environmental...

..., and environmental aspects (the three-pillars-model), and a way of describing shared aspirations for a decent life, combining economic development, social inclusion, and environmental integrity. That is, sustainable development is both an analytical theory and a normative framework, a way of understanding the world...

... of a formal and informal resource-dependent sector, where individuals can direct their work effort. It then assesses how declining mineral stocks influence labour mobility across sectors and environmental degradation. Findings – Decreasing mineral stocks induce a relocation of labour towards informal...

.... According to Libecap (1992 , p. 227): The role of property rights and its relationships to economic development and environment can be discussed within the broader economic literature of institutional, environmental and development economics. Bromley and Cernea (1989 , p. 5) define property rights...

... and the related issue of global de‐materialization. Both the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and intensity‐of‐use (IOU) hypotheses posit an “inverted‐U” relationship between economy and environment – that is, environmental damage worsens with income but only up to a point, beyond which conditions are gradually...

...Uffe Nielsen Taking departure in the premise that donor and recipient priorities differ with regard to the marginal costs and benefits associated with attacking global environmental externalities, and hence the relative importance attached to the global environment, this paper seeks to scrutinize...

... marking the interface between the natural environment and the human economy, and includes the totality of the economic system. In addition, there is an increasing number of “custom” approaches which physically quantify and relate human economy environmental requirements to supply and regeneration...

..., scientific and technological knowledge in many developing countries are limited; most of the work on the environment is coming from developed societies. In other words, unlike developed societies, developing countries face scarcity of wealth, including environmental wealth. Simply stated, to maintain...

.... In recent years, the central and local governments have been more sensitive to environmental issues and caused industry and business to spend more resources to reduce pollution. The relationship between economic growth and income inequality may change if the government uses the fiscal or tax policy...

...Udo E. Simonis Claus   Wepler . Europäische Umweltpolitik. Die Umweltunion als Chance für die materielle und institutionelle Weiterentwicklung der europäischen Integration [European Environmental Policy. Environmental Union as a Chance for the Material and Institutional Advancement...

.... Smith , A . (1950), in Cannan, E. (Ed.), 1776, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , Methuen , London . State Council (1994), China’s Agenda 21 – White Paper on China’s Population, Environment and Development in the 21st Century , China Environmental Science...

... of Alaska and the rest of the USA for losses of environmental amenity, including existence values. No prices were available to form a base for the compensation payments. In lieu, consumer surplus estimates – based on stated preference, non‐market valuation techniques – were used. Given that the environment...

... . The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy . Edward Elgar , 491 pp. , ISBN: ISBN: 1 85898 709 1 © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Economics Policy Environment Meanwhile Baumol and Oates’s work placed environmental policy analysis firmly in the context of general competitive...

... challenges started in the late 1960s, especially with Garret Hardin’s “The tragedy of the commons” (Hardin, 1968), the most cited article ever on structural environmental problems. More recent contributions to the debate include Ruben Mendez’s International Public Finance (Mendez, 1992) and Todd...

... not written for the purposes intended by the editor, an economist. So when we get beyond the editorial introduction, the hopes fade away that, somehow, hunter‐gatherers might teach us something “that can be applied to our present quest for environmental and social equality”. Although the editor condemns...

... recognise are legitimate occasions for government intervention (p. 179). Much of the work on the environmental costs of energy use concerns global warming, but the recent literature has stressed that energy production and transportation, as well as consumption, is likely to produce negative...

... and resource use which generally leads to negative environmental consequences as against the claims for environmental conservation. Another way of looking at this is that the freedom of the owners of private property who exploit the natural environment should take precedence over the freedom of the owners...