"In diesem essential beschreiben Bernd Hansjürgens und Urs Moesenfechtel die Dringlichkeit eines Perspektivenwechsels bei unserem Umgang mit der Natur. Sie schlagen dazu eine ökonomische Inwertsetzung von Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen auf, welche Handlungsmöglichkeiten dieser Ansatz dem Naturschutz eröffnet."
"Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there is neither sufficient knowledge as to what extent climate change poses risks to societies and companies, nor about adequate strategies to cope with these risks. Bringing together an international group of scholars from environmental economics, political science and ..."
"Die europäische Chemikalienregulierung steht auf dem Prüfstand. Mit dem kontrovers diskutierten REACH-System soll einerseits ein Beitrag zu einem verbesserten Gesundheits-, Umwelt- und Verbraucherschutz geleistet werden, andererseits sollen Innovationen in den europäischen Volkswirtschaften nicht behindert werden, um wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Wohlstand zu ermöglichen. Der vorliegende Band analysiert die ..."
"... Die Kenntnis des Partikularrechts nahm mit seiner zunehmenden
Verschriftlichung und wissenschaftlichen Bearbeitung stetig zu. ... 182 Ingrid
Scheurmann: „Wezlarische Beiträge zu einer pragmatischen allgemeinen
Rechtsgelehrsamkeit ."
"Permit trading is an environmental policy instrument that has received increasing levels of attention over recent years. Coming from the field of air quality management, with the European CO2 emissions trading system being the most prominent example, it enters new fields of application, such as land use policy and biodiversity protection, water quality and water quantity trading. This book gives an overview of these recent developments ..."
"This book addresses the complexity of urbanization, impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile, with a special focus on the most pressing issues of natural hazards, water and energy supply. The book exemplifies a conceptual approach for the development of adaptation measures, their evaluation and implementation in a decision support framework at the science-policy interface. ..."
Emissions Trading for Climate Policy(1st Edition) US and European Perspectives von BerndHansjürgens Paperback, 260 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-14204-5, ISBN: 0-521-14204-0
"The 1997 Kyoto Conference introduced emissions trading as a new policy instrument for climate protection. This book's contributions from the fields of economics, political science and law analyze theoretical aspects of regulatory instruments for climate policy, provide an overview of U.S. experience with market-based instruments, draw lessons from existing trading schemes for the control of greenhouse gases, and discuss options for emi ..."
"Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner. It does not only allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues like other marked based environmental policy instruments. Furthermore it changes the code by which environmental policy steers management decisions from hierarchical to monetary information. But is this change transmitted and mirrored in management decision ..."
"Permit trading is an environmental policy instrument that has received increasing levels of attention over recent years. Coming from the field of air quality management, with the European CO2 emissions trading system being the most prominent example, it enters new fields of application, such as land use policy and biodiversity protection, water quality and water quantity trading. This book gives an overview o ..."
"The role of soils for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is multifarious. Soils are the essential basis for food and biomass provision in support of food security (SDG 2) and energy security (SDG 7). Soil carbon sequestration is paramount for climate action (SDG 13). Soil-mediated water purification and retention, nutrient and matter cycling, and soils habitat functions are essential for maintaining ecosystem services and biodi ..."
"Acknowledgement. The central motivation for this book is the observation that
megacities are both places of opportunities and of risks. ... The use of resources
can be organized much more efficient and effective compared to rural areas. But
megacities are ... It sketches a comprehensive picture of the future challenges
confronting the Risk Habitat Megacity. And it highlights that ... Overall this
comprehensive approach makes the co ..."
"Industry literature was also reviewed, and open-ended interviews were
conducted with industry experts (the “big four” auditing firms, Canadian banking
executives and portfolio managers, Canadian Standards Association [overseer of
... Sold its corporate credit card business to US Bank Canada (2006) National
Bank Le ́vesque Beaubien (securities), General Trust of Canada A1/A Largely
focused on Que ́bec Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Roya ..."
"Permit trading is an environmental policy instrument that has received increasing levels of attention over recent years. Coming from the field of air quality management, with the European CO2 emissions trading system being the most prominent example, it enters new fields of application, such as land use policy and biodiversity protection, water quality and water quantity trading. This book gives an overview of these recent developments ..."
"... companies to climate change, placing special emphasis on companies'
mitigation strategies and measures. Following this introductory chapter 1, Part I –
Climate change risks and risk assessment consists of six contributions:3 (2) Peter
Höppe and Tobias Grimm analyze to what extent the occurrence of rising natural
catastrophes is caused by climate change. They show that natural catastrophes
and damages have been increasing dramat ..."
Emissions trading [electronic resource]: institutional design, decision making and corporate strategies von Ralf Antes, BerndHansjürgens, Peter Letmathe 270 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Springer Science & Business Media ISBN-13: 978-0-387-73653-2, ISBN: 0-387-73653-0
"Institutional Design, Decision Making and Corporate Strategies Ralf Antes, Bernd
Hansjürgens, Peter Letmathe. Definition of liquidity: As Rudolph and Röhrl (1997,
p. 177) state, there is no unanimous use of the term liquidity; however, a common
basic understanding has developed (ibid.). I use the definition of liquidity by (
Schwartz 1991, p. 127): “Liquidity refers to the ability of individuals to trade
quickly at prices that are r ..."
"... policy instruments, flexibility Acknowledgement: I would like to thank Pekka
Pirilä, Peter Letmathe, Ilkka Keppo and Frank Gagelmann for valuable comments
. All remaining errors are those of the author. The financial support of National
Technology Agency of Finland and the Environment Pool of the Finnish Energy
Industries Federation is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed in this
paper are those of the author and do not ..."
"Gruenspecht, H. K., and Stavins, R. N. 2002. “New source review under the ... Hockenstein, J. B., Stavins, R. N., and Whitehead, B. W. 1997. “Creating the next generation of ... Jung, C., Krutilla, K., and Boyd, R. 1996. “Incentives for advanced ..."
"Das Äquivalenzprinzip, auch Nutzen-, Vorteils- oder Interessenprinzip (benefit principle) genannt, besagt, daß die Staatsbürger gemäß dem erhaltenen Nutzen, dem realisierten Vorteil oder dem erreichten Grad an Interessenbefriedigung ..."